Schizophrenia may affect up to 1 percent of the population, it is diagnosed primarily in the teenage or early adult years, and is associated with problems in mental ability and memory. People who…

Howard Blume over at “looseendsdotme” in Assisted Suicide for Jumpers provides us with a strange article on my Suicidal Philosophy (which is as yet largely unpublished for reasons that should be…

Males and females differ in a lot of traits (besides the obvious ones) and some evolutionary psychologists have proposed hypotheses to explain some baffling ones. As an example, the slight, but…

Some controversial modern psychologists claim that conservatives and liberals don't just differ in political ideology, correlation and causation is inferred in actual personality templates and even…

Which is more important, feeling close to your romantic partner or whether you are as close as you want to be, even if that's really not close at all?  Outside the social sciences, the…

When is it time for parents to help and when it is time to back away? Since kids were having children of their own at age 18 a century ago it seems obvious that hovering over college-age students is…

You might be a crackpot if you won't drink coffee because it is bad for your health, yet you are shoving it in your rectum multiple times per day.  "My Strange Addiction" on TLC this week has a…

With greater wealth comes lesser need to worry about costs like diapers, it seems. Or Western parents don't know how to whistle. In the western world, babies now need diapers until an average of…

While the cultural debate of nationalized health care is whether or not to let obese people and smokers die(1), a new paper in Spain says males are pressuring women to be thin and it is making…

Some people believe in magic. In Science Left Behind, in the process of debunking claims that one American political party is overwhelmingly pro-science and one is anti-science,  we put a handy…