Knowing Your Boundaries: A Key to Understanding Our Global Crises Glenn McLaren Government, Philosophy, Politics & Economics, Society & Culture, Sociology Is there one thing that is common to all of our major global crises; crises as diverse as sexual harassment and assault, mass immigration and globalization, technologies advancing beyond our control and global...
Not a Day for Salads: The Football Food Rules of the Super Bowl Emily Contois, Nursing Clio Arts & Culture, Politics, Sociology Super Bowl LII will soon be upon us, along with its super-sized spread of snacks, an American meal as iconic as Thanksgiving. Matching debates over what to serve on the fourth Thursday in November, food rules...
What Might Explain the Unhappiness Epidemic? Jean Twenge Arts & Culture, Sociology We’d all like to be a little happier. The problem is that much of what determines happiness is outside of our control. Some of us are genetically predisposed to see the world through rose-colored glasses,...
The Beauty of Ethereal Social Networks Michele Battle-Fisher Arts & Culture, Sociology A social network is “simply” bound as a set of objects, such as riders of an elevator lift, or even geese that are linked in some meaningful, measurable fashion. A gaggle of geese is a gaggle of geese but...
