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Cultural Sociology
A wide-scale examination of early Neolithic human skeletons reveals the violent history of a supposedly peaceful period.
A new study of global love finds that Americans have some of the most loving relationships, while Chinese and Germans have some of the least.
If comedies do get made today, they usually bypass the big screen and go straight to streaming platforms.
We all see beauty the same way.
For decades, cinemas have earned more from concessions than ticket sales. But can their current business model survive in the streaming age?
Million Stories
There are different types of atheism and atheists. In general, they can be classified as the non-religious, the non-believers, and agnostics.
Late-night shows, developed during the "golden age" of TV, are no longer as relevant in the age of streaming services and Donald Trump.
Urban legends help personify the anxieties that arise from living in a modern city.
You can buy over 400,000 products tagged “witch” on Etsy, from candles to spell bottles to pentagram necklaces.
We can never hope for a future with no problems. The solutions to problems create new problems, which in turn require new solutions, as WIRED founder Kevin Kelly explained recently.
Americans are more willing to put the greater good above their own interests today than in the 1950s.
Books that were rarely taught in 1963, when baby boomers were students, became classics when those same boomers were teachers and parents.
Bring not a bagpipe to a man in trouble.
Why should it be considered impolite to discuss something so important to our long-term well-being?
Million Stories
In a nod to its addictive qualities, it was first dubbed “Some More.”
In the early 1900s, some Americans feared that teddy bears would not instill maternal instincts in girls, thereby causing "race suicide."
This world map shows how the rest of the world LOLs. In France, you MDR; in China, you 23333.
Does your father say "I love you," or express it in another way?
Sometimes breaking a rule is the ethical thing to do.
Contrary to popular belief, it’s not to mark Mexican independence.
Moments of social anxiety around truth tend to be accompanied by similar “fool the eye” pop culture phenomena.
Catholic sisters outnumber priests and religious on every continent.
Successful romantic relationships require desire, but that desire doesn't have to be sexual.
The most feared sexually transmitted disease (STD) of the last half-millennium was usually named after foreigners, often the French.
Humans seemingly have opposing desires to fit in and to be unique. The interplay between these might drive the evolution of fads.
The German-American cartoonist introduced the idea that Santa Claus traveled with a sleigh and reindeer.
In her 2020 book, "The Alchemy of Us," Ainissa Ramirez explores how important material inventions shaped the course of human experience.