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Sociology
Reading this article would be such a millennial thing to do.
From tribal hunts to Stonehenge and into the modern day, the peer instinct helps humans coordinate their efforts and learning.
“The primary way that people make friends is through institutions."
Man seeking meaningful relationship at the intersection of on-demand empathy and Rule 34.
Plenty of parents feel guilty about wanting to skip playtime, but there's no need.
The annual rite of passage has always been more about the ambivalence of adults than the amusement of children.
Religion is a product of, and not a source of, our evolutionary moral dispositions.
How “Catastrophe and Social Change” (1920) became the first systematic analysis of human behavior in a disaster.
What are we supposed to do when experts look at the same data yet reach starkly different conclusions?
Whenever something goes wrong — in business as in life — we tend to get cause and effect totally muddled up.
Everyone has to learn about sex somehow. Today, billions of people are learning about it from porn.
And, more importantly, what’s being done to get them online?
The true story of the shot that "reverberated through England" when science collided head-on with religion.
Saudi Arabia’s Jeddah Tower is poised to become the world’s tallest building. What’s behind the century-plus drive to build ever taller skyscrapers?
Mental health awareness is more widespread than ever. Some professionals think it may have gone overboard — especially on TikTok.
Are fava beans and chianti really the best pairing for human liver?
Female physicians tend to practice medicine as it should be practiced: with care and compassion.
How (not) to end up in the ash heap of history.
The "Shopping Cart Litmus Test" is a popular meme about morality. What does it really reveal about one's character?
The Human Chronome Project finds that the average human sleeps for 9 hours but only works for 2.6 hours.
"Values emphasizing tolerance and self-expression have diverged most sharply, especially between high-income Western countries and the rest of the world."
Although social paranoia is more common than clinical paranoia, studies suggests that American society isn’t any more conspiratorial than it has been in the past.
In the murder trial of Dan White, the defense touched on diet as a cause for White's actions. It has become known as the "Twinkie defense."
Public mass shooters almost always have worldviews shaped by the "3 Rs": rage, resentment, and revenge.
Susannah Fox, former chief technology officer for the HHS, explains how technology has empowered us to help fill in the cracks of the healthcare system.
“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.
A college education currently provides roughly a 10% rate of return, beating the long-term performance of equities.
Or are cults the religions we find distasteful?
How would you feel about working like a Lutheran or a Cistercian?
The National Defense Education Act of 1958 meshed with white anxiety about the desegregation of schools.