Two days after actor Will Smith hit comedian Chris Rock in response to a joke about his wife, I gave a taster lecture to a group of year 12 students. I asked them if they agreed with Smith's actions and 58% of them agreed ...
Social Sciences
Apr 6, 2022
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When people publicly agree with a statement that they privately disagree with, we infer that the speaker is dominant and likely to be in a superior hierarchical position, concludes a new study published in the scientific ...
Social Sciences
Mar 18, 2022
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The narrative of film and television series has represented LGBTQ+ people (lesbians, gays, bisexuals, trans) in various ways. It has gone from complete invisibility (where there was no representation of these groups, or they ...
Social Sciences
Mar 2, 2022
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The American Dream may have faded, but it is unrealistically—and perhaps detrimentally—alive and well on teenagers' favorite TV programs, according to a report published today by UCLA's Center for Scholars and Storytellers.
Social Sciences
Nov 9, 2021
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A trio of researchers at the University of Oxford has found that in stories by children of either gender, male characters appear more often than female characters. In their paper published in the journal Society for Research ...
One summer night in August, 1935, a young Soviet miner named Alexei Stakhanov managed to extract 102 tonnes of coal in a single shift. This was nothing short of extraordinary (according to Soviet planning, the official average ...
Other
Jul 2, 2021
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A new paper in the journal Cognition examines the visual complexity of written language and how that complexity has evolved.
Education
Jun 16, 2021
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When you read texts that challenge the boundaries between reality and fiction, it may lead you to reflect on truths about yourself and the world you live in.
Education
Jun 3, 2021
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For much of American history, the books that children read have largely centered on white, male characters—but is that starting to change? Not very much, and not very quickly, suggests new research from the University of ...
Social Sciences
May 27, 2021
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Schools are among the worst institutional casualties of complex disasters. This has been the obvious case with the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, the Boko Haram insurgency and other violent conflicts in Africa, which have caused ...
Education
Mar 9, 2021
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