Watered-down LGBTQ ‘understanding’ bill shows how far Japan’s parliament is out of step with its society – and history
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Everyone in the world has twenty-four hours, but how do they spend their time? This is what the average human day looks like.
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Sweden set up a eugenics plan, grounded in the science of racial biology, between 1934 and 1976 – between 20,000 and 33,000 Swedes were forced to be sterilised
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Brazil sends thousands of Venezuelan migrants to country's rich southern states
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Taiwan grants right of adoption to same-sex couples in latest move toward full equality
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Cognitive endurance as human capital
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How Urban Company built an empire of female Indian gig workers
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US lawmakers are being silenced for speaking out against anti-trans bills
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A peer reviewed paper on walkable neighbourhoods finds that walkability improves residents' happiness
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The reasons behind France’s pension protests
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Swedish retirees demand fairer pensions for women – The Old Lady Patrol's protest against the country's pension system enters its tenth year
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Munger Hall: A billionaire's bizarre social experiment
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Artificial intelligence in communication impacts language and social relationships
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Once praised for its generous social safety net, Denmark now collects troves of data on welfare claimants
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How to offer help when you don’t know what to say
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Yale academic suggests mass suicide for Japan’s elderly
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Finland has passed a new, progressive rights law which makes it substantially easier for trans people to change their legal gender
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The first ordinary woman in English literature. The life and legacy of the Wife of Bath.
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US citizens can now sponsor refugees directly. Here’s how to apply.
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Norway's golden generation of athletes proves the value of sport as a public good – commitment to making the “joy of sport” available to all is producing world-class talent
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Longitudinal study of kindergarteners suggests spanking is harmful for children’s social competence
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UK government to block Scottish gender bill
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Listening to podcasts may help satisfy our psychological need for social connection, study finds
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US President Joe Biden signs marriage equality bill into law
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The elements of change: A grand unified theory of self-help
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Thousands of women in Greenland, including some as young as twelve, had a contraceptive device implanted in their womb, often without consent
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South Koreans are getting a year younger, parliament rules
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Fast-rising electricity bills and surging food price inflation are taking their toll in Sweden – Matmissionen and the social stores offering food at rock-bottom prices
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Same-sex marriage is now legal in all of Mexico's states
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Defective altruism - the repugnant philosophy of “Effective Altruism” offers nothing to movements for global justice
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Denmark and Greenland have formally agreed to launch a two-year investigation into historic birth control practices carried out for many years on Inuit Greenlanders
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US child poverty rate at an all-time low
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New LGBTQ+ plan presented by the Danish government includes a proposal to expand access to legal gender change to all children regardless of age
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The reluctant prophet of effective altruism: William MacAskill's movement set out to help global poor. Now his followers fret about runaway AI. Have they seen our threats clearly, or lost their way?
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Denmark's controversial family policy sees many Danish parents fleeing to nearby countries, especially to the German border city of Flensburg
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Couples wed as Swiss same-sex marriage law takes effect
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‘Am I even fit to be a mom?’ Diaper need is an invisible part of poverty in America.
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Six indigenous Greenlanders taken as children to Denmark in a failed social experiment in 1951 are demanding compensation from the Danish state
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Witness History spoke to photographer Mark Edwards, who was given unique access to document a famously photo shy community of Christiania in Denmark
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To make social structures more equal, we can’t blind ourselves to genetics
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Denmark's hippie, psychedelic oasis Christiania turns fifty – celebration over four days includes parades, speeches, exhibitions, workshops, shows and concerts
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China's media cracks down on 'effeminate' styles
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Danish government has presented a proposal to get foreigners and people with immigrant backgrounds to work thirty-seven hours a week in exchange for welfare benefits
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Dutch cities want to ban property investors in all neighborhoods
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China cuts amount of time minors can spend playing online video games to three hours a week, with an hour extra during holidays
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Online trolls actually just assholes all the time, study finds
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Evidence of fraud in an influential field experiment about dishonesty
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The success of Iceland's 'four-day week' trial has been greatly overstated
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Neurotype-matching, but not being autistic, influences self and observer ratings of interpersonal rapport
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Why some biologists and ecologists think social media is a risk to humanity
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