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Nuts: My Anti-Death
People who eat a handful of nuts seven times per week are less likely to die young, says a large Harvard study today.
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Calgary Reviews/flickr Study: Fast-Food Culture Hinders Our Ability to Savor Life
Subjects exposed to images of fast food seemed less able to enjoy simple pleasures.
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Jim Hollander/Reuters How Does One Enjoy a Bullfight?
Experiencing firsthand the choices we make when watching violence as entertainment
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Murad Sezer / Reuters How Many of Your Memories Are Fake?
When people with Highly Superior Autobiographical Memory—those who can remember what they ate for breakfast on a specific day 10 years ago—are tested for accuracy, researchers find what goes into false memories.
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Shutterstock As Babies, We Knew Morality
New research supports the understanding that all people are born with a sense of good and bad. What does that say about altruism, community, and the capacity to kill one another?
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Apple Cores Are a Myth
You can eat the whole apple. Americans could be throwing away $13.2 billion.
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Corbis Historical / Getty Your Zodiac Sign, Your Health
Many doctors used to take astrology seriously—and season of birth has been linked to increased risk for a number of serious diseases. Can modern medicine actually learn from stars and seasonality?
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Wikimedia Commons All Bullies Are Narcissists
Stories of bullying and hazing in the news break down to narcissism and insecurity.
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The Cancer Vaccine
Only one in three American girls is vaccinated against HPV. That will mean thousands of gratuitous cancer deaths. Young people in the South are especially unlikely to get the vaccine, according to a new study. Why?
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Jade Sadeghian/flickr Drugs Will Kill Your Friends
Comedian Rob Delaney reflects on his time in rehab.
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Wikimedia Commons How the Brain Creates Personality: A New Theory
Are you a mover, a perceiver, a stimulator, or an adapter? Modes of thinking can be understood in terms of how the top and bottom—rather than right and left—parts of the brain interact.
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Vasily Fedosenko / Reuters Obsessive Thoughts: A Darker Side of OCD
Depictions in media tend to focus on the compulsive behavior. Obsessive thinking like mine, though, can be debilitating.
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Walt Stoneburner/flickr A Same-Sex Domestic Violence Epidemic Is Silent
Typical framing of partner abuse as a heterosexual issue—with men abusing women—does a disservice to victims in abusive homosexual relationships.
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Watch Kids React to Gay Marriage
This video of kids watching same-sex marriage proposals has already been viewed 2 million times in the 48 hours since it was posted. What does that say?
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Saad Faruque/flickr The Drugs of Work-Performance Enhancement
A step beyond caffeine, Adderall and other common ADHD medications can improve productivity and focus—even when medical necessity remains debatable.
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Wikimedia Commons Why Do Some Brains Enjoy Fear?
The science behind the appeal of haunted houses, freak shows, and physical thrills
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A Real-Time Map of Births and Deaths
This simulation gives an eerily omniscient vantage on the world as it fills.
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Shutterstock In Lieu of Candy, Woman Handing Out This Letter That Says Child Is Fat
Unsolicited neighborhood judgment is not how childhood obesity is best addressed.
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Selfies at Funerals
A new Tumblr compiles self-portraits taken at funerals and shared with the world. Here are a few, interspersed with more traditional efforts at celebrating life and publicly reflecting on mortality.
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Francois Lenoir/Reuters How to Cultivate Disgust
When psychologists want to elicit disgust, they avail themselves of invertebrates. Why do we find insects so repulsive? What is disgusting?
