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Leah Riley/flickr Putting the 'Home' in Nursing Home
Redesigning senior living spaces to feel less institutional
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TechCocktail/flickr Speed-Dating in the Time of Tinder
Even as apps and websites have taken over, some prefer an analog courtship ritual
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Denis Defreyne/flickr The Nazis' Forgotten Anti-Smoking Campaign
The Third Reich viewed tobacco as a threat to the health of the "chosen folk."
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Shutterstock How Childhood Trauma Could Be Mistaken for ADHD
Some experts say the normal effects of severe adversity may be misdiagnosed as ADHD.
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John Javellana/Reuters We're Already Designing Babies
Even today, parents are selecting for the traits they want in their offspring. But how far should the genetic tailoring go?
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Jeff Gunn/Flickr When Is Health Insurance Too Affordable?
How Obamacare's insurance mandate is playing out in one unhealthy county
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Aris Messinis/AFP/Getty Healthcare, Meet Capitalism
If transparent competition can drive the reinvention of U.S. healthcare, some creative thinkers stand to become unabashedly wealthy—and improve the quality of care in the process.
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Bebeto Matthews/AP How Solitary Confinement Hurts the Teenage Brain
Teens isolated in prison can suffer from mental health consequences for years.
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gniliep/flickr What's So Controversial About the Contraceptives in Hobby Lobby
Surprise: The Supreme Court hasn't defined "conception" in a new ruling on religious freedom.
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bixentro/Flickr Can Health Insurance Be Less Bad?
Oscar, an insurance start-up, aims to not crush the policyholder's soul.
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Thomas Leuthard/flickr Exchanging Sex for Survival
So-called "safe harbor" laws may help, but they overlook the vast number of teen runaways who use their bodies as their only form of currency.
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Chris Helgren/Reuters The Dark Knight of the Soul
For some, meditation has become more curse than cure. Willoughby Britton wants to know why.
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Shutterstock The Powerful History of Potty Training
Scientists have long tended to attribute a person's personality to how they were toilet trained—especially during times of political turmoil.
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Shutterstock Teaching Sexual-Assault Prevention Through Comedy
Sex Signals' improv show focusing on bystander intervention has seen success on college campuses—and is now being adopted by the military as well.
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AP/Courtesy 5 Gyres How Face Wash Pollutes Water
Illinois recently passed a law banning plastic microbeads, often found in soap, which can slip through treatment plants and end up in waterways.
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Saul Loeb/Getty Forget Calories
Counting calories is misguided. The focus belongs on food.
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Sodanie Chea/flickr Schrödinger's Cigarette: Is Electronic Safer?
Tobacco companies want to provide smokers with the "reduced-risk" products they desire. But until there's been more time to do research, using e-cigarettes can't be considered a safe choice.
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Lucy Nicholson/Reuters How Neuroscience Reinforces Racist Drug Policy
Brain scans do not speak for themselves. The seemingly objective science of neuroimaging can be used to justify a moral argument for or against legal marijuana—to show it as a legitimate medicine, or as a danger to your health.
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Rick Bowmer/AP An Interactive Air-Pollution Map
One quarter of the global population is breathing unsafe air. Where is it worst?
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Kai Pfaffenbach/Reuters How Boys Teach Each Other to Be Boys
Taking cues from family and media, young boys teach their peers how to perform masculinity, to their detriment.
