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The American nuclear family is officially over
The number of Americans living with a spouse and children has plummeted in the last 50 years.
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Human Beings Are Not Puppets, And We Should Probably Stop Acting Like They Are
A few years ago, we wrote about Joe Bernstein’s absolutely fantastic long read on how we’re probably all looking at the concept of disinformation wrong. As our title said, “most information on disi…
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Why So Many Authors Are Writing Multigenerational Stories
Several new books grapple with displacement and diasporic living in ways that feel particularly resonant in this moment
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The Brain’s Empathy Gap
Can mapping neural pathways help us make friends with our enemies?
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Trash Food
I sat without speaking, my food getting cold on my plate. Three thoughts ran through my mind fast as flipping an egg. First, I couldn’t see the connection between social class and garbage. Second, I didn’t like having my thirty-year career reduced to a single subject matter. Third, I’d never heard of anything called “trash food.”
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Believing that life is fair makes you a terrible person
Faced with injustice, we’ll try to alleviate it – but, if we can’t, we’ll do the next best thing, psychologically speaking: blame the victims of the injustice.
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Powerful Portraits of Secluded Cultures on the Brink of Extinction
Huli in Indonesia and Papua New Guinea. Before They Pass Away is a powerful documentary series by photographer Jimmy Nelson featuring dozens of cultures around the world whose people live in seclusion and are at risk of fading away.
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Friedan's Village
A look back at Parkway Village, the birthplace of The Feminine Mystique
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Non-Academic Skills Are Key To Success. But What Should We Call Them?
Half the picture of student success is something other than academic. So why can't someone come up with a better name for them?
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Even when we're resting, our brains are preparing us to be social
Our brains are wired to prepare us, during quiet moments, to be socially connected to other people, neuroscientists report. Facebook is aligned with the state of our brains at rest -- which can explain why it's such a popular activity when we want to take a break.
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America’s Competition Fetish Produces Human Sheep
Teaching competition from kindergarten up makes us stupid and uninventive.
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Masculinity Is Killing Men: The Roots of Men and Trauma
We begin the damaging process of turning boys into men long before boyhood ends.
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Facebook, social media and the real story of political change
Social media still gets too much credit for the Arab Spring and social change. Change needs people, not just tech
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The Archdruid Report: The Era of Breakdown
Druid perspectives on nature, culture, and the future of industrial society
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The Tragedy of the Digital Commons
How do you fix a broken system that isn't yours to repair? Advocates for fairer, safer online spaces are turning to the conservation movement for inspiration.
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We can’t handle the truth: “Primates of Park Avenue,” “On the Run” and nonfiction fact-checking blood baths
Scandals over two books on wealthy Manhattan wives and inner-city youth prove we still prefer stories to facts
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We don’t have to be monsters: The new neuroscience of genocide and mass murder
The Holocaust and other genocides taught us ordinary people can enact horrors. Now we might understand the science
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The Real Lesson of the Stanford Prison Experiment
Was one of psychology’s most controversial studies about individual fallibility or broken institutions?
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Conflict Over Sociologist's Narrative Puts Spotlight on Ethnography
Did Alice Goffman commit a felony while researching her book on young black men in the criminal-justice system?
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Urban commons have radical potential – it's not just about community gardens
A rise in commonly owned spaces and services hopes to reclaim the city for the public good, providing a participatory alternative to exclusive urban development. But how can it be upscaled from local garden projects?
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