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Sociology
Lawmen and outlaws were often the same people.
X marks the spot. The Dutch town of Ommeren has been swamped by detectorists armed with shovels looking for $20-million treasure.
Evil is easy to identify and fight against; not so with stupidity.
It is estimated that as many as 488 million people worldwide were exposed to dangerously long working hours in 2016.
A new study of global love finds that Americans have some of the most loving relationships, while Chinese and Germans have some of the least.
Computerized, job-focused learning undercuts the true value of higher education. Liberal arts should be our model for the future.
When boredom creeps in, many of us turn to social media. But that may be preventing us from reaching a transformative level of boredom.
For college students, it's the early afternoon.
Retired astronaut Ron Garan believes that before we can begin solving our problems, we must understand our interrelatedness through the "orbital perspective."
We all see beauty the same way.
There is more consensus on what heaven looks like than hell.
For the first time in nearly 1500 years, fewer than half the people in England and Wales consider themselves Christian.
“My dad asked me if I had been to tutoring and I lied… Then he showed me the tablet."
Inequality should be measured in terms of the time it takes for us to earn the money to buy the things we need. And everyone is getting wealthier.
"Tristram Shandy" trolled its way to fame.
Virtually all the statistical methods researchers commonly use assume potential mating partners decide who they will have children with based on a roll of the dice.
There are different types of atheism and atheists. In general, they can be classified as the non-religious, the non-believers, and agnostics.
The genes responsible for facial features may also influence behavior.
The larger truth on the streets is that no one uses just one drug anymore.
The findings contradict a widespread belief.
Population growth is driven by three changes: Fertility, mortality, and migration.
You want your baby's name to be unique, but so does everyone else.
They believe in meritocracy, yet leave their kids massive wealth.
Paradoxically, some do it for erotic reasons.
Many Americans aren't rejecting spirituality, just practicing it differently.
In the future, people may look back with horror at how humans treated AI in the 21st century.
Satanic cultists don't even believe the Devil exists. Satanism is largely a religion focused on secular humanism and hedonism.
The media is deliberately pushing your buttons.
Urban legends help personify the anxieties that arise from living in a modern city.