by david allan van nostrand | Dec 23, 2019 | Items in the News, Young moderns
Young Moderns have had it with the dreary old decorations of the past and think it’s time to move on. One great way to make your Christmas yard display stand out is by featuring an inflatable Hidden Valley Ranch bottle, a Taco Bell sauce packet, and a giant bag of...
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 | Oct 7, 2019 | Misinformation traps, Voodoo Statistics, Young moderns
You know how you hear one story that makes a lot of sense and then you hear another that also makes a lot of sense but you’re bothered because taken together they don’t make any sense at all? Me, too. I examine research studies than most, and because they have...