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Sociology

Lyrics are arbitrary, joy isn’t

Music can be great even when it doesn’t make sense

Spider shopping

Seeking out the worst parts

The past was not that cute

Aesthetics are not history.

You can access long-lived communities

They’re still around.

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

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