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Sociology

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

Divorce statistics

Maybe not as bad as you thought?

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