“Let Me See Your Smile” as Ugly Power Trip and Classification Struggle
I cannot recall such a combination of hoity-toity disparagement and society-wide officiousness in my lifetime
Read more...Category Archives: Social values
‘Good Vibes Only’: Why Toxic Positivity Is Slowly Killing Us
Humans are meant to feel and embrace a full range of emotions.
Read more...Ancestral Livelihoods and Moral Universalism: Evidence from Transhumant Pastoralist Societies
Historical transhumant pastoralism is strongly predictive of greater present-day in-group relative to out-group trust.
Read more...Human Prehistory—Why New Discoveries About Human Origins Open Up Revolutionary Possibilities
How the proto-technology of toolmaking during human prehistory may have influenced brain development and social structures.
Read more...‘Checkout Charity’ Can Increase a Shopper’s Anxiety, Especially When Asks Are Automated
Quelle surprise! A small survey suggests that a significant majority of shoppers do not like being asked to give to a charity at checkout.
Read more...A Pennsylvania Prison Gets a Scandinavian-Style Makeover – and Shows How the US Penal System Could Become More Humane
Better prision approaches can reduce stress and improve outcomes for inmates and staff. But that’s not the point, is it?
Read more...‘Great Resignation’? ‘Quiet Quitting’? If You’re Surprised by America’s Anti-Work Movement, Maybe You Need to Watch More Movies
Movies show that some Americans have not been on board with the cult of work.
Read more...Reflections on Graeber and Wengrow’s ‘Dawn of Everything’
David Graeber and David Wengrow spent ten years studying and thinking about human prehistory.
Read more...KLG: What if Medicine Were Taught Like a Science?
An unsparing look at some glaring deficiencies in reserach and training in medicine.
Read more...Brexit Britain Is All Alone in a Senseless Pursuit of Disaster Capitalism
As other nations return to state-led investment, Truss and Kwarteng act to weaken the democracy, economy and rights of Britain.
Read more...Supreme Court Grapples with Animal Welfare in a Challenge to a California Law Requiring Pork to Be Humanely Raised
By David Favre, Professor of Law at Michigan State University College of Law and Co-Founder of the Animal Legal Defense Fund. Republished from The Conversation. Should Californians be able to require higher welfare standards for farm animals that are raised in other states if products from those animals are to be sold in California? The […]
Read more...Maskstravaganza: Mask Fit, Mask Manufacturing, Masks on the Movie Set
Masks as a mark of solidarity.
Read more...The Lancet Commission on Lessons for the Future from the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Critical Review
The Lancet Commission unintentionally shows that neolibealism helped cause the horrific public health response to Covid-19
Read more...Book Excerpt: Rituals and the Search for Order
Research suggests that we spontaneously engage in ritualized behavior when facing stressful and uncertain situations.
Read more...Is ‘Seize Now, Sort It Later’ Itself an Assault on Liberty?
In a novelist’s world, there’d be two attacks on liberty, and the public would be led to see one of them.
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