Americans feel more pressure from society and social media to have an expensive engagement than from their own inner circles, according to new research. A survey of 2,000 U.S. adults in serious relationships, engaged or married, revealed that 51% feel pressure from society as a whole, and another 49% feel the same pressure from social … Read more
As it turns out, our personalities are, in fact, shaped by the environments we grow up in, and Nevada, New York, South Dakota, and Texas contain the highest percentages of those in possession of “dark personality traits.” A recent study conducted by Ingo Zettler, Lau Lilleholt, Benjamin E. Hilbig, Morten Moshagen, and Martina Bader at … Read more
A 60-year-old woman has revealed how she was once booed in the street for dating a man 20 years her junior. Anne, from Melbourne, was married to a man who she’d been involved with for two decades before the couple decided to call it quits. At the age of 39, when the marriage broke down, … Read more
Mobsters. Doctors. Politicians. Musicians. What’s the common thread connecting this motley crew? They’re all in Australia’s secret society of real vampires. Spawned from the goth subculture, this shadowy community – known as a ‘vampire court’ – now includes Aussies from all sorts of walks of life. Stemming from goth subculture, this shadowy community – known as … Read more
Sarah Michelle Gellar blames changes in societal values for the decline of long-lasting relationships. In September, the 47-year-old actress and Freddie Prinze Jr., 48, who share two children, celebrated their 22nd wedding anniversary. During an interview with Fox News Digital, alongside her “Dexter: Original Sin” co-star Patrick Gibson, Gellar reflected on the secrets to an … Read more
A new study has uncovered a “fascinating link” between looks and behavior that suggests beauty is indeed more than skin deep. Published in the Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, results of the study revealed that attractive people are expected by others to be more generous and kind. Furthermore, reserachers found the inverse to be true as … Read more
A Japanese village struggling with a low population created life-sized dolls to mimic the feeling of a bustling society. The hamlet of Ichinono, which has less than 60 residents and only one child, is trying to fill the void with stuffed mannequins, which they dress up and place around the community — and even pose … Read more
Superheroes are saving the real world, too. A study published in The Journal of Psychology in August found that superhero movies can promote prosocial behavior — actions that benefits other people or society as a whole. Researchers wanted to see how the films that are typically filled with violence affect viewers in terms of empathy and … Read more
She had an unexpected cellmate. Amanda Tarver, a Miami, Florida, wife and mother of two, discovered she was pregnant two weeks after she was put behind bars on a drug conviction. “I didn’t even know if I’d make it to full-term because of my stress and anxiety levels,” she said. Amanda Tarver, 34, found out … Read more
They knew it was the Ry-ght thing to do. A celebrated society exclusive to people named Ryan sprung into action upon learning that a baby of the same name needed money for a life-changing operation. In a little less than an hour, the viral nationwide Ryan Meetup group — which threw a huge, regional bash … Read more
Don’t tell Mulder and Scully. An academic in England says Earthlings are having too close of an encounter with UFO conspiracies and that it “is no longer a quirk, but a widespread societal problem.” “This belief is slightly paradoxical as we have zero evidence that aliens even exist,” Tony Milligan, a research fellow in the … Read more
A brutal decades old murder-by-hit man of a prominent young married black socialite in the South — a killing shockingly contracted by her craven white millionaire husband — is given the full forensic treatment in journalist Deb Miller Landau’s “A Devil Went Down to Georgia: Race, Power, Privilege, and the Murder of Lita McClinton.” Just … Read more
This year marks the 200th anniversary of one of the weirdest and most reality-shifting moments in science. On Feb. 20, 1824, at the annual meeting of the Geological Society in London, the world was introduced to the very first dinosaur: the megalosaurus. Life-size prehistoric dinosaurs at Britain’s Crystal Palace Park. Heritage Images/Getty Images Before a … Read more
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It’s “Fortnight” Friday! Taylor Swift has officially dropped her first music video off of her 11th studio album, “The Tortured Poets Department.” The 34-year-old musician released her new music overnight Friday, with a second batch of songs at 2 a.m., making it a surprise double album. The track features Post Malone and is rumored to … Read more
Half of men feel pressured to be “manly,” according to new research. A survey of 2,000 men, half of whom are sexually active, found that 50% feel under pressure to perform masculinity and eight in 10 agree that there is a societal pressure for men to behave a certain way. For nearly half, this pressure … Read more
Filmmakers love survival stories, but there are aspects of the so-called “miracle in the Andes” that pose special difficulties for any movie, not least because, a half-century on, the most notorious turn that events took will be well known to most viewers going in. On Oct. 13, 1972, a Uruguayan plane bound for Santiago, Chile, … Read more
It promises to be a Ryan good time. This Saturday, Clinton Hall in Williamsburg will host the first-ever Rytoberfest — an exclusive event just for those named Ryan. “The beers will be flowing and the Bryans won’t be going,” the invite reads. Some 150 Ryans from as far away as Maine and potentially the West … Read more
DEAR ABBY: Can people in this society please stop assuming that everyone has a smartphone? Not everyone is willing — or able — to spend $1,000-plus for one. Some of us carry older, less-expensive phones that receive calls and text messages and that’s it. I just got off a really annoying phone call with the … Read more
Being a Sackler is not what it used to be. Prior to 2019, when a slew of lawsuits maintaining that the billionaire clan had profited from the opioid crisis that the family’s Purdue Pharma allegedly helped create, the Sacklers were everywhere: Socializing at galas, swanning around the Hamptons, dropping big bucks on a wing at the … Read more