When an Icelander arrives at an office building and sees "Solarfri" posted, they need no further explanation for the empty premises: The word means "when staff get an unexpected afternoon off to enjoy good weather."
Social Sciences
Apr 22, 2017
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Nineteen percent of respondents to a survey of academics report that they or someone they know have witnessed unidentified aerial phenomena (UAP)—observations of the sky that cannot be identified as aircraft or as known natural ...
Social Sciences
May 22, 2023
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U of T Engineering researchers studied the eye movements of drivers at busy Toronto intersections and found that more than half failed to make necessary scans for pedestrians or cyclists at right turns.
Social Sciences
Aug 9, 2018
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Whether the binding glue of a pair is lust or companionship and commitment, people experiencing romantic love probably fit into one of four distinct categories of romantic lovers, according to the first-of-its-kind research ...
Social Sciences
Feb 28, 2025
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Recent research has hypothesized that the earliest evidence of human lip kissing originated in a very specific geographical location in South Asia 3,500 years ago, from where it may have spread to other regions, simultaneously ...
Archaeology
May 18, 2023
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The stereotype that women are much more talkative than men is pervasive across many cultures, but a widely reported study by University of Arizona researchers in 2007 refuted the claim, finding that men and women speak roughly ...
Social Sciences
Feb 3, 2025
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Nearly half of black males and almost 40 percent of white males in the U.S. are arrested by age 23, which can hurt their ability to find work, go to school and participate fully in their communities.
Social Sciences
Jan 6, 2014
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In a study published in the Journal of the Royal Society Interface scientists have found that whilst mass connectivity through social media and the internet makes us look smarter it might be making us stupider.
Social Sciences
Feb 6, 2014
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A band of forgotten women were hugely influential in the rise of Christianity, a five-year study has found.
Social Sciences
Aug 12, 2013
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A unusual social study has revealed that atheists are more easily suspected of vile deeds than Christians, Muslims, Hindus or Buddhists—strikingly, even by fellow atheists, researchers said Monday.
Social Sciences
Aug 7, 2017
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