The K-Pop Plastic Surgery Obsession
Inspired by pop stars and encouraged by culture that equates success with physical beauty, the "self-racism subtext" of buying an ideal Korean face
Inspired by pop stars and encouraged by culture that equates success with physical beauty, the "self-racism subtext" of buying an ideal Korean face
Good advice from someone who is terrible at dating
Today the National Council of the Boy Scouts of America voted to include openly gay boys and young men. Some fear this will result in "injection of hypersexuality and gay activism into a youth organization." It won't.
How unthinking racial essentialism finds its way into scientific research
Coffee, tea, beer, and wine seem to make kidney stones less likely.
It's less about eating screaming bugs, and more about eating things that have been in the ground for 17 years.
Clenching a hand increases focal brain activity. Make sure to do it correctly, though.
Where there's a uterus, there's a way?
Creation of worksite wellness programs is promoted by parts of the Affordable Care Act. If your office doesn't have a gym, it soon might -- out of the company's interest.
The many considerations in "repairing" the face of a child
Veteran skydivers feel less anxious than beginners, but their bodies still release the same amount of stress hormone.
Frenchie and his gym wouldn't be out of place in a Tarantino flick.
Augmenting psychiatric diagnosis with data
Public health workers have taken on the mission of vaccinating 170 million children under the age of five.
British elementary school students believed an overweight storybook character was more likely to be naughty and less likely to have friends.
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