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Screening teenagers for mental illness should become routine in doctors' offices nationwide as a part of preventative care, experts from the nonprofit program TeenScreen have said.
The super-human abilities of sports superstars like Roger Federer and Tiger Woods are self-fulfilling prophecies, says Jonah Lehrer. Because of their status, their opponents choke.
Have you ever made a mistake while trying to execute the most rudimentary of tasks? Scientists have begun to understand why the brain sometimes loses its concentration for no good reason.
Since 2007, legislative concessions won by the National Rifle Association have made it easier for the mentally ill to reclaim their right to bear arms, sometimes with terrible consequences.
Quick note for this evening - Twitter follower @ikmar made me aware of an eruption at Soputan in Indonesia. The little news I've found about the eruption (Indonesian) have been […]
Washington was scandalized recently when MSNBC analyst Mark Halperin called President Obama "a dick” on Morning Joe. Halperin quickly apologized and was suspended for the remark, which he admitted was […]
When I dropped my daughter and her friends off at their senior prom last week I thought it would be fun to take a walk into the foyer of the […]
The words in every story I read about the Dominique Strauss-Kahn rape case seem to trill at the thought that he may go free. I am seriously convinced that we […]
In numerous health surveys around the world many smokers report that graphic images motivate them to quit. Non-smokers say they feel deterred from ever picking up a pack.
In recent years H.I.V. has begun to take a disproportionate toll on the southern U.S., including rural areas. What explains the disturbing numbers, and what can be done about them?
The secret to "mending broken hearts" has been discovered by scientists examining ways of repairing damaged tissue after heart attacks by using proteins similar to insulin.
Cancer research has found that injecting mice with tiny magnets and turning up their body heat eliminated tumors from the animals' bodies with no apparent side effects.
Pounding away on a machine is so boring—unless you've got Keith Richards with you. Author Julia Sweeney explains how she got hooked on audiobooks and learned to love exercising.
Poor regulatory standards make it nearly impossible for consumers to get the truth about the presence of the cancer-causing preservatives nitrate and nitrite in their hot dogs.
Comparing Chicago's healthcare system to Toronto's, columnist Margaret Wente sees an American medical industry run amok with too much money and too much business influence.
Right now, mother nature seems to be assaulting 3 nuclear sites in the United States, one at Los Alamos and two in the state of Nebraska, all within the same […]
Plato’s vision of a harmonious state would scandalize liberals and conservatives alike. But some of his advice might be worth taking.
Comedian Stephen Colbert is satirizing the impact of money in politics by applying to form his very own Super PAC. The comedian submitted a real application and testified before the […]
We've been getting bits and pieces of the lava flow from Nabro for the past few weeks, but some images from earlier this week reveal the full reach of the […]
Sheena Lindahl and Michael Simmons met their third day of college and started dating on their fourth. Today their start up, Extreme Entrepreneurship Tour, takes business lessons on the road.