Even long generations like Baby Boomers and Generation X tend to have sub-divisions within them. The earlier Boomers were the ones who took ...

You couldn't pick a worse time to try to socialize in a night club, bar, house party, etc., than the Saturday around Halloween, when eve...

Having gone over the motivation last week, let's look at when great actors were born, and so what kind of world they came of age in. I...

(I'm chopping this up into a short series of posts. In the next couple days I'll present and analyze some data. Today is just the mo...

The post below on changing car shapes during rising vs. falling-crime times got me thinking about design in general. Later I'll write up...

There is almost no picture of pre-1950 life in the popular understanding, causing us to be blind to the cyclical nature of society. In an ea...

That's a question in the comments to the post below. I take it to mean which songs embody the general feeling in the air. Well the '...

The other day I heard that song for the first time in over 20 years, and haven't been able to get it out of my head since! You try to af...

One of the biggest changes I've noticed in my own lifetime is the shift away from more slender females and toward more fleshy ones. We s...