Social Sciences

In a study published in the journal PNAS, researchers compared house size distributions from more than 1,000 sites around the world, covering the last 10,000 years. They found that while inequality is widespread throughout human […]

We are currently in the midst of a youth mental health crisis. In 2023 in England, a fifth of children aged 8 to 16 had a probable mental disorder.This post was originally published on this […]

Millions of UK households are facing what’s been dubbed “awful April” after rising council tax, water bills and broadband costs coincided with the new tax year. It could all start to hurt quite quickly. And […]

To live together in social communities, people create and maintain expectations about what is normal and what is not. Sometimes things can fall outside the range of normal and people are OK with it. You […]

For some people, protests don’t seem like rational and responsible forms of political participation in a democratic system. According to the latest World Values Survey (2017–2022), 28.6% of Canadians and 27.7% of Americans said they […]

In Antalya, Turkey, in the early hours of March 27, 2025, Pikachu was spotted fleeing the police, making a getaway as fast as his short yellow legs could waddle.This post was originally published on this […]

While pornography has been present throughout human history in various forms, such as ancient erotic art to more modernized motion pictures, research shows an increase in use over recent decades given the rise of technology […]

A “remarkable” transformation is underway in American religious life, Cornell-led research finds. Large numbers are leaving organized religion—not in favor of secular rationality, but to pursue spirituality in ways that better align with their individual […]

At the University of Virginia, assistant professor of classics Inger Kuin explores the intellectual history of ancient Greece and Rome. Within her research, she studies the role of humor in classical thought, even teaching a […]

I’m more of a scroller than a poster on social media. Like many people, I wind down at the end of the day with a scroll binge, taking in videos of Italian grandmothers making pasta […]