In 1999, I published a study regarding older and younger adults’ reactions to holiday cards. In the olden days, at the end of the 20th century, people used to send one a...
Among the best antidotes for stereotypes and exaggerated fears are faces and names.
Take Pradip Upreti, who came to Erie in 2009 as a refugee from Bhutan and began pursu...
Midway into his four-year term as governor, Tom Wolf is finally getting it.
Wolf this week said he’ll reverse course when he presents his next state budget. This time, h...
A Christmas standard since the 1940s, “Baby, It’s Cold Outside” is an uncommonly catchy and witty song that is now — incredibly enough — controversial.
Anyone who has t...
President-elect Donald Trump is being normalized before our eyes. On Monday, the electoral college cast its votes in the customary way; despite pleas and demonstrations,...
They’re called the New Atheists and are people like Sam Harris, a neuroscientist who should have stuck with studying the brain instead of taxing his own with philosophic...
If Santa had a dime for every child who’s getting a bicycle, skateboard or rollerskates without the necessary safety helmet ... well, Santa could move south and retire w...
Everybody loves a snow day off school. In Western Pennsylvania you might call snow days the cost of doing business — they happen, and people have to adjust accordingly.
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The “fake news” phenomenon was on vivid display in social media during the bitter 2016 presidential campaign. A typical example of the nonsense was a story, shared a mil...
Driving a car is one of the basic activities of everyday life that is unquestionably getting more and more unpleasant. There is no argument about it. There’s no blaming ...
