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3 Signs You Are Too Creative for a 9-to-5
A "workday" is just not your thing.
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Eat the Whole Apple
Word of the apple core myth is spreading far.
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Sex Counts as 'Moderate Exercise'
Calories burned are the equivalent of 25 minutes of walking uphill, research says.
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Selfies at Funerals, Leaders-of-the-Free-World Edition
Everyone else is now absolved.
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Spreading HIV Is Still a Felony, Which May Abet Its Spread
Today the U.S. Senate will hear a bill to change the way many laws regard people with a chronic, treatable illness. Do laws that categorically criminalize HIV exposure, however unlikely the risk of transmission, actually increase its spread?
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An Organic Greenhouse Run by Farmers With Autism
This crowd-sourced project in Indiana is seeing an outpouring of support.
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Alexey Losevich/Shutterstock Experiments to Do With Your Baby
Recreate real scientific scenarios. Stimulate two minds. The little ones are fascinating.
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Do Cats Control My Mind?
New neuroscience research says that Toxo—the cysts in our brains from cats—can improve our self-control. For the 30 percent of people who have this infection, it's about more than promiscuity, schizophrenia, and car crashes.
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Charles Dharapak / AP Just Get It Over With
The psychology of doing unpleasant tasks sooner, which really is better
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Alan Cleaver/flickr Should Bystanders Intervene When They Identify Mental Illness?
In two days of training, people are learning to recognize conditions like bipolar disorder and schizophrenia in strangers, and what to do about it.
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China Daily CDIC / Reuters The Secret Life of Grief
My mom’s cancer and the science of resilience
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Warren Jorgensen / AP Male and Female Brains Really Are Built Differently
The hemispheres of women's brains are more interconnected. Does that matter?
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Everett Collection/Shutterstock Women Smiling With Turkeys
The halcyon days have passed. Stock photos remind us of a darker time, when the best thing to do with your turkey was to throw on a set of pearls and get glamorous.
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Answers to Every Possible Thanksgiving Health Question, 2013
This is going to be the best Thanksgiving ever. Prepare your body and mind accordingly.
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flickr The Diet From God
The Daniel fast is growing in popularity, often prompted by Christians’ desire for a deeper form of prayer. Many are reporting lasting physical benefits, too.
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'The Most Dramatic Advance in Treating Depression in Decades'
Focusing on getting quality sleep, specifically through cognitive behavioral therapy, is the talk of the moment in depression treatment.
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Shutterstock Online Dating, on the Autism Spectrum
Dating poses the same basic challenge for everyone: trusting someone else.
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Wikimedia Commons On the Vexing, Very Recent Spate of Healthy People Getting Neck Cancer
Over the next two decades, the number of Americans with oropharyngeal cancer is projected to roughly double. Most of the cases, doctors have realized in recent years, are caused by a preventable infection.
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Christian Charisius / Reuters Why We're Sometimes Kind Without Reason
Our brains are constantly, subtly being primed in fascinating ways by our physical surroundings.
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Shutterstock After the ICU: What Does It Mean to Be 'Okay'?
Patients who require intensive hospital care often go home with serious mental and emotional scars that go unaddressed. The ICU can be a microcosm of a healthcare system's inability to see bigger pictures for life after illness.
