A recent survey of high school students shows that most have cheated on tests and homework and, as long the cheating requires effort, don't feel they're doing anything wrong. The study by the…

Musical ClownsWhy is it that so often a genius of comedy has brilliant musical talent?Or is it the other way round? I've also noticed that geniuses of comedy tend to be geniuses of language. …

"What is autism" is a medical science question.  "How can people with autism adapt to society" is a social science question.  "Why would someone pay to see a movie in a theater with the…

There is a nice Internet site on Facebook about Grisha Perelman: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Grigori-Perelman/41491033741?v=wall which claims to have 799 fans. Wonderful ! There is a guy who…

The mainstream media is often accused of shilling for one political party or the other, but that accusation may not stick to all news sources. A new study in the Journal of Political Economy has…

A new study in the Journal of Consumer Research has found that shoppers often expect to buy a certain number of unplanned items, and most have a fairly accurate estimate as to how much they will…

It's almost World Cup time again and the South Africa event has been plagued by problems but one thing can always squelch critics and get fans excited - a great song.    Well, the World Cup…

Watching too much TV may make children fat, bad at math and expose them to all kinds of other evils, say "child experts" writing in the Archives of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine. The authors…

Charles Darwin was probably correct about the effects of inbreeding in his family, according to a new study in BioScience. Darwin demonstrated the phenomenon of inbreeding depression in many plants,…

Despite significant declines in the cinematic depiction of smoking over the past 20 years, researchers writing in Thorax complain that tobacco imagery is still relatively common in UK films rated…