In The News: Department of Sociology
More and more studies show that our idea of two sexes is too simplistic - not only anatomically, but genetically as well.
Biologists believe that gender has a more complex spectrum, and that the idea of dividing people into two genders is too simple. But these findings will be out of place in a world of duality that is either or both.
On the basis of genetic and biological studies, it seems that the strict division of sex into two categories makes it too simplistic for reality.
The idea of two sexes is simplistic. Biologists now think there is a wider spectrum than that.
For much of Nevada’s history, the deadliest piece of machinery within its boundaries was the automobile. But now, rising numbers of people taking their own lives with guns has left the Silver State with a new, depressing distinction.
Remember the "good ol’ days" when summer vacation meant watching "Charlie’s Angels" and roaming the streets at all hours? When no child had heard of organic kale chips and lunch was fried bologna with a Tab?
Las Vegas is a long way from the Himalayas, where Ranita Ray grew up in a boarding school close to the Nepalese border. But poverty is universal, and studying it is Ray’s specialty.