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Sociology
In partisan political times, recognizing the scientific truth is more important than ever. Scientists must be vocal and clear about reality.
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.
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Who decides what’s “normal” and why? As social norms increasingly dissolve, here’s how to find true guidance.
The annual rite of passage has always been more about the ambivalence of adults than the amusement of children.
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The winners of the remote work boom? Utah, Arizona, and Maine. Here’s what the US’ post-pandemic migration looks like.
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.
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“We control nothing but influence everything.” Political scientist Brian Klaas on how every decision we make - both massive and miniscule - shapes our futures.
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.
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Feeling lonely? So is everybody else. Here’s how to change that, according to three experts.
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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.
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“Masculinity” has become synonymous with “toxic.” Journalist Christine Emba explains how that happened, and how it can change.
"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.