Culture & Religion

Although government-run job training programs are intended to instill young workers with new skills, more and more pensioners are jumping at the opportunity to try something new.

The harmful effects of Tasers are real—not just to the body, but to the mind. At the heels of yearlong study, Lauren Kirchner from Pacific Standard has compiled her data that questions the use of Tasers as a “safer” alternative to a firearm.

If Mona Lisa is the smile, Madame Cézanne is the scowl. Hortense Fiquet, Paul Cézanne’s model turned mistress turned mother of his child turned metaphorical millstone around his neck, endures as a standard art history punch line—the muse whose misery won immortality through the many masterpiece portraits done of her. Or at least that’s how the joke usually goes. The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s current exhibition Madame Cézanne, which gathers together 24 of the 29 known portraits Cézanne painted of Hortense over a period of more than 20 years, tries to rewrite that joke as it hopes to solve the riddle of Madame Cézanne, aka, The Case of the Miserable Muse.

A workshop in Saratoga Springs, N.Y. helps equip children with the necessary survival knowledge in case they’re separated from parents and friends.

The District of Columbia sports the third highest rent in the country yet prices have begun to fall as a construction boom injects supply into a seller’s market. 

A Rutgers Medical School professor has developed an exercise called “Psy-Feld” in which students watch episodes of the beloved 90’s sitcom and discuss the psychopathology of the characters.

Seemingly minor decisions like where you shop and how you socialize can mean the difference between maintaining a healthy reserve and returning home penniless.

Is innovation always a good thing? In the right hands, the myriad tech innovations on the immediate horizon could help solve humanity’s most pressing problems. In the wrong hands, change could lead to struggle.

Every New Year, old yearnings to live better are reborn. And many who make New Year’s resolutions of the “less vice, more virtue” kind, need a higher-resolution picture of some relevant language and history. The “cardinal virtues” didn’t come from cardinals (and they’re not religious relics). Nor are the deadly vices just irrational restrictions. Ignoring this logic is expensive.

Before you trash those old electronics, you may want to give some thought to how this old device could better your own or someone else’s life. Consider some alternative ways to recycle and reuse old tech.

What do different countries stay awake for? Jawbone has released some year-end data it has gathered from its UP fitness trackers to reveal what events kept us from snoozing throughout 2014.

Loneliness isn’t just for the elderly, more adults 18 to 24 report these feelings of isolation, which make people depressed, stand-offish, and untrustworthy. So, how can you cure the lonely?

Wife beaters, rapists, and child abusers seem to be without morals. But researchers argue to the contrary, saying that violent acts are driven by the belief that their actions are necessary.

The deaths of Michael Brown, Eric Garner, and Antonio Martin have sparked a national debate over police responsibility and safety, and people believe it can be fixed with more surveillance.

Engineers at the University of Montana are working to mitigate the impact of roads on wildlife by building overpasses and underpasses that give animals the right of way.

To avoid increased scrutiny at airports, the CIA recommends its covert operatives have simple and plausible responses to the questions most frequently asked at airport screenings.

Portugal has transformed a fleet of buses and taxis into a portable WiFi net, equipping riders with a free online network for their portable devices. 

Personality traits like conscientiousness and openness are better indicators of long-term academic success than traditional, standardized ways of measuring intelligence.

Gratitude is a gift that keeps on giving. As a parent, try and encourage your children to practice being thankful throughout all stages of their development.

Former NATO head Anders Fogh Rasmussen comments on the consequences of climate change in the Arctic and why geopolitical tensions are growing in the region.

Our modern lifestyles are so different from our hunter-gatherer ancestors, but our cushy way of life may be causing our bones to break for lack of activity.

The longer you wait to use a gift card, the less you’ll get for your gift-giver’s original investment. Plus, the longer you put off redemption the more likely you are to never use the card at all.

Every year, a team of volunteers at NORAD tracks Santa online while answering phone calls and e-mails from kids across North America.

For Chinese restaurants Christmas is their Superbowl Sunday. But how did Chinese food become a staple of the holidays for some?

Google CEO Larry Page recently stated that he’d rather leave his fortune to Elon Musk than give it to charity, arguing that funding Musk’s work with SpaceX will better serve humanity. 

Self-promotion isn’t easy and isn’t always comfortable. If you’re worried about coming across as arrogant when building your personal brand, take steps to ensure your actions aren’t totally self-serving.

New research delves into the minds of dog walkers to find out why they don’t pick up after their pets, and it’s not because they “forgot” to bring a baggie.

Global belief in a higher power is down nine percent since 2005 to an all-time low of sixty-eight percent, according to a Gallup poll which surveyed people from fifty seven countries all over the world.

NASA’s High Altitude Venus Operational Concept (HAVOC) program will feature an evolutionary exploration of Venus’ atmosphere that could one day lead to semi-permanent colonies.

The non-profit org Malaria No More, boosted by a grant from Google, is set to take advantage of Africa’s over 1 billion mobile phones in order to fight a disease that kills 400,000 of the continent’s children per year.