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Obamacare Is Not a Secret Sex Directory
Confidentiality remains protected by law. Doctors will not become covert government agents. But the Affordable Care Act may get more physicians talking with patients about preventing sexually transmitted infections.
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YouTube 'Asian Eye' Surgery and Media Racism
Though Julie Chen has achieved success as a rare example of a visible Asian American news anchor and TV host, the industry pressured her to alter her face to look less like the people she represents.
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Wikimedia Commons ADHD, or Childhood Narcissism?
Ten times as many children are diagnosed with ADHD today as were in the 1970s. What if their behavior—consistently distracted, hyperactive, impulsive—really indicates something else?
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Popular Dystopian Burrito Campaign Implies Chipotle Is Not a Giant Fast-Food Chain
Drone bird tries to keep scarecrow quiet about industrialized farming, to no avail
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7 Classics Every Doctor Should Read
A reminder to think beyond textbooks and journals; to always be a student of the human condition
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How to Fast in Comfort
The simple tricks to atoning for a year of sin
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eflon/flickr Watching Mental Illness Take a Family Member
Laws protect the right to remain untreated, so unless the mentally ill become dangerous to themselves or others, you can't force them to see a doctor.
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Salvatore Laporta / AP Bullied for Not Believing in God
Despite secularism and atheism being on the rise, some areligious students feel discriminated against—at times violently. Now teachers across the U.S. are creating Secular Safe Zones to "curtail anti-atheist bullying, discrimination, and social isolation."
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Why 'Drink More Water'?
A massive American pro-water-drinking program launches today. It makes odd claims.
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Stephen Wheeler/flickr Who’s Afraid of a Cluster of Holes? 16 Percent of People
The first peer-reviewed research on the increasingly Internet-famous disorder
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Ilya Naymushin/Reuters How Much Should It Cost to Find God?
The spirituality and well-being industry continues to encourage seekers to invest in costly books, workshops, and other products. Are we being played?
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Bone Fone, the Terror!
Remembering the shawl that sent music through your bones
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Morris MacMatzen/Reuters Finding Happiness in Angry Music
Shiny happy heavy metal people: There’s something cleansing about engaging with emotions we might not usually let ourselves feel.
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BrownGuacamole/flickr Faking a Pregnancy Is Inadvisable; Courts Agree
But what if it's not to mislead an employer, only to elicit a marriage proposal?
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How Is U.S. Health Care Bad? [Chart]
An illustration of World Health Organization data on how the United States compares to 16 other countries
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China Daily CDIC / Reuters Sleep Deprivation Makes Us Appear Unattractive and Sad
New research says people are skilled at recognizing faces as tired. Compared to well-slept subjects, the sleep-deprived were perceived as having "darker circles under the eyes, paler skin, more wrinkles/fine lines, and more droopy corners of the mouth."
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flickr The Neuroscience of War
Understanding chemical weapons as the U.S. talks red lines and convenient morality
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The New Coffee Is Made for Your Skin
One pocket-sized bottle of "Sprayable Energy," a prototype caffeinated skin spray, contains the equivalent of 40 cups of coffee. Demand for the product is already feverish.
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YouTube Study: People May Naturally Be Lovers or Haters
A personality trait called "dispositional attitude" can predict whether people will like or dislike something new.
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How Not to Eat a Watermelon
The fascinating story of the original "shock jock" and voice of 1970s D.C., Petey Greene
