by david allan van nostrand | Dec 16, 2019 | Human Behavior, Items in the News, Young moderns
We were the first to have a gen-name. Now everyone has one and some have two. Regardless of what they call themselves, our term for the latest group at front and center of deciding everything for everybody else is Young Moderns. Nitpickers will say hey, what about the...
by david allan van nostrand | Dec 9, 2019 | Human Behavior, Young moderns
One by one, hundreds of college students were asked to be alone with their thoughts for 15 minutes – no phones, no books, no pens for doodling – nothing. They were asked only to stay awake, be quiet, and sit idly in their seats. Before beginning, students...
by david allan van nostrand | Nov 25, 2019 | Human Behavior, Misinformation traps
Three international executives recently listened with great interest as a man complained long and loud about how cellphone numbers should never be reissued. He had just bought a new mobile and was angry because he kept getting annoying calls for someone else. He was...
by david allan van nostrand | Nov 4, 2019 | Fads, Human Behavior
You dimwit, nitwit, halfwit, ignoramus, dolt, imbecile, moron, nincompoop, numskull, pinhead, simpleton, birdbrain, lame-brain!For many generations, beating and humiliation were two of the tools schoolteachers used to keep order. Children who misbehaved would get...
by david allan van nostrand | Oct 28, 2019 | Human Behavior, Items in the News
This is the third anniversary of LetsTakeACloserLook.com. Here is where I’ve written and published more than 150 articles, usually on the topic of misinformation and often involving items in the news. To those of you who have been loyal readers all along...
by david allan van nostrand | Oct 14, 2019 | Fads, Human Behavior
The great California gold rush began when sawmill builders found gold in a streambed in 1848. Headlines in newspapers around the world told tall tales of gold lying on the ground just waiting to be picked up. Hundreds of thousands of gullible fortune seekers came by...
