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Gender Studies
A preview of the latest book by Chinese history expert Charlotte Brooks
For elite climbers, divers, and explorers, mastery can fuel an escalation loop in which identity and danger rise together.
Emily Mendenhall traces the medical myths, gender bias, and neurological truths behind hysteria, one of history’s most damaging diagnoses.
Preindustrial life wasn’t simple or serene — it was filthy, violent, and short. The Industrial Revolution was imperfect, but it was progress.
By designing smart systems, we can help ourselves live up to our best intentions — and perform even better in our workplaces.
People who've never been partnered tend to be less extraverted, less conscientious, and more neurotic.
Concerns about privacy and pressures regarding the physical appearance of women and their homes contributed to the failure of AT&T’s 1960s Picturephone.
In ancient Sparta, it was accepted practice for more women to marry and have children by more than one man.
Female physicians tend to practice medicine as it should be practiced: with care and compassion.
Research suggests that experience may matter more than innate ability when it comes to a sense of direction.
This map samples some of the digits that make up the DDC system, invented by the brilliant but flawed Melvil Dewey.
“Chicago May” was a classic swindler who conned her way around the world in the early twentieth century. She was also a sign of hard times.
About three out of every four people arrested in the U.S. are men. That rate is similar across the world.
Long overlooked, menstrual stem cells could have important medical applications, including diagnosing endometriosis
Fantasy, meet statistics: The census comes to Middle-earth!
This necropsy represents an early entry in what would become a tradition of performing autopsies to consider an individual’s sanctity.
Tikal, one of the biggest cities the Maya ever built, was home to a vast and flourishing society.
Serving as the inspiration for the modern horror classic “The Blair Witch Project,” what does our fascination with this unsolvable mystery tell us about our modern psyche?
The philosophy of sex is going through a recalibration period.
There are issues with Kinsey's data, but his books revolutionized Americans' thinking about sex and sexuality.
Musical preferences are correlated with personality traits — and these connections are largely consistent across cultures and continents.
Legend holds that newly elected popes in the Middle Ages had to present their genitals for inspection to confirm that they were male.
The author of Frankenstein had an obsession with the cemetery and saw love and death as connected.
Philosophy can focus on some dull topics. Luckily, some thinkers have spent lots of time on the philosophy of sex
Metaphors like the Great Chain of Being can lead people to misunderstand evolution and humanity’s place in the web of life.
A primer on Judith Butler’s theory of gender and performativity.
In numerous cultures worldwide, women were just as involved in bringing home the prehistoric bacon as their male counterparts.
Over the past two decades, the proportion of those who identify as bisexual increased from 1.2% to 4.5%.