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Tim Green / Getty Living Myths About Virginity
Vacuums of reliable information and sexism in popular culture can have serious consequences for women's health.
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AP Photo/Ivan Sekretarev Study: Feeling In Control Prolongs Life
Having a strong sense of control over your circumstances reduces the risk of dying by 13 percent, and can offset the negative health effects of getting less education.
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Matti Mattila/flickr Can Psychopaths Be Rehabilitated?
The complications of sentencing psychopathic criminals
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Volker Rauch / Shutterstock The Town That's Building Life Around Sleep
Most people are socialized not to sleep when their bodies naturally want to. A small town in Germany wants to change that.
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Kaiser Health News How Community Health Workers Dramatically Improve Healthcare
Popular in some countries and catching on in the U.S., community health workers fill gaping holes in care.
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Diego Velázquez (Wikimedia) Personal Identity Is (Mostly) Performance
Wearing, showing, and sharing the many things that make up your personal presence helps you understand yourself.
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jbcurio/flickr The Death of the Cool Feminist Smoker
Forty years ago, women's lib was used to peddle cigarettes.
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Let the Cold Hand of Science Direct You to Perfect Love
Research on what makes relationships last, in easily memorizable verse
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Muhammed Hamed/Reuters Working at a Women's Clinic in a Syrian Refugee Camp
As Syrian peace talks continue, women in refugee camps face a lack of basic resources and the loss of a structured community.
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Jim Young / Reuters The New Way to Love Food
The "every-other-day diet" involves one day of eating whatever you want, followed by a day of eating very little.
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Imperial War Museums/Wikimedia Commons When Doctors Make You Feel Guilty
Feeling ashamed of the bad behavior, instead of feeling ashamed of yourself, leads to better outcomes.
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Jon Elswick/AP Newly Insured Americans Don’t Understand Basic Healthcare Terms
Why increasing health literacy should be a national priority
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Tomás Fano/flickr How the Internet Helped Me Cope With My Rare Disease
I have a condition that causes profound, random swelling and hives. The thing that’s helped me most so far is the amazing communities I've found online.
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Vintage Cigarette Ads: Watch the Glamour Fade
It was 50 years ago this month the Surgeon General's Report on Smoking and Health shed new light on the direct links between smoking and public health.
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lovelihood/flickr Looking to Quell Sexual Urges? Consider the Graham Cracker
One of America's first diet hawks, Sylvester Graham was certain that sexual desire was ruining society. His solution: whole wheat. How a zealot's legacy lives in our foods today.
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Eleaf/flickr How Not to Write an Online Dating Message
Six trite, absurd, insulting, expressions of the soul-sucking vortex known as humanity
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How to React When a Man Falls Through Your Ceiling
"Hey Ryan." "Hey Billy." The viral-video health parable of the day.
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Will It Fly? Bicycle Desk Edition
NASA's social network discusses the potential of bicycle desk technology, and harnessing the energy of a workout
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SamuelJohn.de/flickr Impact Factor and the Future of Medical Journals
Some research publications are getting away from flawed measures of influence that make it easy to game the system.
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thomaswanhoff/flickr Where Life Has Meaning: Poor, Religious Countries
Research indicates that lack of religion is a key reason why people in wealthy countries don't feel a sense of purpose.
