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Research examines dance as protest in Iran

Young women in postrevolutionary Iran used audacious acts of public dance, particularly during the past decade, to resist unjust gender-based laws and cultural norms that disenfranchise women, a University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign sociology scholar says in a digital ethnographic study.

Roman urbanism was bad for health, new study confirms

Analysis of skeletal remains from England before and during Roman occupation confirms theories that the population’s health declined under Roman occupation, but only in the urban centers, suggesting pre-Roman traditions continued in rural parts of Roman Britain while those in…