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How to spot a cougar at the bar: the vaccine that left a scar - WHYY
This story is from The Pulse, a weekly health and science podcast.
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Coolest Thing About Growing Up in the 1960s
Dec 20, 2024The 1960s were filled with cultural shifts, bold style, and memorable products that made you feel pretty "cool" just by owning them. From fashion statements to must-have gadgets, these things became symbols of status, and they shaped the trends of the 60s. So let’s take a look back at some of the coolest things the 1960s had to offer.
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This Meant You Were Rich in the 1960s
Dec 27, 2024In the 1960s, certain simple luxuries made a family stand out, especially when it came to modern conveniences. These were things that many of us dreamed of, so if you were lucky enough to have them, that meant you might have been rich in the 1960s.
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▶ Photos A journey through the years |Rare photographs from the past and their stories
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Coolest Thing About Growing Up in the 1950s
Jan 17, 2025The 1950s were a time when being cool wasn’t just about what you did—it was how you looked, how you spoke, and the way you carried yourself. From fashion trends to rebellious attitudes, these things left a lasting impression on American culture. So let’s take a look back at all the things that made you cool in the 1950s.
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12 Dangers Young People Ignored in the 1950s
Jan 31, 2025The 1950s is often romanticized as the golden age of America. For many, it was full of adventures that included lots of fun, but it all came with some level of risk. So, let’s take a look back at all the dangers that young people ignored in the 1950s, that made childhood so memorable.
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Episode 14 / The Last Days of Little Italy (New York City Short Film)
Feb 4, 2025 #newyork #littleitaly #nycThe Last Days of Little Italy: An Original Documentary Series.
Little Italy, a historic haven for immigrant families from the old country, was once threatened by an ever-expanding Chinatown. But now the fatal blow is being delivered by the gentrifiers. Corporations, yuppies, and chain stores all moved in. How did Little Italy transform itself from a working class neighborhood of tenement buildings to the third most expensive zip code in the United States?
Part funny, part sad, the series explores the impact gentrification is having on Little Italy's long-term residents. The striking imagery captures the neighborhood before it is completely erased by sterile trendy stores and upper middle class sameness.
Will New York City lose another cultural touchstone to the forces of greed?
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Channel: https://www.youtube.com/@PaulStoneFilms/videos
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The 1950s Might Have Been The Perfect Decade
Feb 7, 2025Growing up in the 1950s was a unique experience, it was marked by a blend of innocence, imagination, and cultural transformation. Daily life was full of foundational values that shaped an entire generation. So, let’s explore what it truly meant to be a kid in the 1950s, an idyllic time that still resonates with many of us.
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It was a turbulent time. I was too young to know - two years old when it closed out - but there were stories.
Korea and the resumption of steel rationing to industries. The automakers, still filling pent-up war demand, were fearing shutdowns and even conversion again to war materiel.
China fell to Mao and his band of buttheads. No one knew how fast or how far the mental illness that was Marxism, would spread.
1952 was a serious recession year. Almost as bad as the 1971-73 recession.
Ike, swept into office by popular acclaim...people weary of alphabet regulatory agencies, the Raw Deal and Truman's foul mouth...Ike kept the nation focused, by experiencing a heart attack. In office.
This, short years after the White House almost collapsed. Under all the paint and fine plasterwork, the interior structure of the WH was found to be seriously rotted. Rebuilding it with steel girders was a job.
And it all ended with Kennedy - telling us his father, bootlegger Joe Kennedy, had ordered him not to spend a penny more than needed to steal the election. Which did take considerable work, even though his opponent was the bumbling RINO fool, Nixon. Sort of like the Jebster Bush of his age. And I fear that, like Nixon, Jeb Shrub may again rise out of the primordal ooze.
Those were not good times. Economically they were better than the thirties; but not as good as they should have been. Roosevelt's crushing wartime taxes continued - and yes, one campaign pledge Kennedy made and kept, was a tax rollback. That was what made the 1960s better than the 1950s.
What we HAD, was a stable culture and unity of purpose - of ideals, aspirations, hopes.
Korea and the resumption of steel rationing to industries. The automakers, still filling pent-up war demand, were fearing shutdowns and even conversion again to war materiel.
