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I enrolled at this school once and almost everyday this student would show off about knowing the language and knowing the rules and laws of the culture. It wasn't arrogant or showing off exactly, more like he wanted to know more and wanted to get me into a conversation...
People in most cultures view women with small feet as attractive. Like smooth skin or an hourglass figure, petite feet signal a potential mate's youth and fertility. Because they signal reproductive potential, a preference for mates with these qualities may have evolved in the brains of our...
Rapid climate change during the Middle Stone Age, between 80,000 and 40,000 years ago, during the Middle Stone Age, sparked surges in cultural innovation in early modern human populations, according to new research.
The research, published this month in Nature Communications, was conducted by...
We've been talking about hookup culture so much that it may be shaping the statistics that we're using to discuss hookup culture in the first place. More »
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I've been trying to wrap my head around the issue of rape culture and animal abuse for a while now, and now that I am commenting on it, I'd like to provide full disclosure: I am not an active animal rights activist—though I would defend the life of an animal in most circumstances if I could–and...
Last week, I reported on the alleged rape case in Tarpon Springs, Florida concerning flagrant social media victim-blaming. Over the weekend, I had the pleasure of hearing from Dylan Fanelli, a resident of Tarpon Springs, who emailed me to explain that he had also once been accused of rape. He...
National Institutes of Health (NIH) scientists studying an emerging coronavirus have found that a combination of two licensed antiviral drugs, ribavirin and interferon-alpha 2b, can stop the virus from replicating in laboratory-grown cells. These results suggest that the drug combination could...
A new UBC study reveals that North American service workers are more likely to sabotage rude customers, while Chinese react by disengaging from customer service altogether. "Our research shows that culture plays a significant role in how frontline workers deal with customer abuse," says UBC...
The FDA has approved Flucelvax, the first seasonal vaccine licenced in the USA made with the use of cultured animal cells, instead of fertilized chicken eggs. The FDA (Food and Drug Administration) has approved Flucelvax to protect patients aged at least 18 years from seasonal flu. Flucelvax's...
Documenting adverse events improves perceptions of safety and may decrease incidents in multi-site clinical practices, according to a new study from researchers at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania. The results of the year-long study, which focused on the...