Orion Jones

“Any couple who choose to consummate their sexual cravings, then that act becomes a total commitment with adherence to all consequences that may follow,” said the Court’s ruling.

The amount of student loans shouldered by the nation’s young adults is keeping them from buying their first home, which has traditionally been a bedrock of an upward trending US economy.

Our fascination with celebrity is a product of the modern era but its explanation may have roots deep within the biology of our brain. Culturally, it has benefited our species to imitate leaders. 

A new study of the brain’s biology completed at Columbia University has overturned the accepted theory for how humans process higher-order thoughts, such as reflecting on the past and planning for the future.

The lone-wolf vision of creative genius is giving way to a more community-friendly concept of innovation where the different talents of many create scientific breakthroughs.

Mindfulness meditation, a process through which the practitioner becomes more aware of his or her own thoughts and emotions, is gaining in popularity across the United States.

The search for an authentic life, in which one is always on the path toward personal growth, is a destructive tendency of modern life, say philosophy professor Simon Critchley and psychoanalyst Jamieson Webster.

The rise of Lyme disease, virtually unknown until 1977, is thought to be due in part to the vast urbanization of the Northeast coast as wide forests were divided into much smaller neighborhoods.

In order for a substance to be regulated like alcohol, it must fit four specific criteria: ubiquity, toxicity, addictiveness, and be bad for society has a whole. Sugar fits these categories easily.

Called chimeras, animals that share essentially human biological qualities, such as human organs from the liver to the brain, are under development in Japan as a way of harvesting organs for transplant.

Sugary foods and other processed carbohydrates, such as bagels, white rice, juice and soda, stimulate areas of the brain that control for hunger to a greater degree than whole.

A recent survey of nearly 4,000 American college students reveals that those who have casual sex are also more likely to suffer from states of anxiety and depression.

Government cultural authorities in Uzbekistan have barred a number of popular musicians from performing their work live, branding the content of their songs as “meaningless”.

In this episode of The Amazing Adventures of Edward Snowden, our hero fools a cadre of journalists into believing he is en route to Havana in search of political asylum.

In Brazilian favelas, citizens are demonstrating to increase the pubic’s awareness of how funds and development projects for the upcoming 2014 World Cup will affect the country’s native population.

To raise funds needed for renovation, the St. Brother Albert Homeless Shelter in central Poland is offering a course in urban survival, teaching its students how to live in the concrete jungle without money.

Faced with the prospect of long journeys to the city, which costs transportation fees and commuting time, it is no wonder why many capable workers prefer to remain in their villages with their families.

The only way in which we can bring our creative resources fully into play is by misjudging the nature of the task, by presenting it to ourselves as more routine than it will turn out to be.

If you have a play list you listen to while exercising, you are one of many who find music a helpful physical aid. But what is it about music that gets us going? 

Scientists at the University of Veterinary Medicine, Vienna, have found relationship between pet owners and dogs to be highly similar to the deep connection between young children and their parents.

While technologies create seamless payments online and at department stores, the result is a kind of instant gratification that may harm our greater sense of fulfillment.

The most detailed map of the human brain ever completed is now available for perusal online, giving neuroscientists a greater understanding of how cells are grouped and arranged inside the brain. 

Despite having 30-year lifespans, mole rats are known in scientific circles to be cancer proof. Researchers think their resistance is thanks to tissue very rich with high molecular weight hyaluronan (HMW-HA).

MIT medical researchers have created an algorithm that accurately measures a person’s pulse by tracking how the head moves involuntarily when blood is pumped from the heart to the brain.

Smoke-free products such as electronic cigarettes are a safer alternative to smoking cigarettes, despite the FDA’s obstinate refusal to permit companies from saying so.

Silver, known since ancient times to have antimicrobial properties, can disrupt bacteria and possibly deal with the modern scourge of antibiotic resistant bacteria, say Boston University researchers.

If you can’t make it out to a cafe, a new website allows you to bring the bustling energy directly to your computer. The site is called Coffitivity. It’s free and plays an ambient coffee shop soundtrack.

The election of moderate Iranian presidential candidate Hassan Rohani represents an opportunity for the West to engage Iran with fresh negotiations over its nuclear energy program.

Edward Snowden, the whistleblower who went public with the NSA’s clandestine data mining operation, forms part of an increasing crossover between government and private cybersecurity organizations.

A massive urban development program, in which the Chinese government aims to relocate 250 million peasant farmers to burgeoning urban centers, is set to begin in earnest this fall.