James Hamblin

James Hamblin, MD, is The Atlantic's Health editor.

Watch Kids React to Gay Marriage

Watch Kids React to Gay Marriage

This video of kids watching same-sex marriage proposals has already been viewed 2 million times in the 48 hours since it was posted. What does that say? More »

Cheerleader Effect: Why People Are More Beautiful in Groups

Cheerleader Effect: Why People Are More Beautiful in Groups

New research recommends recruiting a wingman/woman with a complementary face. More »

A Real-Time Map of Births and Deaths

A Real-Time Map of Births and Deaths

This simulation gives an eerily omniscient vantage on the world as it fills. More »

In Lieu of Candy, Woman Handing Out This Letter That Says Child Is Fat

In Lieu of Candy, Woman Handing Out This Letter That Says Child Is Fat

Unsolicited neighborhood judgment is not how childhood obesity is best addressed. More »

Selfies at Funerals

Selfies at Funerals

A new Tumblr compiles self-portraits taken at funerals and shared with the world. Here are a few, interspersed with more traditional efforts at celebrating life and publicly reflecting on mortality. More »

Unapologetically Racist Voter-ID Comments on <i>The Daily Show</i> Fell Republican Official

Unapologetically Racist Voter-ID Comments on The Daily Show Fell Republican Official

What not to say when purporting not to be racist More »

People Who Look Like Their Dogs

People Who Look Like Their Dogs

Illustrating the science More »

How to Win Bros and Influence Bros

How to Win Bros and Influence Bros

Young, healthy people must buy insurance for the healthcare law to succeed. Pro and anti-Obamacare groups are trying piteously to bro down. More »

Look Inside a Chicken Nugget

Look Inside a Chicken Nugget

Doctors at the University of Mississippi dissected two chicken nuggets, looked at them under a microscope, and were "astounded." More »

Dangerous Stamps

Dangerous Stamps

New fitness-themed postage stamps were put on hold due to government concerns over the safety of headstands and cannonballs. More »

How Oreos Work Like Cocaine

How Oreos Work Like Cocaine

Research made national news this week that the cookies are more addictive than psychoactive drugs. That claim may be exaggerated, but the neuroscience of junk food addiction is nonetheless fascinating and relevant—mentally, physically, and socially. More »

This Is the Average Man's Body

This Is the Average Man's Body

Graphic renderings of modern males More »

How to Uncork Wine With a Hammer

How to Uncork Wine With a Hammer

And other food magic to try, like chewing gum when chopping onions More »

Check Kids for High Blood Pressure?

Check Kids for High Blood Pressure?

A new recommendation from the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force says we don't actually know if the age-old practice is a good idea. More »

Albuquerque Newspaper Runs <i>Breaking Bad</i> Obituary

Albuquerque Newspaper Runs Breaking Bad Obituary

"It provides some of us some closure." More »

What We Eat Affects Everything

What We Eat Affects Everything

How men and women digest differently, diet changes our skin, and gluten remains mysterious: A forward-thinking gastroenterologist on eating one's way to "gutbliss" More »

Some Americans Say They Support the Affordable Care Act but Not Obamacare

Some Americans Say They Support the Affordable Care Act but Not Obamacare

The idea that ignorance is the root of much disagreement—that if Americans understood the healthcare law, more would support it—seems condescending, but not invalid.  More »

An Image of Everyone on Facebook

An Image of Everyone on Facebook

At our most beautiful, we are dots. More »

Dr. Howser's Army: The 3-Year M.D.

Dr. Howser's Army: The 3-Year M.D.

U.S. medical education is based on a century-old structure. Leading physicians are calling to streamline medical school to three years. How long does it take to make a doctor? More »

Walter White Is Not Dead

Walter White Is Not Dead

A definitive medical diagnosis More »

The Biggest Story in Photos

Liu Bolin: The Invisible Man

Subscribe Now

SAVE 65%! 10 issues JUST $2.45 PER COPY

Newsletters

Sign up to receive our free newsletters

(sample)

(sample)

(sample)

(sample)

(sample)

(sample)