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More than just being a sentimental fool: The psychology of nostalgia
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Dec 12, 2008 |
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In the 17th and 18th centuries, nostalgia was viewed as a medical disease, complete with symptoms including weeping, irregular heartbeat and anorexia. By the 20th century, nostalgia was regarded as a psychiatric disorder, ...
Those were the days: counteracting loneliness with nostalgia
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Nov 12, 2008 |
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With the days getting shorter (and colder) and the Holidays quickly approaching, many of us start thinking back to days gone by. This sentimentality and desire for the past is known as nostalgia. All of us are struck with ...
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Nintendo's Mario endures even as games come and go
Nov 18, 2009 |
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(AP) -- You might call him the Mickey Mouse of video games. He's reminiscent of a doughnut, round and sweet and comforting. He's also a vessel, devoid of a real personality so you can live vicariously through ...
Journalism still finding recruits if not profits
Sep 21, 2009 |
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(AP) -- At 21, Alana Taylor has already seen her career in journalism transformed and perhaps cut short by the technology reshaping the news business.
Smoke-spewing Trabant poised for rebirth as electric car
Aug 17, 2009 |
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Once the much-mocked symbol of drab communist East Germany, Trabant cars are revving up for a dramatic rebirth as electric cars -- 20 years after they drove through the fallen Berlin Wall to freedom.
Microsofties' side project seeks new Office ideas
Aug 12, 2009 |
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(AP) -- Have a gripe about Office? A couple of guys at Microsoft Corp. want to hear it directly.
Apollo 11 astronauts look beyond moon, toward Mars
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Jul 20, 2009 |
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(AP) -- The astronauts who first landed on the moon aren't dwelling on their small lunar steps. Instead, two of them on Sunday urged mankind to take a giant leap to Mars.
The complicated consumer: Positive ads aren't always the most effective
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
Jun 15, 2009 |
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Ads that feature positive emotions, like happiness, are not always the best way to reach consumers, according to a new study in the Journal of Consumer Research.
'Guerrilla drive-ins' turn nostalgia on its head
Jun 09, 2009 |
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(AP) -- Think the only way to see a big-screen movie is while slurping a 64-oz. soft drink, eating a $5 candy bar and shushing the wannabe film critic behind you? That's not the case anymore, thanks to people ...
'World's oldest blogger' dies in Spain at 97
May 21, 2009 |
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A Spanish great-grandmother who billed herself as the "world's oldest blogger" and who gained a global following on the Internet, died Thursday at the age of 97, local officials and reports said.
Survey: 22 pct of Internet users ditch newspaper
Apr 30, 2009 |
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(AP) -- Sure, plenty of readers are turning more to the Web for newspaper and magazine stories, but are they giving up on print altogether? In many cases, yes, according to a recent study by the University of Southern California's ...
People, not just a building, make for 'place'
Dec 14, 2008 |
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A building designed to recapture the past may bring nostalgia, but the end product may not capture current realities of a place, says Kingston Heath, a professor of historic preservation at the University of Oregon.
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