When Shane McCorristine, a scholar of modern British history, went trawling through police reports from 19th-century England, he was struck by the number that contained descriptions of dreams: ...

People often say that when making small talk, you want to stick to neutral and non-controversial topics. In my view, that is probably the worst advice you could ever give. Let’s take two common small ...

Nothing cues a deep internal sigh more than small talk. You know the drill. You sit down for a group meeting or line up behind a friend of your mother’s, and before you know it, you’ve discussed the ...

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OK, look. Boring is good. Well, it's been looking better and better in a world handing us everything from a two-year-and-counting pandemic to Politicians Gone Wild to a riot at the U.S. Capitol to ...