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The Middle Ages were not all about tyrannical rulers and power struggles. Cooperation, compromise, and women in power were also common, according to a historian at the University of Oslo.This post was originally published on […]

Readers are unable to reliably differentiate AI-generated from human-written poetry and are more likely to prefer AI poems, according to new research published in Scientific Reports. This tendency to rate AI poetry positively may be […]

For decades, Disney animations have shaped perceptions of family relationships and gender roles. Although much focus has traditionally been on princesses and female characters, a new study shifts attention to fatherhood and the evolving ideals […]

Researchers at the Umingmak Centre, a child advocacy center in Nunavut, and the University of Toronto’s Ontario Institute for Studies in Education (OISE) have released a study that identifies systemic challenges in Nunavut’s child welfare […]

A study authored by Xiangming Fang, a research associate professor in the Georgia State University School of Public Health, provides the first estimates of the significant economic burden that child marriage imposes on the people […]

In response to demands for police reform, agencies have begun to pursue alternative responses to calls involving mental health crises. Across the United States, jurisdictions are adopting co-responder teams that bring qualified mental or behavioral […]

The creative industries are of vital importance to the UK economy, accounting for £115.9 billion in 2019. It’s estimated that film and high-end television production alone—one of the UK’s fastest growing industries—will require between 15,130 […]

In early October, The Swan auction house in Tetsworth, Oxfordshire, listed several lots of human remains for sale, including skulls from west Africa and shrunken heads from South America.This post was originally published on this […]

The way people talk determines, among other things, whether we listen to what the other person has to say and, for example, whether we like them. Researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Empirical Aesthetics […]