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Sociology
The sonnenrad is a Heathen symbol composed of 12 repeated runes.
Prison is an unreliable method of punishment. Let's do better.
Polarization or misunderstanding?
Detective fiction reveals how a particular society or time period looks at crime and criminal justice.
The chemistry of cooking over an open flame.
Robinson v. California helped to established a rehabilitative ideal: addiction should be dealt with as a therapeutic matter.
Before the war, medical experts treated the body as a sum of its parts. Conditions like wound shock and brain damage called for a change in perspective.
We all know assholes. Perhaps, you are one. Now, psychologists are trying to answer one of life's biggest mysteries: What, exactly, makes someone an asshole?
Human sacrifice appears to be as old as humanity itself. Still, experts disagree on how and where the practice first originated.
Shame is a powerful tool that must be used with care.
One form of domestic abuse involves a parent breaking their child’s connection with the other parent.
"A cheap loan is beyond all new destiny." Does that mean anything to you?
To the ancient Greeks, exotic animals were proof of mythological creatures. To the ancient Romans, they were oddities and adversaries.
Are psychopaths cold-blooded murderers? Not usually.
It's the clitoris, stupid!
And debate over it started soon after.
Were Hitler’s SS henchmen willing executioners fueled by racial propaganda or mindless servants vying for promotions?
The Spanish language has the ability to minimize and exaggerate by the simple addition of a suffix.
It doesn't matter how ridiculous a lie is. As long as it is repeated often enough, some people will believe it.
The researchers consumed a lot of wine while watching 15 seasons of the show.
In a new book, an MIT scholar examines how game-theory logic underpins many of our seemingly odd and irrational decisions.
Presidential gravesites are spread out “democratically” — but this is more by accident than design.
It may depend on whether you're an "easily empathetically embarrassed" person.
People underestimate their opponent’s capacity to feel basic human sensations. We can short-circuit this impulse through moral reframing and perspective taking.
"Immodest Acts" tells the story of Benedetta Carlini, a lesbian nun who claimed to be a mystic visionary but failed to convince the leaders of her faith.
Many atheists think of themselves as intellectually gifted individuals, guiding humanity on the path of reason. Scientific data shows otherwise.
John Templeton Foundation
The Assam stone jars were described as early as 1929. Almost a century later, archaeologists still puzzle over their placement and purpose.