Colorado and Washington passed ballot on Tuesday legalizing the consumption and cultivation of marijuana, allowing researchers to better study its effects on public health.
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As of yesterday, Amazon Wine offers 1,000 choices and can send them to people living in those states where it’s legal to receive alcohol by shipment.
New research suggests that while moderate drinking does not poorly affect the brain in the moment, negative effects can build up over time and make it harder to learn new things.
All cultures go through a defining period rife with with wars and shaped by great leaders, music, food, and literature. It is our right of passage from isolation to community, from […]
I’ve never seen an albatross but I’m told the regal bird can glide for hundreds of miles without flapping his wings. On land, however, the large wings drag like “drifting […]
Data gathered for a new study suggests that some parents’ beliefs on children and alcohol exposure are dangerously misguided.
I’m pretty certain that the New York Mets won the ’86 World Series because I refused to put my feet on the ground. Perched on the edge of my bed, […]
Is the overconsumption of sugar the cause of chronic metabolic disease?
It reads like a headline in The Onion: “Study Finds People Prefer Having Sex to Scrubbing the Toilet.”
This brings me to an ancient Greek, the master himself, Socrates of Athens. In a segment of Gorgias that foresees decades of modern psychological research, the erudite interlocutor observes that […]
Consider one last autobiographical note before I answer the question: “How do we avoid the Sartre Fallacy?” I conducted an independent study my senior year that focused on biases and […]
“Ain’t got no rest in my slumbers/ Ain’t got no feelings to bruise/ Ain’t got no telephone numbers/ I ain’t got nothing but the blues,” goes Jazz composer Duke Ellington’s […]
A comprehensive study out of Sweden suggests that creative people are more likely to have bipolar disorder, particularly writers. The implication is that art can be used as therapy.
To answer my own headline, not likely. The National Rifle Association seems to lead an “Even I Can’t Kill Me” charmed existence as the most powerful lobby in DC, and […]
I write here about the Risk Perception Gap, when we worry too much about smaller risks and not enough about bigger ones. More than just an interesting example of […]
An article published in The Telegraph over a month ago remains on The Telegraph website with a headline that is so spectacularly incorrect that the BBC has reported that the article […]
October 10 is “World Mental Health Day.” It’s designed to raise awareness of mental health issues, which are still stigmatized and vastly under-treated in many countries. Treatment and recognition of […]
While I consider myself to be a rational person and believe there is validity in most of these claims (except the first), I actually think the coming apocalypse may have already arrived . . .
Because drinkers monitor their intake with reference to the halfway line of a glass, drinking speed varies depending on the shape of the glass.
The shape of the glass you’re drinking from may affect how fast you’re drinking, says a new study from a UK university looking for an answer to the problem of binging.
The neuroscience of creativity is flourishing. But will the popularity of this subject lead to better, or sloppier science?
The state of California is leaving it up to its voters to decide if packaged foods containing genetically engineered ingredients, should come with a label.
This is my second installment in a series on excellent TV shows and the 2012 election. I’m skipping over Girls for now and turning to the HBO series Big Love. […]
Doctors say that mild cases of depression and anxiety should be taken just as serious as the more severe cases of depression and anxiety.
Today a group of investors including three tech space leaders, namely Jeff Bezos of Amazon, Eric Schmidt of Google and Evan Williams of Twitter, put $10 million in EverFi, a […]
A global war on tobacco is waging. The pressure is on countries around the world to place stricter laws on tobacco use. One country even plans on prohibiting smoking by 2040. Some believe harsh laws could make the situation worse.
They remember her in colloquia and symposia, they remember her in the journals. They don’t remember her in the streets, her haunts. Reading her great novel Nightwood, Jeannette Winterson has said, “is […]
By the time he put the finishing touches on the Rite of Spring in November of 1912 in the Châtelard Hotel in Clarens, Switzerland, Stravinsky had spent three years studying Russian pagan […]
While he does not do drugs himself, Penn Jillette also does not believe other people should go to jail for “victimless crimes,” pointing out that 1 in 6 people in prison in the U.S. today are “in there for weed.”
Researchers from Glasgow University say that men who drink tea could have a higher risk of prostate cancer than men who don’t drink tea.