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2026-03-18 @ 17.07.25 ∈ In English

Bell-bottoms today, miniskirts tomorrow: Math reveals fashion's 20-year cycle
Over the past century, skirt lengths have repeatedly shortened and [lengthened every two decades. But starting] in the 1980s, the data show a wider range of skirt lengths appearing at the same time, suggesting that fashion trends are becoming more fragmented.
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2026-03-11 @ 5.52.00 ∈ In English

(N = 1636)

Heat does not reduce prosociality, study suggests
At temperatures above 30°C, participants reported significantly more frustration, tiredness, and unhappiness, but neither heat nor the stress of losing had any systematic effects on egalitarianism, resource maximization, selfishness, spite, or competitiveness.
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2025-12-11 @ 17.25.51 ∈ In English

Personal risk tolerance has sweeping implications for how societies evolve
[When] wealth buffers are low and the stakes are high, that increases the degree to which risk tolerance is passed down from one generation to the next, so a distaste for risk—and therefore change—is likely to persist long-term.
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2025-10-17 @ 14.41.26 ∈ In English

Tradwife phenomenon isn’t a return to tradition, it’s a plea for balance
A survey of 1,000 young women aged between 18–34 found that what attracts them to tradwife content is less the male-breadwinner female-caregiver model and more the aesthetic of simplicity, leisure and escape from the pressures of increasingly demanding yet insecure work.
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2025-09-26 @ 11.07.35 ∈ In English

Study finds that cat owners donate slightly more than dog owners
[A study of 63 million donors] finds that cat owners donate slightly more than dog owners, and also donate more often and more diversely. However, people without pets donate the most.
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2025-09-26 @ 11.03.44 ∈ In English

New research reveals women outperform men on intelligence, competitiveness and literacy
When confidence was explicitly measured and incentivized, women consistently outperformed men. In the task measuring intelligence, they allocated their belief tokens in a way that achieved higher earnings efficiency than men, meaning they earned closer to the maximum possible expected reward[.]
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2025-09-20 @ 14.28.25 ∈ In English

Millennial pink, gen Z yellow, brat green… Tell me your favorite colors, and I’ll guess your generation
[Colors] are not created by nature—nor solely by the eye or the brain—but by society, which assigns them different meanings depending on the era. They thus become a kind of indicator of the transformations of each decade.
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2025-09-13 @ 14.19.59 ∈ In English

Many lonely people would prefer a robot over human interaction
"We found that lonely customers with a reduced need for interaction with other humans are more likely to use service robots as a means of avoiding human contact and conserving emotional resources."
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2025-08-27 @ 15.30.37 ∈ In English

(The news article, and to a lesser degree the study’s abstract imply females being more aggressive rather than self-reporting being so, which is what the study actually discovered.)

Females show higher sibling-specific aggression than males, study finds
In terms of direct aggression, girls and women [reported being] slightly more aggressive towards their siblings [than] boys and men. Men and boys, by contrast, [reported being] more likely to be directly aggressive with non-siblings.
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2025-08-20 @ 19.28.51 ∈ In English

Research shows the ‘compliment sandwich’ is no longer effective
Delivered with care and confidence, direct feedback doesn't just help employees grow, it can strengthen relationships and build trust. And that's exactly where the compliment sandwich crumbles. Instead of offering clarity, it creates confusion.