Since the massacre of 20 children and six adults in Newtown, Connecticut, nine days ago, Remington Arms, a name synonymous with rifle-making for almost two centuries, has found itself in the crosshairs of the debate over gun violence.
This article on Time magazine by Veronique Greenwood explains how this pattern works and how a new study by scientists who sifted through data on 1,500 ancient towns, villages, and cities that flourished in the basin of Mexico over the course of centuries has found that this trend dates back 2,000 years ago.
Research over the centuries had found that carrying out certain actions under certain circumstances would generally yield the desired results in these roles.
Several studies in the early 21st century have found that children born to men older than age 50 are nearly three times more likely to have schizophrenia than those born to younger men.
Readers who have encountered it over the past half-century have found it funny, prophetic, revolting - a famous TLS review in 1963 had the headline "Ugh... .. - hard to understand and amazingly inventive.
"It is surely the case that many women, following the 'our bodies our selves' movement in the fourth quarter of the twentieth century, have found great good in self-pleasuring — perhaps especially in the discovery of their own possibilities for pleasure — something many had not experienced or even known about in their ordinary sexual relations with husbands or lovers," she writes.
These findings match others which, since the start of the century, have found that women are more willing to use email.
American life during the late 20th century had found its Boswell.
The twenty-first century has found many ways to turn back, often uncritically, to life, bodies, matter, affect, and the real.
