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.

Psychology professor Jean M Twenge argues that teens are suffering elevated levels of depression and loneliness, and their phones are to blame. 
Get lost in a good book. Time and again, reading has been shown to make us healthier, smarter, and more empathic.
New landmark research of 101,000 Americans shows stark religious and ethnic changes.
Molecular biologists are hopeful about the results, but a long road lies ahead—so far this diet has only worked proven wonders on mice.
In The Road to Character, David Brooks argues that our moral vocabulary is severely lacking.
Polygamy has been denounced by the Mormon church for more than 100 years. So why does the stereotype persist?