https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/social-justice-movements-exomoons-and-a-century-of-bird-banding/

In our powerful cover story this month, sociologist Aldon Morris explains how social justice movements succeed. When the Civil Rights Movement began, some social scientists were dismissive of activists and described protests as unthinking mobs. Morris and his colleagues conducted immersive interviews with leaders of the Civil Rights Movement and similar struggles against injustice around the world and found that meticulous planning, cultural resources, discipline and creativity powered the movements, along with emotions ranging from righteous indignation to empathy and love. The Black Lives Matter movement has taken the baton from the Civil Rights era, and as Morris points out, “these struggles necessarily (and excitingly) continue to evolve faster than social scientists can comprehend them.”

One of the first great cities of the world was established about 7000 B.C.E. and lasted for 2,000 years. Çatalhöyük wasn't organized around marketplaces or monuments; people who lived there were homebodies who conducted work and rituals within their houses, which they entered through the ceiling. Author Annalee Newitz (who also writes fantastic science-fiction novels) shares what archaeologists have learned about the metropolis, including what people there ate and how they warmed their beds.