Jul/Aug 2014

What you need to know about Bad Feminist, XL Love, and The Birth of Korean Cool.

• By Pacific Standard Staff

And it's called stereotype threat.

• By Pacific Standard Staff

Why can't triathletes and weightlifters get along?

• By Daniel Duane

It's almost always easier to cross international borders if you're something other than human.

• By Rose Dakin

The new American economy in three tablespoons of blood, a Walmart gift card, and a former mill town's DNA.

• By Amanda Wilson

For children, the benefits of being born in tough times can outweigh the costs.

• By Tom Jacobs

The latest entry in a series on subculture in America.

• By Ryan O'Hanlon

Swim lessons in international waters.

• By Bonnie Tsui

An old American obsession—the rogue detective's urge to crack the case—finds a new outlet.

• By Peter C. Baker

Surgery is a fundamentally messy and stressful activity. When being a few millimeters off target can be life-changing, a surgeon needs to possess fierce concentration, unrelenting perfectionism, and, above all, staunch self-assurance.

• By Wen Shen

In many situations, black men find themselves at a disadvantage. Gay men, too. But black gay men?

• By Tom Jacobs

In every issue, we fix our gaze on an everyday photograph and chase down facts about details in the frame.

• By Pacific Standard Staff

Humans are hardwired to go jelly-kneed around creatures with kinderschema—infant traits like big eyes, big head, and small body. Can we resist it?

• By Caroline Paul

Two brothers—a philosopher and a doctor—attempt to explain the cultural roots of madness.

• By Graeme Wood

Tracking the organ trade, anthropologist Nancy Scheper-Hughes visited African and South American dialysis units, organ banks, police morgues, and hospitals. She interviewed surgeons, patient's rights activists, pathologists, nephrologists, and nurses. So why aren't more people listening to her?

• By Ethan Watters

This list includes studies cited in our pages that received funding from a source other than the researchers’ home institutions. Only principal or corresponding authors are listed.

• By Pacific Standard Staff

Diverse neighborhoods, it turns out, aren’t just conducive to hipsters.

• By Tom Jacobs

From "The Wisdom of Music" to "The Human and Animal Bond," academic gatherings you should be aware of.

• By Pacific Standard Staff

Updates to past Pacific Standard print stories.

• By Pacific Standard Staff

Doctors today are too uncomfortable with uncertainty.

• By Sandeep Jauhar

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• By Pacific Standard Staff

Introducing Richard McNally, Amanda Wilson, Ethan Watters, Taffy Brodesser-Akner, and Wen Shen.

• By Pacific Standard Staff

One in 10 American adults struggles with depression, and women are twice as susceptible as men. Is facial paralysis the answer?

• By Taffy Brodesser-Akner

Public health wonks have figured out how to influence Hollywood writers: Don't call them, they'll call you.

• By Maggie Gram