Culture & Religion

The Finnish system spends about one-quarter less money per pupil than the American system, yet student achievement remains high.

Known as prospective memory, scientific research has shed new light on two separate brain processes that prompt the brain to tell you to remember certain things.

While the raw computational power of the brain declines with age, new studies have found that intelligence increases with maturity.

Individuals are drawn to either good or bad behavior depending on how they recall their past actions.

Homosexual sociologists have put forth several theories as to why the gay community idealizes the male physique, each more politically incorrect than the last.

A new study states that men who work in female-dominated professions perform 25 percent more chores than those who work in male-dominated professions.

This week the International Astronomical Union, long responsible for giving planets sexy names like “HD 189733b,” surprised many by opening the process to the general public. Not surprisingly, there are some rules involved. (Sit down, Trekkies.)

If it’s natural, that is: A recent study attempts to link the dyeing and medicinal capabilities of certain plants, and posits that minute quantities of dye absorbed from clothes into skin could improve wellbeing.

A world in which great minds thought alike would be a dystopia.

Some unconvincing reasons not to philosophize.

A survey of 240 young men and women has found that adult human crime victims receive less sympathy than do adult dogs, puppies, and human children.

Science, along with evolutionary theory, may soothe the human soul in ways similar to religion by promoting a vision of the universe that is not random and chaotic but rather orderly and deterministic. 

Under a new law passed earlier this year, 16,000 residents who owe more than $10,000 in state taxes began receiving notices this week that their driver’s licenses will be suspended if they don’t pay up.

A Pew Research Center survey released this week revealed that despite Americans’ optimism about advances in medical technology, a slight majority said they wouldn’t want to have their lifespans extended past 120 with such technology.

It’s not climate change, or the fact that they spend more time online: According to a new survey, it’s because they’re just too busy to be bothered.

A team from Tokyo’s University of Electro-Communications has created a system that creates an interactive surface from a tub of opaque water, basically “[taking] immersive entertainment to a whole new level.”

Despite recent failures in Egypt and Turkey, two of the world’s three most populous countries of Islam’s core, political parties wishing to legislate Islamic value may still stand a chance.

Faced with a modernizing society and subsequent falling birthrate, the South Korean government is taking unusual steps to encourage its younger citizens to link up, get married, and have children.

When faced with the classical risk dilemma—receive small gains now versus a big gain later—men and women have different ways of evaluating what is the best course of action. 

Studies have repeatedly shown that people who set aside time to pray are generally healthier and recover from illness more quickly than those who don’t. Even atheists who pray experience an uptick in health.

It’s a huge stretch to blame ordinary Detroiters for the imprudence of their city’s municipal government.

English novelist, journalist, and short story writer Will Self counsels his readership to remain negative, or at least pessimistic, which is how his mother would have wanted it.

Girlfriend, boyfriend, partner, lover, significant other. We really don’t have any good way to refer to unmarried romantic partners (see?) in English.

History shows that both those who do not learn history and those who do learn history are doomed to repeat it.

Three thoughts on what the pope said the other day about gay people.

Despite the growing number of mobile payment technologies available, and the uptick in users in both Europe and Japan, many Americans are either unaware of them or concerned about their security. 

Partners HealthCare’s new system may be one of the first in the nation to wirelessly populate official electronic health records with data collected by an increasing number of remote home monitoring devices.

Reza Aslan has to explain The Genetic Fallacy to idiot and FoxNews.com interviewer Lauren Green.

Thanks to recent archeological finds, scientists have gained a better understanding of our brain’s evolution by measuring the interior dimensions of ancient skulls.

Being smart is highly overrated, according to Kenneth Goldsmith, the Museum of Modern Art’s first poet laureate. Goldsmith, who considers himself a very dumb writer, likes to copy past artists.