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Good advice from someone who is terrible at dating
Good advice from someone who is terrible at dating
In the era of instant gratification, the unexpected success of "the hardest workout ever put on DVD"
Positions on economic redistribution correlated with upper-body strength.
The modern birth announcement
This week experts warned against the dangers of overdoing low-sodium diets. That's a step toward what salt advocates like "The Salt Guru" Morton Satin have enjoined for years.
Understanding the case of an intersex child whose adoptive parents claim was robbed of his genitals, and of the right to decide what should happen to his body
Resarch subjects were better able to will themselves into positive moods while listening to rousing symphonies.
Write a show about a family man with an incurable neurodegenerative condition, and make it funny and not manipulative. Okay, go.
The promise of delinking research and development from the actual manufacture of drugs, and why the pharmaceutical industry rejects an idea that could turn neglected diseases into profit
Marijuana users had smaller waists and scored higher across several measures of blood sugar regulation.
The psychology of lost causes
Societal changes that help working mothers would be much more effective -- and much less expensive -- than telling women to postpone procreation.
Non-smokers who stayed in non-smoking rooms had cigarette byproducts on their fingers and in their urine the next morning.
Possibilities include floppy baby syndrome and death, but honey-pacifiers still exist.
Single-celled fungi all around us do so much good and so much bad.
At 18 months, babies who had come into repeated contact with their parents' saliva were 12 percent less likely to have asthma and 37 percent less likely to develop eczema.
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