Why We're Born Optimists, and Why That's Good
The innate biases that cause us to adjust our perceptions and memories toward the positive give us unique advantages.
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How Judith Scott became the first artist with Down Syndrome to have her work featured in the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
The innate biases that cause us to adjust our perceptions and memories toward the positive give us unique advantages.
The Olympic medalist went back home to East St. Louis. Now, she wants the next generation to do the same.
Data analysis is changing from an exercise in hindsight to a predictive, real-time science. Here’s what you need to know.
A Silicon Valley start-up launched an online diabetes prevention program yesterday, of the sort that has data to support its efficacy and cost-effectiveness.
Reducing the demand for costly nursing home living can come down to a hot meal.
New super-thin mesh has the potential to be inserted into a woman's vagina to provide barely detectable contraception and HIV protection for several days.
Digesting formula can be toxic to cells that line the gastrointestinal tract.
A map of "real-time" U.S. births and deaths
In South Dakota, long-distance doctoring is bringing health care to rural communities.
It is time to commit to programs that will serve our troops with the same fidelity with which they have served us.
At the moment this post is published--Monday evening--I'm probably miserable. But I can't say for sure. Monday is the third full day of a…
Innovations, outbreaks, and oddities from the year in health and medicine
Despite physical and cognitive decline, older age is associated with higher self-ratings of successful aging.
Last week's mHealth summit in Washington, D.C., gave tech leaders an opportunity to evaluate the field and its future.
Education is not an industrial process; it is a human one.
The science of dropping your food on the ground reveals surprising lessons.
Why we love dogs, even though "dog culture" is annoying and it sucks when they die
He was a hero, an iconic survivor, and he let us down. It's difficult to accept, because he helped.
Emerging reasons to wonder if we could have done more
People who thought they ate more felt less hungry later.
Eroticism should be addressed in a manner consistent with the sensitivity and intimacy of its nature.
Fixing Health Care
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The Year in Review
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