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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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jbcurio/flickr What Happened to the Doctors' Lounge?
The lounge was once a place for physicians to regroup and congregate. Today, where lounges do exist, they are places for paperwork.
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NBC How CPR Became So Popular
'Medical creep' happens when doctors perform procedures or prescribe treatments for patients in the absence of clear evidence that patients will benefit. The slow changes can gradually transform the structure of our healthcare system—sometimes for the better.
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In Between the FDA and Pharma, People Wait for Treatments
It's easy to be skeptical of drug companies. But those of us with polycystic kidney disease, a potentially fatal genetic disorder, stringent FDA regulation seems to be taking away hope.
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Julio Cortez/AP A Marathon Happens in the Middle
Instead of running the New York marathon last year, I volunteered with Hurricane Sandy victims. It wasn't all that different.
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Danny Moloshok / Reuters Why Does Pop Romanticize Dying Young?
Narcissism, the economy, and a fascination with gangster culture all play into the resurgence of "live fast, die young" themes in today's pop culture.
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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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Shutterstock When Physicians' Careers Suffer Because They Refuse to Prescribe Narcotics
In some new systems where doctors are reviewed by patients, physicians unwilling to supply addicts with pain pills receive poor patient-satisfaction feedback. That is judged as poor performance by hospital administrators.
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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?
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jeffeaton/flickr Marijuana and the Modern Lady
What it means that more women are defending pot as a natural form of relaxation
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If Your Heart Stopped Tonight
An ICU physician on taking time to discuss with patients how they see their final days
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Shutterstock The Tragedy of Common-Sense Morality
Why do people fight so much?
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GollyGForce/flickr Study: Childhood Poverty Linked to Less Emotional Regulation Later in Life
Stressors of poverty play out in many ways.
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Mike Blake/Reuters Why Football Must Get Safer
If new rules aren't enough to protect players, the game could fade away. Parents will increasingly keep kids out of the sport rather than expose them to the risk.
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How to Win Bros and Influence Bros
Young, healthy people must buy insurance for the healthcare law to succeed. Pro and anti-Obamacare groups are trying piteously to bro down.
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(ralph and jenny/flickr; Romtomtom/flickr; Carly & Art/flickr; matsuyuki/flickr) How Superstition Works
Good-luck socks, numbers, and stars: Magical thinking remains popular across cultures and professions.
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Austin Kleon/Tumblr I Wasn't to Write 'Rape'
In an email from my editor-in-chief, I learned that our liberal, feminist website was to stop using the words "abortion," "rape," and "vagina."
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Japan Pool/AP How Fukushima Is Contaminating More Water
And yet the health risks have been exaggerated.
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Dangerous Stamps
New fitness-themed postage stamps were put on hold due to government concerns over the safety of headstands and cannonballs.
