People who engage in binge eating, substance abuse and obsessive compulsive disorder all share a common pattern of decision making and similarities in brain structure, according to a  new paper…

Many people, regardless of occupation, have experienced a difficult boss or annoying co-workers. It might even be harassment or bullying. It's still better than being ignored, according to a paper in…

Psychological stress is harmful to sperm and semen quality, affecting its concentration, appearance, and ability to fertilize an egg, according to a study led by researchers Columbia University's…

One of the nice details lost in the big picture of the Higgs boson discovery of 2012 is that a significant part of the signal put in evidence by ATLAS and CMS is produced by a very special kind of…

In the pop culture world of mainstream media, magic bullets are common. Every week there is a new miracle vegetable and then the following work there will be scare journalism about some chemical. In…

Do you prefer to own a DVD, rather than wondering if Netflix will remove whatever show you wanted to watch this week? If you buy or rent, rather than streaming, you are contributing to billions of…

Not horrified by PETA's graphic images of food processing or titillated by their penchant for exploiting naked women enough to stop eating meat? The People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals have…

Photographers like Richard Avedon, Diane Arbus, and Martin Schoeller made their reputations with distinctive visual styles that sometimes required the careful control of lighting possible only in the…

I may have once endorsed Eckhart Tolle by pointing out similarities between Tolle and Muho. Muho wrote to me that he does not know why his own meditative practice worked for him. In my eyes, such…

2.1 billion people, nearly 30% of the world's population, are overweight, according to a new analysis of data from 188 countries.  In 1980, the world was still worried about doomsday prophets…