Watch out, Gen X-ers — there’s a nostalgia overload heading your way, courtesy of this over-the-air TV simulator. And it has us feeling a little Saturday morning cartoon-ish, or maybe even a ...

As the Russian cultural theorist Svetlana Boym proposed in her classic study, “The Future of Nostalgia” (2001), longing for the past is an “incurable modern condition,” an ailment that ...

In recent years, nostalgia has been the dominating force in the world of interior design. Whether it’s vintage decorating ...

Nostalgia is a complex emotion. It blends sentimental longing for a cherished past and the bittersweet realization that one can never fully return to that time. Psychologists have long puzzled ...

Nostalgia is, among other things, a coping mechanism. Psychologists say that when we are feeling depressed with current events, we often grow wistful about another time in the past when we ...

Nostalgia is sentimentality for the past, typically for a period or place with positive associations, but sometimes also for the past in general, ‘the good old days of yore’. At the end of ...

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