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Search 3,721 documents across 34 fields — every claim tier-rated by evidence
3,633 are the core, quality-scored corpus (34 lettered sections — see How We Work); the remaining 88 are cross-corpus synthesis documents (68 InterDocs, 12 Connections, 8 Theories) also indexed here.
3,434 results for "cluster B" — page 53 of 172
INTERDOC_21 — Meditation, Mysticism, and the Neuroscience Bridge
[KEY FINDING] Richard Davidson's lab at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, beginning in 2004, demonstrated that long-term meditators (>10,000 hours) — particularly Tibetan Buddhist monks — generate gamma wave oscillati
INTERDOC_22 — Near-Death Experience, Afterlife Belief, and Cross-Cultural Evidence
[KEY FINDING] The AWARE (AWAreness during REsuscitation) study — a four-year prospective study across 15 hospitals in the UK, US, and Austria, led by Sam Parnia (published 2014, Resuscitation) — found that 39% of 140 car
INTERDOC_42 — The Serpent Being: Humanity's Oldest and Most Inverted Mythology
[KEY FINDING] Before the rise of Indo-European and Abrahamic traditions, serpent beings were the most widely venerated entity category on Earth:
INTERDOC_47 — Islamic Institutional Suppression: A Comprehensive Timeline of Knowledge Control By and Against the Muslim World
Suppression events in this timeline are categorized by mechanism: S-active (deliberate targeted action by an identifiable actor — book burnings, executions, physical destruction), S-structural (institutional gatekeeping
INTERDOC_48 — Hindu Institutional Suppression: A Comprehensive Timeline of Knowledge Control By and Against Hindu Traditions
Hindu suppression operates across three categories: (1) Suppression BY Hindu institutions — the Brahmanical caste/varna system as formalized in the Manusmriti (~200 BCE–200 CE), which prescribed that a Shudra who "listen
INTERDOC_11 — Mitochondrial Eve, Y-Chromosomal Adam, and the Convergence Problem
Mitochondrial Eve — the most recent common ancestor (MRCA) of all living humans through an unbroken maternal line — was identified through mtDNA analysis by Rebecca Cann, Mark Stoneking, and Allan Wilson at UC Berkeley i
INTERDOC_18 — Volcanic Winter, the Bronze Age Collapse, and Civilizational Fragility
The Thera eruption (Santorini, ~1628 BCE or ~1530 BCE — dating remains contested) ejected an estimated 60 km³ of material — four times the volume of Krakatoa (1883). Ice core evidence from Greenland (GISP2) and tree-ring
INTERDOC_15 — Astronomical Alignment as Global Pattern
Human civilizations on every inhabited continent independently developed monumental architecture precisely aligned to astronomical events — solstices, equinoxes, cardinal directions, and specific stellar risings. Newgran
INTERDOC_17 — Navigation, Seafaring, and the Lost Maritime Web
The Austronesian expansion — beginning ~3500 BCE from Taiwan and reaching Madagascar (~500 CE), Hawaii (~1000 CE), and New Zealand (~1250 CE) — represents the greatest sustained maritime achievement of the pre-modern wor
ZB_5_25 — Animal Migration: Navigation, Endurance, and Ecological Connectivity
Animal migration — the seasonal, round-trip movement of populations between distinct habitats — represents some of the most extraordinary feats of endurance, navigation, and sensory capability in biology. Arctic terns (S
ZB_5_06 — Mass Extinction Ecology: Catastrophe, Recovery, and Evolutionary Reset
Mass extinctions — episodes in which >75% of species disappear within a geologically brief interval — have profoundly shaped the history of life on Earth, acting as ecological and evolutionary resets that eliminate domin
ZB_5_10 — Disturbance Ecology: Fire, Flood, and Forest Dynamics
Disturbance ecology investigates how natural and anthropogenic perturbations — fire, wind, flood, drought, volcanic eruption, logging, grazing, landslides, and insect outbreaks — influence ecosystem structure, species di
ZB_4_13 — Historical Ecology: Human-Ecosystem Co-Evolution through Time
Historical ecology investigates how human land use, management, domestication, exploitation, and settlement over centuries to millennia have shaped contemporary ecosystems, landscapes, and biodiversity patterns — reveali
ZC_3_14 — Globalization: Flows, Frictions, and Fragmentation
Globalization refers to the intensification of worldwide social, economic, political, and cultural interconnections — the increasing flow of capital, goods, services, people, ideas, information, and cultural forms across
ZC_3_15 — Political Economy: Capitalism, Labor, and Institutional Structure
Political economy studies the interrelationship between political power and economic processes — how states, markets, classes, institutions, and ideologies shape the production, distribution, and consumption of wealth. T
ZC_5_10 — Sociology of Disaster: Vulnerability, Resilience, and Social Amplification of Risk
The sociology of disaster studies the social dimensions of catastrophic events — earthquakes, floods, hurricanes, pandemics, industrial accidents, nuclear meltdowns, wildfires, and increasingly, climate-driven extreme ev
ZC_5_04 — Social Movements: Collective Action, Mobilization, and Protest
Social movements are sustained, organized collective efforts by non-institutional actors to promote or resist social, political, economic, or cultural change through unconventional means — including protest, civil disobe
ZC_5_14 — Sociology of Incarceration: Mass Imprisonment, the Carceral State, and Abolition
The sociology of incarceration examines imprisonment as a social institution — analyzing its functions, history, racial and class dimensions, effects on individuals and communities, and its relationship to broader struct
ZC_1_01 — Social Psychology — Conformity, Obedience, and Group Dynamics
Social psychology examines how individuals think, feel, and behave in social contexts. Landmark experiments by Milgram (obedience to authority), Asch (conformity to majority opinion), and Zimbardo (situational power of r
ZC_1_07 — Behavioral Economics — Nudge Theory & Decision-Making
Behavioral economics integrates psychological insights into economic models of human decision-making, challenging the neoclassical assumption of perfectly rational "Homo economicus" and documenting systematic deviations
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