Sociologist Talcott Parsons observed that social institutions have two functions: the written “manifest” function and the unwritten “latent” function. In many cases, the latent function is as ...

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Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. author of Chained to the Desk in a Hybrid World: A Guide to Balance. You might have noticed that some people seem to scale the ...

A conspicuous economic divide in the U.S. has persisted between workers with college degrees and workers without them. Social policy since World War II has been built on the idea that people from ...

Those who abstained for a month reported feeling happier, that they lost weight, and that they had more energy. They also saw ...

Gain-of-function research (GOFR) refers to the serial passaging of microorganisms to increase their transmissibility, virulence, immunogenicity, and host tropism by applying selective pressure to a ...