In South Africa, several forms of trance dance are depicted in the rock art. These scenes typically show clapping female figures accompanying male dancers, who are often shown bending forward. In some ...

While conducting research on how AI was changing daily work at a U.S. technology company, a UC Berkeley Haas doctoral student noticed a pattern that raised a provocative question: What if AI is ...

This week, Mad in America examines three articles around peer support in mental healthcare settings, including the creation ...

A new study tests the hypothesis that the consumption of the mind-altering beverage kava facilitated the emergence of complex ...

The rapid proliferation of algorithmic systems has sparked widespread concerns about their potential to perpetuate and ...

Today’s MBA graduates are entering a world in which data is a commodity. What distinguishes an astute leader from a competent ...

Scholars argued that the alternative media ecosystem is reshaping ideas about gender, politics and beauty at an event on ...

Seeing a disabled person as fully human takes what one philosopher calls "moral energy." For families, that energy runs out—not because they stop caring, but because no one helps.

New Liberal leader Angus Taylor, having previously painted China as a security threat, may need to change his rhetoric.

To escape endless scrolling, email and news alerts, more people are turning to older tech to regain control of their lives.

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An intimate autoethnographic account of cultural liminality, migration's impact on identity, and the emergence of hybrid ethnicities in a globalized world. A sociology student's journey from ...