Same point as the post below, only now looking at 1960 to present. I let in more non-candy-bars this time since chocolate/nut/etc. candies w...

I went to the supermarket to look for stuff I might buy later for trick-or-treaters and send to my nephew, and noticed there haven't bee...

Those of us who grew up in trick-or-treating times took for granted how much trust and hospitality it took at the community level for the ri...

Stumbled on this collection of pictures from malls across America, around 1989-'90. Look how many old people there are. And I don't...

Scrolling through your Facebook feed is more boring than wading through emails back in the day, which at least had some point. So imagine t...

What makes one zeitgeist different from another is mostly due to where each society was in the violence cycle. Was the violence rate at its ...

Here's the trend over time for the percent of books in Google's digital library (American English) that have the phrase "Pearl...

One of those things that Everyone Knows Causes Violence is income equality, a slightly more highbrow version of the "poverty causes cri...

If young people build trust, it is through shared rites of passage . Some of these activities have existed for ages, although new ones seem ...