David Stone
Founder & Euro Editor
Navigating Apps with Changes in Memory: Join Our Study
December 2, 2025
Weill Cornell Medicine seeks older adults with mild memory loss for a study on improving navigation apps. Participation is valuable,...
Flower Power to Green Living: The Hippie Movement at 60
In the midst of the 1960s, the hippie movement emerged, driven by a desire for peace and social justice. Rejecting conventionality, hippies embraced communal living and environmental awareness, leaving a lasting impact on society. Their legacy lives on in today’s focus on sustainability, social activism, and the pursuit of peace and harmony.
Unraveling the Tapestry of Hippies: Beyond Stereotypes and Popular Narratives
The hippies of the 1960s and 1970s, their movement continues to spark curiosity and debate, often reduced to caricature and simplistic representations. While tie-dye shirts, psychedelic music and recreational drugs were part of the scene, these elements paint only a…
Understanding the Hippie Movement of the 60s
A pointed look at a curvy world The 1960s was a revolutionary time, an era of social revolution and progressive views that left a lasting impression1. The hippie movement, a counterculture that emerged during this time, rejected social norms and…
Was the hippie movement a necessary disruption? Where would we be now…?
The hippie movement in America during the 1960s and early 1970s was a countercultural phenomenon that challenged the mainstream ideals of consumerism, capitalism and conformity. The hippie disruption emerged in unison with social, political and economic rebellion seeded in the…
What Were The Hippie Beliefs? A 1960s Flashback
The hippie subculture emerged in the United States during the mid-1960s and became associated with a rejection of mainstream values. Hippie beliefs advocated for peace, love, and personal freedom, among other things. Here is a closer look at some of…
15 ways hippies changed society in the 1960s and beyond
Actions taken by hippies were effective in bringing about change. Pay no attention to the conservative naysayers who still can’t get over it. Some of those actions were protesting against the Vietnam War, advocating for peace, expanding awareness, exercising sexual…
When were hippies most popular? What happened to them?
Hippies never had a birthdate. They rose out of a foundation of beatniks, free love, peace activism, feminism, civil rights, rock music, dropping out of commercial culture and mind expansion. All that coalesced into a major social movement. by Peter…
Types of Hippies from the 1960s
I’ll begin my article by saying there are many different types of hippies. I was there, rolled through it all, and I remember everything. Edited by David Stone Let’s delve deeper into the diverse tapestry of hippie subcultures in the…
Discover How Hippies Saved Physics From War to the Computer Revolution
So, you thought all hippies did was smoke pot, drop acid, rock and make out… You’re in for a surprise. Here’s how hippies saved physics from a weapon of war to one of dizzying discovery. By David Stone Assorted Ideas,…
The Revolution We Forgot: Notes From the 60s Hippie Movement
Bring back the hippies! Where di letting conservatives get a foothold get us? Hippies were anti-Trump before the MAGA cult. We took on wiser devils in Johnson, Kissinger and Nixon, and they’ve tried to beat us back ever since. Today,…
David Stone
Founder & Euro Editor