This year’s festive decorations are being pushed even further back, with a new “window decor” style being pushed further into the future.As the New York Times points out, the term window decor means a window that looks like a window and has a handle on one side and a small piece of paper that looks…
When it comes to Christmas decorations, it’s easy to miss the fact that the decorations are made up of a very specific subset of what’s available in most of our homes.This includes the fireplace mantel and other furnishings that decorate the home, as well as the various decorations that come with our own cars.We have…
Why are many people really sad and others happy at Christmas, says a leading researcher.The answer lies in our capacity to use emotions to make decisions, and it is a feature of our cognitive machinery, not a bug.“What we call emotion, and what we call thinking, are two very different things,” said Michael C. Sommers,…