Discrimination? Smokers Have Harder Time Getting Jobs
Cigarette smoking is a noxious mess of 200 toxic chemicals that are risk factors for all kinds of diseases, and so it is sure to be a burden on a health care system that in the United States is...
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Publishing In An International Scholarly Journal: Tips From An Editor
These tips will help researchers for whom English is a second language, and who work at universities and research institutes where the international publishing culture is still young. read more
View ArticleLaughter’s Evolutionary Past
Laughter plays a crucial role in every culture across the world. But it’s not clear why laughter exists. While it is evidently an inherently social phenomenon – people are up to 30 times more likely to...
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How Women Became So Important In Piano Composition
In the Middle Ages, women became important for the development of piano composition and play. But why? There have long been rules and conventions regarding what women can and can’t do in the world of...
View ArticleMars Labeling Is Marketing Genius - They Know People Won't Do What It Says
The move by food group Mars to introduce a worldwide labeling scheme that categorizes its products as “occasional” and “everyday” based on their sugar, salt and fat content, is both unusual and...
View ArticleThe Historical Basis For The Red Woman In Game Of Thrones
Every "Game of Thrones" season premiere needs its shock reveal – and season six is no different. As the name of the episode – The Red Woman– hints, this one pertains to red priestess Melisandre, to...
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For The Indiana Jones In You: How To Find Lost Treasure
A lost Nazi gold train was discovered in Poland. At least, that’s what a couple of treasure hunters told the world last year. Like all lost treasures, the search for this one had been going on for many...
View ArticleWhy Does Anyone Still Believe In The Loch Ness Monster?
People are fascinated by the unknown, by the possibility that there are things out there that are yet to be discovered.We think that most of our planet has been mapped by satellites and continents have...
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Professor Frenkel: Why Shouldn't We Drop Algebra From Our Education System?
The erotic video “Rites of Love and Math” caught my eye on a Colbert interview.read more
View ArticleYounger Gay And Bisexual Men 6X More Likely To Attempt Suicide
Young gay and bisexual men under the age of 26 are six times more likely to attempt suicide or self-harm compared to men in that group aged over 45, and twice as likely to be depressed or anxious,...
View ArticleBalance Schmalance: Combining Home And Work Life Can Be Better
London, UK (May 04, 2016). Leaving work at the office and home at the door may not always be the best strategy for employee well-being and performance, according to a new paper in Human Relations...
View ArticleYoung Bisexual Women More Susceptible To Depression
A study finds greater prevalence of mental health symptoms in the lesbian, gay, bisexual and questioning (LGBQ) community in your bisexual women. During routine visits with physicians, participants in...
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Rice Growers In China Are More Sexually Liberal Than Wheat Growers - Here's Why
Recent years have seen claims that a “national sex revolution” is well underway in China and that it has “has reached a point of no return”. But according to my new research looking at the views of...
View ArticleA Desire For Less Competition May Account For Female Inequality
Psychologically, women may not like much competition, according to a female psychologist, and that may account for inequality in academia and the work force. If that is true, though, why is psychology...
View ArticleAdvertorials Are Misleading And Persuasive
Why is the WebMD website so successful? Last week, John Oliver ridiculed them for promoting every suspect association between anything and cancer, without any analysis or critical thinking. A new...
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What Environmental And Pro-Science Groups Agree On: Ending A Government...
Friends of the Earth, an activism group generally devoted to impeding science and progress, is excited that the Texas Clean Energy Project, a carbon capture and sequestration facility in Texas, has...
View ArticleOnline Therapy As Effective As Anything Else For Treating Some Anxiety
A new atudy finds that an online computerized cognitive behavioral therapy (CCBT) program both alone and in combination with Internet Support Groups (ISG) is more effective than doctors for anxiety and...
View ArticleBisexual, Polygyny: Controversial Evolutionary Psychologist Kanazawa Says He...
Controversial evolutionary psychologist Dr. Satoshi Kanazawahas written a new evolutionary psychology paper arguing that women may have been evolutionarily designed to be sexually fluid, changing...
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Shock Marketing Doesn't Work - That's Why New Cigarette Packaging Will Fail...
Tobacco kills nearly half of all long-term smokers and in the UK alone accounts for the deaths of 100,000 people annually, according to the public health charity ASH. This is the harsh reality behind...
View ArticleFirearm Ownership And Suicide Rates
In Japan, where the suicide rate is quite high but guns are banned, they use rope. So it is accurate to state that rope ownership is closely tied to suicide rates in that country. Using that same...
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