Derek Beres

Derek Beres

Derek Beres is a freelance writer. Based in Portland, Oregon, he has served in senior editorial positions at a number of tech companies and has years of experience in health, science, and music writing. He is the co-host of the Conspirituality podcast and co-author of Conspirituality: How New Age Conspiracies Became a Health Threat.

A supervised learning algorithm can predict clinical depression much earlier and more accurately than trained health professionals.
Lazy but want to stay in shape? You may soon be able to have it both ways, thanks to a new pill in testing from GlaxoSmithKline. 
A new study illustrates how marketing affects our memory of what we eat, and how that translates to a bigger waistline.
Two meditation pioneers, Daniel Goleman and Richard J. Davidson, answer that question in their new book, Altered Traits.
Forty percent of Americans sleep less than seven hours per night, and that's a problem.
Researchers at the University of Adelaide found high success rates for lucid dreaming. 
The world's human population is skyrocketing, creating more competition and suffering. Yet few thinkers address a solution. Is there one?