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How to Walk Away
The psychology of lost causes
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The psychology of lost causes
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Societal changes that help working mothers would be much more effective -- and much less expensive -- than telling women to postpone procreation.
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Non-smokers who stayed in non-smoking rooms had cigarette byproducts on their fingers and in their urine the next morning.
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Possibilities include floppy baby syndrome and death, but honey-pacifiers still exist.
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Single-celled fungi all around us do so much good and so much bad.
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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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Wrigley revoked caffeine-gum in response to FDA noise. Is this where it ends?
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Psychiatrists who take time with their patients are not the norm. It's not because others don't care. Rather the system rewards efficiency, not empathy.
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People were 20 percent more likely to choose DNR if it was phrased as "allowing natural death;" 25 percent if they were told it's what most other people choose.
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A childhood hearing impairment, discovered at age 33
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