Has this ever happened to you? You’re going about your day—running errands, grocery shopping, taking care of yard work—when you suddenly see flashing lights in your eye that take you by surprise. You know it wasn’t a camera flash or a strike of lightning, but you’re not sure how...
Retiring in your mid-60s still makes sense for many people. At this point, you are old enough to have hopefully amassed sizable savings, but you are still young enough to enjoy active pursuits such as travel. Plus, Medicare kicks in at age 65, which eliminates the need to work for healt...
What was accommodation like in HK? I understand it was very overcrowded, especially in tenements for refugees. It appears that white people had far nicer homes. What was it like for Chinese people who had money? What was the entertainment like in the late 50s and early 60s? I’m in my ...
What was accommodation like in HK? I understand it was very overcrowded, especially in tenements for refugees. It appears that white people had far nicer homes. What was it like for Chinese people who had money? What was the entertainment like in the late 50s and early 60s? I’m in my ...
(That’s why we have medical trials.) This kind of reasoning involves imagination: we need to be able to imagine what will happen if we do X, as well as if we don’t do X. When used correctly, data allows us to infer something about the future based on what happened in the past...
(John was also uninterested in a conventional life), and culminated in “simultaneous orgasm.” Within days, Barbara moved in; within a month, they were married—to make things easier on Barbara (after all, the sexual revolution hadn’t happened yet, and living in sin brought social shame)...
Enough time for us to get closer to the towers, and once we got close, we wouldn’t have stopped until we were directly at the scene. I’ve wondered what would have happened, what the sound would have been like, whether I would have reacted in time and run in the right direction,...
BRELAND:Country music is undeniably influenced by Black musicians and Black culture, as with all American musical genres. But from the beginning of country music's popularization, there has been a concerted effort to separate it from its Black roots. In the '50s and '60s, count...
Sachs:Two things happened. One is I started to explore a bunch of films that were made in the ’60s and ’70s that had done that successfully, that were very intimate and simple but also had cuts and ellipses and movement and changes of scenery. And [...
Those who study the life of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. know what happened next. King said he was startled that night to hear a voice, urging him to stand up for justice and truth. It was the first time that he’d experienced such a vivid encounter with the Divine. ...