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When People of Color Defend Confederate Monuments
In New Orleans, African Americans and Native Americans are standing with those who have camped out in defense of Confederate monuments. Photojournalist Abdul Aziz needed to find out why.
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Researchers Need Your Help – What's 'Normal' for You After Sex?
A new study is investigating how people feel immediately after sexual activity.
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I spent 5 years with some of Trump’s biggest fans. Here’s what they won’t tell you
How Donald Trump took a narrative of unfairness and twisted it to his advantage. By Arlie Russell Hochschild.
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Some Lost Superstitions of the Early-20th-Century United States
These deeply entertaining lists of superstitions, gathered by Fletcher Bascom Dressler in 1907, are a good sample of the kinds of sayings American college students from across the country heard in their homes in the late-19th and early-20th centuries... By Rebecca Onion.
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Lévi-Strauss, philosopher among the Indians
The life of the anthropologist and thinker, Lévi-Strauss. By Adam Kuper.
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1980s Metalhead Kids Are All Right: New Study Suggests They Became Well-Adjusted Adults
In the 1980s, The Parents Music Resource Center (PMRC), an organization co-founded by Tipper Gore and the wives of several other Washington power brokers, launched a political campaign against pop music, hoping to put warning labels on records that promoted Sex, Violence, Drug and Alcohol Use.
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Can a "Triple Package" of Personality Traits Explain Success?
The “tiger mother” thesis is refuted by science
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Micro-targeted digital porn is changing human sexuality
Ever-faster feedback loops and micro-targeted digital porn are pushing human sexuality into some seriously weird places
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‘Meritocracy’ Is Just Another Way to Put You Down
Society is in trouble when we start throwing around terms like “the best and the brightest.” By Justin Fox.
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Make no mistake, revenge is (bitter) sweet
Deep, dark and sometimes overwhelming, the human compulsion to seek revenge is a complex emotion that science has found incredibly hard to explain. Despite popular consensus that "revenge is sweet," years of experimental research have suggested otherwise, finding that revenge is seldom as satisfying as we anticipate and often leaves the avenger less happy in the long run. New research is adding a twist to the science of revenge, showing that our love-hate relationship with this dark desire is indeed a mixed bag, making us feel both good and bad, for reasons we might not expect.
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W. E. B. Du Bois’s Modernist Data Visualizations of Black Life
Du Bois’s charts focus on Georgia, tracing the routes of the slave trade to the Southern state, the value of black-owned property between 1875 and 1889, comparing occupations practiced by blacks and whites, and calculating the number of black students in different school courses (2 in business, 2,252 in industrial). By Allison Meier.
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Couples who divide housework fairly have more sex
Couples who divide housework fairly have more sex, but couples where the man does the bulk of the housework have significantly less sex than others.
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Requiem For the American Dream (FULL)
Profoundly personal and thought provoking, Noam Chomsky provides penetrating insight into what may well be the lasting legacy of our time - the death of the middle class, and swan song of functioning democracy. A potent reminder that power ultimately rests in the hands of the governed, Requiem is required viewing for all who maintain hope in a shared stake in the future.
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NSFW Sexy web series is a different way to talk about consent
"If a girl leans in and whispers all the things she wants you to do to her, that's not sexy?" Come on...
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The Big Black Lady At The End Of The Table
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How the Other Fifth Lives
For years now, people have been talking about the insulated world of the top 1 percent of Americans, but the top 20 percent of the income distribution is also steadily separating itself — by geography and by education as well as by income. This self-segregation of a privileged fifth of the population is changing the American social order and the American political system.
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Texting Isn’t the First New Technology Thought to Impair Social Skills
New technologies often unsettle the way we relate to one another, of course. But social ruptures caused by texting have a strong echo in the arguments we had a hundred years ago. That’s when a newfangled appliance gave us a strange new way to contact one another en masse: the telephone.
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Fear of vengeful gods may have helped human societies expand
Belief in an all-seeing punitive god may motivate people to be more charitable towards strangers outside their own family and community, particularly to those of similar beliefs.
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Zygmunt Bauman: “Social media are a trap”
An inspiration for Spain’s May 15 movement, the sociologist is skeptical about chances for change. By Ricardo de Querol.
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“We’re all nothing but bags of stories”
Carlos Castaneda as a Countercultural Icon and Budding Post-Modernist. By Andrei Znamenski.
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