The Marilyn Manson rib cage removal story and the Gere gerbil tale reflected America’s moral panic about alternative culture. People targeted public figures who challenged social norms. These fabricated stories validated society’s concerns about the moral decline that controversial celebrities like Manso...
Yet money is not the only source of motivation2. In their work, people also respond to psychological motivators, such as social norms, praise, self-actualization, desire to reciprocate and fear of social rejection3. A large body of research has shown that both monetary and non-monetary incent...
The city landscape across America reveals a startling fact: in many places, there’s more room for cars than for people. From Seattle to Des Moines, the concrete sprawl of these lots often surpasses the space set aside for housing. This phenomenon isn’t just an urban planner’s nightmare;...
The all-seeing intelligence agents of Sinterklaas aren't green elves, as they are in America, but full grown black men called Black Pete (Zwarte Piet). They all have the same name but operate in hierarchy. The chief of the Black Petes is called Peter Boss (Pieterbaas), and carries a ...
There was also a lot of variation in collectivism across Central Asia. Like Southeast Asia, Central Asia includes some highly collectivistic (Bangladesh) and some highly individualistic (Macau) nations. South America showed the least amount of within-region variation. Table 6. Geopolitical variation ...
“cuckold porn” found a healthy niche market on the internet. Cuckold porn features, as you might expect, scenarios where a man is humiliated by his wife having sex with another man. And, putting America’s racist id fully on display, often the man she is having sex with is black—...
At the end of the day, lives that are full with good things are also richer. This is not to say that people who drink are bad or that they cannot function, but a person’s quality of life correlates with how they spend their time. If someone drinks a lot in order to be social, ...
Chris Hayes: Yes. And I think also, just to your point about social isolation being, I mean, a lot of people were alone. Like, I was with my family during that period. But a lot of people were alone, a lot of people in America living alone. In fact, Eric Klinenberg has ...
from 1888 to 1942 by Gannet & Morris out of Augusta, Maine. Primarily a means to advertise Gannet’sGiant Oxien, a snake oil cure-all,Comfortincreased its circulation ten-fold in the first six years of publication, making it the first magazine in America to surpass one million subscribers....
‘Acropolis’ maintains the Greek association. While this mixture of ancient European and Oriental objects may not feel unnatural in a Mediterranean setting, it does all the more so in R’lyeh, located in the Pacific Ocean between New Zealand and South America. Turning the description even more...