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Health & Science
It’s Not Just Sexism, Women Do Suffer More From Mental Illness
Why do mainstream mental health professionals give so little attention to the question of gender differences?
Viewpoint: Air-Conditioning Will Be the End of Us
Trying to engineer hot weather out of existence in an age of man-made global warming is indefensible
We Are All Climate Change Deniers
Almost all of us minimize or normalize our enormous global problems
The Epidemic of Disillusioned Doctors
We all know medicine has become a frustrating profession. But surveys show that a younger generation of doctors are more resilient to burnout
The Best Cure for Obesity? Personal Responsibility
Regardless of whether it’s now a disease, there are currently no medical cures for obesity that improve on willpower
If Obesity Is a Disease, Why Are So Many Obese People Healthy?
The decision of the American Medical Association (AMA) to classify obesity as a disease is great news for the pharmaceutical industry, as it is likely to increase pressure on the Food and Drug Administration to approve more …
We Still Need Information Stored in Our Heads Not ‘in the Cloud’
Computer are great for information that won’t change, but a brain is better at connecting facts with other facts and acquiring layers of meaning
Viewpoint: Obama’s Nuke Proposal is Unilateral and Risky
8 New Ways of Looking at Intelligence
Our brains can be strengthened (and weakened) in many more ways than we ever thought.
Viewpoint: Oprah as Harvard’s Commencement Speaker Is an Endorsement of Phony Science
As America’s oldest and most visible university, Harvard should publicly affirm evidence-based inquiry, not quack medicine
Don’t Read Too Much Into Brain Scans
We cannot read minds (yet.) And we shouldn’t be making reverse inferences from pictures of brain activity
The Big Problem With Disaster Planning
We can try to prepare for the worst, but natural disasters cause chain reactions that we can’t always anticipate