Jihyun Park escaped North Korea and is now living in Manchester. But how to explain her scars to her children? Or why they…
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Cal State Northridge's sport psychology lab ran a regression analysis to see if there's any truth to the adage.
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A sociolinguist wonders if they’ll ever be able to interpret the waves, high beams and middle fingers of human drivers.
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Two-hundred years after 'Frankenstein' was first published, more and more scientists are running away from their…
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The ritual might seem strange, but a sociologist spent eight years studying it – and found that there really is a therapeutic…
A majority of white Americans now believe that white people experience racial discrimination, and memes like #ItsOkayToBeWhite…