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Teen Girls and the Earliest Gender Inequalities in the Labor Market

Yasemin Besen-Cassino, LSE Business Review
Economics, Gender Studies, Politics & Economics, Society & Culture
The pay gap between men and women is a longstanding problem in both American workplaces and women’s lives, and a new experiment reveals why a commonly proposed solution may not actually help. There have been...

Forced Sterilization Programs in California Once Harmed Thousands – Particularly Latinas

Natalie Lira, The Conversation and Nicole L. Novak, The Conversation
Gender Studies, History, Medicine, Science & Medicine, Society & Culture
In 1942, 18-year-old Iris Lopez, a Mexican-American woman, started working at the Calship Yards in Los Angeles. Working on the home front building Victory Ships not only added to the war effort, but allowed...

I Run ‘Facial Recognition’ on Buildings to Unlock Architectural Secrets

Peter Christensen, The Conversation
Arts & Culture, Society & Culture, Uncategorized
About a decade ago, a modest update to Apple’s iPhoto software showed me a new way to study architectural history. The February 2009 update added facial recognition, allowing users to tag friends and loved...

Parents feel weird about sex ed for LGBTQ teens

Marla Paul, Futurity
Education, Gender Studies, Medicine, Science & Medicine, Society & Culture
The parents of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer teens feel uncomfortable and unequipped when trying to educate them about sex and dating, research finds. “Parents play an important role...

Five Important Ways to Think About Privacy

Paul Levy
Government, Politics & Economics, Society & Culture
Given the ongoing implosion of Facebook, concerns about privacy are, once again, in the headlines. Yet the fundamentals are fairly simple. Are we heading towards a world where transparency is the default, or...

Rights of the dead and the living clash when scientists extract DNA from human remains

Chip Colwell
Anthropology, Science & Medicine, Society & Culture
The remains of a 6-inch long mummy from Chile are not those of a space alien, according to recently reported research. The tiny body with its strange features – a pointed head, elongated bones – had been...

The Enlightenment is Dead, Long Live the Entanglement

Danny Hillis
History, Science & Medicine, Society & Culture
We have outgrown the distinction between the natural and the artificial.
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