- A Gut Reaction: America's obesity epidemic may be caused by its favorite drug
- 'Fit Mom' Gets Temporarily Banned from Facebook Over 'Hate Speech'
- Study: 'Healthy Obese' Still at Increased Risk of Heart Attack
- 'Half-Ton Killer' Mayra Rosales Reveals Why She Falsely Confessed to Murder, Dramatic Weight-Loss
- New Warning: Morning-After Pill Doesn't Work for Women Over 176 Pounds—"The European manufacturer of a pill identical to Plan B says its product won't work for women who weigh more than 176 pounds. Will American pharma companies warn women of weight limits?"
- Hong Kong confirms first human case of bird flu
- Adolescent AIDS rates up alarmingly, UN finds—"But mother-to-child transmission of HIV has been dramatically reduced, UNICEF reports."
- WHO Fail: Claim that 50% of new Greek HIV infections self-inflicted for benefits totally false
- Only Half of Drugs Removed by Sewage Treatment—"Only about half of the prescription drugs and other newly emerging contaminants in sewage are removed by treatment plants says a new report."
- NH hospital worker gets 39 years in hepatitis case
- French couple, 86, slam 'cruel' law in suicide note—"The plight of an 86-year-old couple, who committed suicide together at a luxury Paris hotel last week has provoked much emotion in France. On Monday it emerged they had penned a scathing suicide note, reigniting a row in France over assisted suicide."
- Scott Adams: I Hope My Father Dies Soon—"If you're a politician who has ever voted against doctor-assisted suicide, or you would vote against it in the future, I hate your fucking guts and I would like you to die a long, horrible death."
- Belgium: Legislative panels approve youth euthanasia bill
- UA Study: Your Brain Sees Things You Don't
- Former NHL Players File Class Action Concussions Suit Against League
- Teenager Sustains Concussion, Becomes Musical Genius
- The Neuroscientist Who Discovered He Was a Psychopath
- Deadly Brain Illness Discovered in British Family—"Condition destroys tissue much like mad cow disease, but is inherited and not infectious ."
- The Social Life of Genes—"Your DNA is not a blueprint. Day by day, week by week, your genes are in a conversation with your surroundings. Your neighbors, your family, your feelings of loneliness: They don't just get under your skin, they get into the control rooms of your cells. Inside the new social science of genetics."
- Science proves Louis C.K. is right!—"New studies show the 'equality bias' in kids turns out to be a lot like a famous Louis CK joke about kids and toys." Salon
- Study: Bad behavior gets "paid forward" more than good—"A new social scientific experiment reveals that greed frequently begets more greed." Salon
- The more inept you are the smarter you think you are
- Upside Downside
- Want To Read Others' Thoughts? Try Reading Literary Fiction—"Could reading highbrow fiction make you better at perceiving the thoughts and feelings of others?"
- Apology Not Accepted: The Right — and Wrong — Way to Say You're Sorry
- How to Accept Critcism with Grace and Appreciation
- Ghosting, the Irish goodbye, the French leave: stop saying goodbye at parties.
- Eye contact may not be a social cure-all—"Locking eyes with someone may not be the universal route to persuasion."
- Stop Calling All Criticism "Shaming"—"Just because you don't like someone's criticism doesn't mean they're 'shaming' you."
- The Backfire Effect shows why you can't use facts to win an argument
- R.I.P. Obamacare repeal movement: Crusade is officially dead—"Without anyone realizing, all mainstream efforts to kill the health law have disappeared. Here's what it all means." Salon
- The Next 5 Fixes That Obamacare Needs
- The health care reality conservatives ignore
- High court ends Liberty U. lawsuit over health law—"The Supreme Court has turned away a Christian university's attempt to overturn a key part of the Obama administration's health care law." Salon
- Report: Obamacare To Cost 'Billions Of Dollars Less Than Originally Projected'
- Krugman: Obamacare's Secret Success NYT
- Counterpoint: Healthcare.gov Has Already Failed—"Website problems won't stop Obamacare, but they've already wrecked progressives' ambitions."
