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What Scars Say About Sex and Stereotypes
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People’s perceptions of scars—from ritual scarification to mastectomy marks—reveal biases about gender, character, and more.
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“Warspeak” Puts All of Us in the Trenches
Robert Myers
From campaign “war rooms” to “battleground states,” the political lexicon in the U.S. distorts people’s experiences of others and of communal life.
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The Making of a Wrinkle Convert
Robert Myers
A cultural anthropologist stages a small rebellion by embracing the lines on his face.
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