China fell to Mao and his band of buttheads. No one knew how fast or how far the mental illness that was Marxism, would spread.
1952 was a serious recession year. Almost as bad as the 1971-73 recession.
Ike, swept into office by popular acclaim...people weary of alphabet regulatory agencies, the Raw Deal and Truman's foul mouth...Ike kept the nation focused, by experiencing a heart attack. In office.
This, short years after the White House almost collapsed. Under all the paint and fine plasterwork, the interior structure of the WH was found to be seriously rotted. Rebuilding it with steel girders was a job.
And it all ended with Kennedy - telling us his father, bootlegger Joe Kennedy, had ordered him not to spend a penny more than needed to steal the election. Which did take considerable work, even though his opponent was the bumbling RINO fool, Nixon. Sort of like the Jebster Bush of his age. And I fear that, like Nixon, Jeb Shrub may again rise out of the primordal ooze.
Those were not good times. Economically they were better than the thirties; but not as good as they should have been. Roosevelt's crushing wartime taxes continued - and yes, one campaign pledge Kennedy made and kept, was a tax rollback. That was what made the 1960s better than the 1950s.
What we HAD, was a stable culture and unity of purpose - of ideals, aspirations, hopes.
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Remembering US: 1950 (Part 1) NEW SERIES!
Feb 8, 2025Remembering US, covering the pre-rock n' roll years of American life, will run concurrently with The America We Knew series. It's in the same style as TAWK, except that instead of going month by month, each year will have six chapters, not necessarily following events in chronological order. And like TAWK, it's not meant as a comprehensive history lesson. Instead, it's more of a breezy tour of the sights and sounds of the era. Whether you were alive in 1950 or not, this is a fascinating period in our cultural past. Yes, this world actually existed 75 years ago!
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All gone. You can thank the Frankfurt School, with their three-generation onslaught of Cultural Marxism, for that.
It hasn't gone like the Frankfurt Marxist academics were taught it would...no surprise there...but the damage is lasting. Social and community cohesion are all but destroyed, now. Morality as a way of life, as guideposts on daily living...gone.
You only need look at traffic incidents to see this. Hit-and-runs are commonplace. Another common thing, is, scheissekophfs backing cars/trucks into persons behind, and claiming a rear-end incident. There are enough private dashcams catching this, that it's obviously not an aberration.
It's moral degeneracy.
It's the New Age.
It's what we've become, and I don't know how we get out of it. I can't find an example in history of a people that suddenly re-discovered moral foundations. Not short of societal collapse.
It hasn't gone like the Frankfurt Marxist academics were taught it would...no surprise there...but the damage is lasting. Social and community cohesion are all but destroyed, now. Morality as a way of life, as guideposts on daily living...gone.
You only need look at traffic incidents to see this. Hit-and-runs are commonplace. Another common thing, is, scheissekophfs backing cars/trucks into persons behind, and claiming a rear-end incident. There are enough private dashcams catching this, that it's obviously not an aberration.
It's moral degeneracy.
It's the New Age.
It's what we've become, and I don't know how we get out of it. I can't find an example in history of a people that suddenly re-discovered moral foundations. Not short of societal collapse.
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PREVIEW of an upcoming new series: Yesterday USA (covering the 1940s!)
Feb 16, 2025This is but one episode in a planned 60-part series covering each year of the 1940s in 6 chapters each (in the same style as The America We Knew and Remembering US). This is not just a series for senior citizens or history buffs. It's for anyone who enjoys classic films and music from a decade that shaped our country and the world like no other. Note: This video will be removed in one day. It's just to whet appetites. It will be re-posted later, in order, as I work backward from 1949 to 1940.
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Ooohh...must have shown normal families!
Quick, Buffy...PULL IT! Lock down his account!
Quick, Buffy...PULL IT! Lock down his account!
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Don't know why but I'm thinking something to do with copyright stuff. Maybe having to do with film clips or music. Hope he manages to get it straightened out. I enjoy this stuff.
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ILLEGAL NOW, But Normal in 1970s
Feb 21, 2025The 1970s was a completely different time. We had less rules to follow and that meant life was a bit more risky. Things that seemed completely normal, have over time become outlawed. So, let’s take a look back at all the things we did back in the 1970s that are now illegal.
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