Why Japan’s Birth Rate Collapsed in 1966 — And May Collapse Again in 2026
The culprit was an ancient superstition about "cursed" baby girls.
Tag: sociology
1 in 15 Americans Have Been Through a Mass Shooting — And Over 1 in 50 Were Injured
Millions of Americans have been exposed to a mass shooting.
Prisons are schools for criminals. Illegal earnings go up after jail time
As of 2008, just about one in 100 people in the US is currently living in jail. This amounts to ...
The world’s mood pattern graphed with twitter
Sociologists from Cornell University have scrambled through half a billion twits from the web to map out the way moods ...
Altruism gene discovered: generosity explained by science
I recently finished reading The Generous Man by Tor Nørretranders in which the author tries to explain the awkward act ...
Facebook profile shows your true personality
Facebook has already caused a major revolution in the way people regard social interaction, but really not much has been ...
Social media require ‘Community Relations 2.0’
Imagine an average day in your life; the odds are, it'll include either logging onto facebook, tweeting, browsing some pics ...
