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Sociology

Ways to be part of a village

If you want a support system, what help can you offer others?

Mutually exclusive parenting advice

When methods point in opposite directions

Two 19th-century missionary memoirs in China

Life for an American family in 1860s China

How bad is alcohol?

Unfortunately we landed on a pretty bad drug as a default.

Moral aesthetics

“Doing good” differs by subculture

Over- and under-diagnosis of sexism

Why both sides feel vulnerable

Divorce statistics

Maybe not as bad as you thought?

Lots of things are connected with eugenics

It’s easy to tar things this way, but it doesn’t make much sense.

How we end up with different intuitions about problems

Why do some people think a problem is very common and others think it’s very rare?

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