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We’re in for a lot of weird weather.
“I’m sorry Dave; I’m afraid I can’t do that.”
If you knew the flu was going around your office, wouldn’t it be nice to work at home for the day?
Even when everything sucks, you can still feel thankful.
Research now says that we all react differently to the same foods. Maybe grabbing that cookie isn’t as bad as we thought it was.
Nature versus nurture is back, and this time it’s about happiness. Do our behaviors make us happy, or does our brain?
Terrorists exploit the “glamor of action movies, video games, and gangsta rap.” Counterterrorist efforts somehow have to counter that glamorization.
When we fear, we band together, and more readily treat people in other tribes as the enemy.
Those who want to keep Syrian refugees out of the country are succumbing to a classic error of logical reasoning.
The researcher behind the famed Dunning-Kruger Effect has found expertise can lead us to claim impossible knowledge.
Science says Syndrome-E can tell us who is and isn’t evil, but how we really know and what we can do about it isn’t so simple.
Away from the dinner table.
The ability to laugh during dark times gives us strength, community, and hope.
Even if you have a good emotional mask, there’s a computer that can see through the cracks.
Most of us are reasonable, thoughtful people. Why can’t we stop texting, emailing, and posting status updates while driving?
A new study shows that mindfulness meditation can reduce our physical and emotional pain. But what is mindfulness and how do we practice it?
The big story that probably most shapes our times is too simple. We can’t afford to go on ignoring its plot holes and more complex dark side.
It’s a brave new world.
An engineering professor at Oakland University has a surprising answer.
When a trophy just for showing up does more damage than good.
A new study shows how children who face difficult times grow up to be anxious adults. Luckily, there’s something we all can do.
A new study says people who worry are better prepared than those who don’t — but that’s not the whole story.
Climate change doesn’t have the emotional characteristics that make it truly deep-in-your-heart scary. Leaders will have to act anyway.
NASA data from the Ice, Cloud and land Elevation Satellite (ICES) indicates that there have been “mass gains from snow accumulation” that “exceeded discharge losses” from the thinning glaciers.
Whatever the cause or the reason for the presence of fungus in Alzheimer’s patients, it highlights the notion that we know less than we think about fungi.
Star Trek’s ideal view of medicine is closer than we think.
Lab-grown meat will be on our plates sooner than we may realize.
If we have serious ambitions to live on Mars, it might be.
Let’s talk about the facts, which include why you totally can eat bacon.