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Making the leap from renting to buying isn't always what it seems. Homeowners spend less time on leisure activities with friends and report that they derived some pain from homeownership.
Opposition to the ideas of others is too often framed in terms of cynicism, resulting in the objector being labeled as steadfastly against action, progress, change, and other forms taken to be universally good.
New research completed at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis has identified a specific gene that may help manage our skill level for organizing things logically. 
More important than the effect power has on its beholder is the person's intentions, outlook and values. That power corrupts tells us more about the person who held it than about an indelible nature of power.
The history lesson in Zimmerman's acquittal in the murder of Trayvon Martin
Researchers at Harvard Business School have found that small mobile devices which close your posture off to the world also close your attention, weakening you ability to engage the world around you.
A new study published in the journal Environmental Research Letters found that air pollution, caused by fine particles capable of penetrating deep into the lungs, is responsible for 2.1 million deaths annually. 
Even using unqualified life expectancy figures, the US is falling behind other nations, but we should not be blinded by our attempt to increase longevity without a concern for quality of life.
All that it takes to cope with the death of a loved one is the philosophical habit of turning easily understood ideas into the more difficult practice of how you perceive the world day by day.
A study of 159 men and women enrolled in cognitive behavioral therapy has found that those patients who believed in God were more likely to receive the benefits of the therapy.
I think you have a very different perspective on the future when you consider the exponential growth of information technology.  
My prediction is, in a few decades, we will come to accept entities that are not biological as conscious. 
We will have abundance in terms of knowledge and equality and we won’t have the bottom billion anymore, but what I call the rising billion.  
And as someone who has a really terrible driving record I can't wait for autonomous cars to come out.
Religious Americans are better neighbors and better citizens in a way. 
In metallurgy, an alloy is a mixture of two different metals that has different properties than either of those metals taken separately. 
Ideas spread around not just through human word-of-mouth. 
The easiest way to get Americans, in particular, onboard programming is by frightening the bejesus out of them. 
Scientists at MIT are hoping to map the 86 billion connected neurons in your brain, and have developed a browser game for you to help them accomplish this.