Researchers from the Higher School of Economics analyzed 62 million public posts on the most popular Russian social networking site VK and found that both men and women mention sons more often than daughters. They also found ...
Social Sciences
Jan 24, 2019
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A new UNSW study has revealed the science behind sexy selfies, showing that women tend to sexualise themselves in environments with greater economic inequality, rather than where they might be oppressed because of their gender.
Social Sciences
Aug 27, 2018
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Analysing 2500-year-old teeth has thrown open a window onto life and gender inequality during Bronze Age China.
Archaeology
Mar 19, 2020
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In cultures that permit men to take multiple wives, the intra-sexual competition that occurs causes greater levels of crime, violence, poverty and gender inequality than in societies that institutionalize and practice monogamous ...
Social Sciences
Jan 23, 2012
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"But ol' man river,
Social Sciences
Nov 29, 2017
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There was to have been a conference in Malaysia last week called Love and Sex with Robots but it was cancelled. Malaysian police branded it "illegal" and "ridiculous". "There is nothing scientific about sex with robots," ...
Robotics
Nov 25, 2015
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Stereotypes suggest that women love to talk, with some studies even finding that women say three times as much as men. But, new research from a team from the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge, shows there is an exception ...
Social Sciences
Oct 16, 2017
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The world's science academies on Thursday warned the upcoming Rio Summit that Earth faced a dangerous double whammy posed by voracious consumption and a population explosion.
Environment
Jun 13, 2012
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Have you heard of "eldest daughter syndrome?" It's the emotional burden eldest daughters tend to take on (and are encouraged to take on) in many families from a young age.
Social Sciences
Apr 7, 2023
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Researchers from the Department of Prehistory and Archaeology at the University of Seville have studied the archaeological evidence of prehistoric societies in the Neolithic Period in the Iberian Peninsula from the perspective ...
Archaeology
Jun 10, 2019
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