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How to End Homelessness
A study looks at a few options for getting homeless families off the streets, and comes away with clear results. The first-ever large-scale study on the topic finds that permanent, stable housing can be more cost-effective than shelters.
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Download eight years' worth of Reddit comments
You can read every public comment ever posted on Reddit. Good luck with that. Those comments are saved as plain text, along with their authors' usernames, scores and subreddit locations, among other info. Archive.org even considered the feat notable enough to preserve for future generations.
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I, Racist
"All the Black voices in the world speaking about racism all the time do not move White people to think about it- but one White John Stewart talking about Charleston has a whole lot of White people talking about it. That's the world we live in. Black people can't change it while White people are silent and deaf to our words."
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Men may feel more threatened by female bosses, research finds
"The concept of masculinity is becoming more elusive in society as gender roles blur, with more women taking management positions and becoming the major breadwinners for their families," said lead researcher Ekaterina Netchaeva, an assistant professor of management and technology at Bocconi University in Milan, Italy. "Even men who support gender equality may see these advances as a threat to their masculinity, whether they consciously acknowledge it or not."
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Kids Today: Geoffrey Young reviews 'The Spiral Notebook'
Among the shooters, there are commonalities—social isolation, feelings of persecution, psychotropic drug use, obsessive playing of violent video games, etc.—that experts will, in every aftermath, desperately try to collate and quantify with the hope of achieving some understanding of a phenomenon that has become appallingly familiar in our culture. But however much the data on shooters are fed into algorithms and weighed against behavioral profiles...
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Inequality can be addressed only if we start talking about the 'working class'
One reason for widening inequality is the decline of unions, which in turn is partly the result of the gradual elimination of the "working class" from our vocabulary.
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Army’s Anthropology Experiment Ends in Defeat
Embedding social scientists in combat is a good idea -- but they should be in uniform.
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On the Need to Fight Terror with Reason
After every such incident, that search is renewed: why did this happen? Is it religion? Poverty? How do we stop it? But maybe we are asking the wrong questions - sharpening the same tools again and again will do us no good if they weren’t the right tools. What we need instead is an examination of whether we’re looking at the problem the right way to begin with. That perspective comes from 14 years of studying extremism, terrorism and sectarian conflict in the field.
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The Perfect Scientific Crime?
Science fraud has been in the news again lately, and it got me thinking about whether it would be possible to fake data with no chance of getting caught. Would it be possible to carry out the perfect scientific crime? How can we help make life more difficult for fraudsters?
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Slime-mould economics
Orthodox economics is broken. Applying what we know about evolution, ecology and collective behaviour might help us avoid another catastrophe. By Kate Douglas
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“It’s really long overdue”: Why Obama’s new anti-segregation rules are coming decades late
Earlier this month, the administration announced a new initiative intended to reverse some of the racial segregation that has long characterized housing in the United States. The plan is to provide much more information to local authorities about segregation in their communities; and then to use a mix of carrots and sticks to encourage them to reduce it. The administration's plans will help, but they're just a start, Rutgers University's Paul Jargowsky tells Salon.
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Why Being ‘Born Gay’ is a Dangerous Idea
There is another way. It will not satisfy those who wish that we would all unquestioningly accept that sexuality is, simply, a natural phenomenon, nor will it placate those who wish to identify the LGBT community as a symptom and cause of moral ills. Yet it is more accurate as a description of the biology of sexuality and its social nature. Desire might be biologically driven, but it moves on tracks laid forth by human culture.
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On Human Equality and the Nonhuman
This collection of essays, which emerged from a 2012 conference of the same name at University of Wisconsin-Milwaukees Center for 21st Century Studies, assembles texts by a group of scholars who expand on numerous challenges involving engagement with the nonhuman, such as climate change, biotechnology, genocide, terrorism, and war.
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Provocative new study finds bullies have highest self esteem, social status, lowest rates of depression
A just-published Canadian study has added heft to a new theory about bullying — that the behaviour actually helps build social rank and sex appeal
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What Drives Mass Hysteria, Human Stampedes, and Fads?
From Black Friday stampedes to scapegoating Jews in the Holocaust, social delusions are a barometer of the state of a society. An excerpt from the new book "A Colorful History of Popular Delusions", by Robert E. Bartholomew and Peter Hassall.
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ProjectImplicit
I found this collection of tests used to gauge implicit bias absolutely fascinating.
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Would You Rather Lose Your Morals or Your Memory?
A new study sheds light on a common side effect of dementia—the loss of morals. Strohminger’s research depends in part on an extremely rare type of brain cell, the spindle neuron. Outside of the sharpest mammals, like dolphins, elephants, and great apes, no other animal shares them with us.
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5 Big Ideas That Don't Work In Education
A famous researcher slams popular ideas in a controversial new paper. Hattie directs the Melbourne Education Research Institute at the University of Melbourne, Australia. He also directs something called the Science of Learning Research Centre, which works with over 7,000 schools worldwide. Over the past 28 years he has published a dozen books, mostly on a theory he calls Visible Learning. His life's work boils down to one proposition: To improve schools, draw on the best evidence available.
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A Social History of Jell-O Salad: The Rise and Fall of an American Icon
Shaped by the rise of home economics, the industrialization of the food system, World War II, and changing expectations about women's labor, few foods can tell us more about US life in the 20th century than the wobbling jewel of domestic achievement: the Jell-O salad. By Sarah Grey.
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Elderly men have the highest suicide rate - and ageism stops us from doing something about it
The most recent Australian suicide statistics from 2013 show that, out of the whole population, men aged 85 years and over have the highest suicide rates. While the attention these figures have garnered is a positive sign, this is hardly a new phenomenon. Over 38 men in every 100,000 of that age group die by suicide, which is more than double the rate among men under 35. The rate is around seven times higher than in women of all ages.
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