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Health & Science
Give Rob Ford Rehab, Not Ridicule
Making fun of the “crack-smoking mayor” is easy. As friends and loved ones of addicts know, what’s hard is understanding the causes of their destructive behavior.
Stop Catastrophizing Relief Efforts in the Philippines
The scaremongering is undermining delivery of supplies
Politicians Really Are Big Babies
Partisanship starts in infancy, but that’s no reason our elected officials can’t outgrow our parochial natures
One Thing Obamacare Can’t Fix: Bad Addiction Treatment
Correction appended, March 26, 2014.
After weeks spent offering up increasingly desperate excuses for the glitchy rollout of Obamacare’s insurance exchanges, Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius seemed
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The Pain of Piano Lessons: Can You Force Kids to Develop Interests?
Personal interests don’t have to arise “naturally” but are often triggered by external events
Where Women Are More Competitive Than Men
A field experiment in a matriarchal society proves that the drive to compete is not just biologically determined
Controlling Your Kids’ Candy Stash Is Bad Parenting
Children need to learn how to manage temptation on their own
Orangutans and Halloween Candy: Are We Being Too Species-Specific?
The campaign to link Halloween candy to orangutans shows the conservation movement needs new tactics
Scott Adams: How to Know When to Quit
The fifth in a series of columns on failing your way to success, by the creator of “Dilbert”
How To Increase the Number of Women Winning Nobel Prizes
The mother of tweens was folding laundry at 5 a.m. before going to an early spinning class when the phone rang. It was October 2009 and Carol Greider, a biologist at Johns Hopkins University, picked up and heard a voice from …
Scott Adams: Sponge Traits Off Others
The fourth in a series of columns on failing your way to success by the creator of “Dilbert”
The 10 Best Self-Help Books You’ve (Probably) Never Heard Of
While too esoteric to gain mass appeal, these books are a treasure of serviceable advice