Social Sciences

Traveling isn’t always easy for plus-size people. There can be accessibility issues, such as seats that are too small, but also lingering societal biases, that make the whole experience feel like it’s made for someone […]

Training for police officers and soldiers often focuses on exceptional situations—the so-called “split second” in which everything is decided. But in practice, this does not adequately prepare them for day-to-day work.This post was originally published […]

Although living standards have generally improved globally over the past three decades, stark and persistent inequalities remain—both between countries and within them, particularly between urban and rural areas. These gaps highlight where efforts to reduce […]

UK campaign group The Dad Shift is staging a “dad strike” on June 11, to protest the poor paternity leave available to fathers in the UK. Fathers and other parents are being asked to “picket […]

Kim Tak-un was four years old when he was adopted by a Swedish family in 1974. Originally from South Korea, Tak-un had lived with his single father, a laborer who moved frequently for work. One […]

In Florida, a bill that bans cellphone use in elementary and middle schools, from bell to bell, recently sailed through the state Legislature.This post was originally published on this site

A recent study published in Social Work in Public Health explores the complex experiences of sexual agency among LGBTQ+ young adults experiencing homelessness in New York City. The research, conducted by CUNY SPH Associate Professor […]

Research led by the Max Planck Institute for Empirical Aesthetics has confirmed that female faces are rated as more attractive than male faces across diverse cultures, ethnicities, and regardless of the rater’s gender—a pattern that […]

It started with a TikTok trend. Makenzie Schroeder, a graduate student in the University of Missouri’s College of Arts and Science, noticed people were posting filtered photos of themselves looking slimmer, often captioned with phrases […]

Octopuses have been one of mapmakers’ favorite symbols for hundreds of years—used primarily to portray threats of political movements, financial systems, warring empires and the unknown.This post was originally published on this site