It’s a short step from laughing in the line for artisan pastries to grimly waiting to buy a loaf of sliced white. Are we just rehearsing for food shortages?

In the modern world, we want everything now, if not yesterday. From sofa delivery to supper, we despise waiting more than Amazon Prime’s promised 24-hour window to get our hands on our goods. Delayed ...

Finnish queueing behavior involves substantial personal space maintenance — typically 1 meter or more between individuals waiting in lines for transit, services, and various other situations. The ...

Queueing is a bore and waiting to be served is one of life’s unavoidable irritants. Whether we are hanging on to a phone, waiting for response from a web server or seeking a medical procedure, we have ...

If you walked in late to Christopher Nolan’s Dunkirk and missed the passing reference to the Anglais, the first scene on the beaches would leave you in little doubt that this was a film about the ...