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Well Blog: Gluten-Free Thanksgiving Stuffings
Thanksgiving wouldn't be Thanksgiving with some type of stuffing on the table. This week, Martha Rose Shulman finds a way to keep everyone happy with hearty vegan and gluten-free stuffings.
White House: there is no evidence that aliens exist
Administration response to website petition denies knowledge of life outside Earth is being hidden from publicThe White House has said it has no evidence that extraterrestrial creatures exist.Barack Obama's administration made the declaration...
Kids of downer dads more likely to have problems
Maternal depression has well-documented effects on the mental and physical well-being of children, but less research has been conducted on how depressed fathers affect children. A new study,...
White and Hispanic teens more likely to abuse drugs than African-Americans
A new analysis of teenage drug abuse finds widespread problems among whites, Native Americans, Hispanics and youngsters of multiple races, with less severe abuse among Asian and African-American...
Fatherhood can help change a man's bad habits
After men become fathers for the first time, they show significant decreases in crime, tobacco and alcohol use, according to a new, 19-year study. Researchers assessed more than 200 at-risk...
Patients’ Grades to Affect Hospitals’ Medicare Reimbursements
In the coming months, Medicare will start taking patient satisfaction into account when reimbursing hospitals.
How best to tackle corruption?
It tends to be a cultural problem – so perhaps cultural solutions, rather than laws, are the best way to stamp it outLike a washing machine always eager for its next load,...
The 1% are the very best destroyers of wealth the world has ever seen | George Monbiot
Our common treasury in the last 30 years has been captured by industrial psychopaths. That's why we're nearly bankruptIf wealth was the inevitable result of hard work and enterprise, every woman in Africa...
Study finds monkey mothers are key to sons' reproductive success
If you are a male human, nothing puts a damper on romantic success like having your mother in tow. If you are a male northern muriqui monkey, however, mom's presence...
Caveman Art: Spotted Horses Likely Real, Not Fantasy
Cavemen looked to the real world for artistic inspiration.
"Anonymous" involved in attack on Israeli sites?
Activist hacker group threatened retaliation but Israeli military blames "server error"
How we create false memories: Assessing memory performance in older adults
A new study addresses the influence of age-related stereotypes on memory performance and memory errors in older adults.
Study looks at predicting NFL betting lines
When bookmakers set the over/under line for NFL games they tend to give weight to the number of points a team scored in its immediate previous game. But that statistic...
Brain circuits connected with memory discovered
(Medical Xpress) -- A new study published last week in Science reveals the discovery of a brain pathway that helps us link events that happen close together and play a...
Uncanny Valley? Mask-Bot Robot Has A Human Face
Mask-Bot, which looks somewhat like a real person (your uncanny valley sense notwithstanding) is actually the prototype of a new robot face that a team at the Institute for Cognitive...
A fate worse than death: the history of displaying criminals' corpses
The desire to see the bodies of criminals and despots put on public display reaches across cultures and across timeImages of Muammar Gaddafi's bruised and bloodied corpse caused a sensation last month. Most...
No more getting lost in the crowd: New technology tracks multiple athletes at once
International sports federations would like to be able to follow the movements of individual athletes more easily during televised matches, even when they're hidden from view. Today, EPFL's Computer Vision...
Russia books place at science top table
New strategy will see the country boost its spending on science to 2.5 per cent of GDP
We no longer talk about 'the' Jews. So why do we talk about 'the' mentally ill? | Mind your language
A relentless campaigner against prejudicial language argues that it diminishes mentally ill people by assigning a 'stigma' to themMy name is Harold A Maio. You probably do not know me, and probably never...
The thrill of the purchase: shopping as a pick-me-up
A survey says the majority of women buy clothes simply for the thrill associated with the purchaseThree-quarters of British women admit to buying clothes just for the thrill of it, according to research...
Most women with lupus can have successful pregnancy outcomes, study finds
Promising research may offer hope for women with lupus who once thought that pregnancy was too risky.
Nearly two dozen PCs in Japanese government offices found to have Trojan horse viruses
Personal computers at the head office and local branch offices of the Japanese Internal Affairs and Communications Ministry have been infected with computer viruses and have repeatedly been accessed by...
Educating young women, rebuilding Cambodia
Sharing a muddy crawl space with four roommates isn’t part of the traditional path to a law degree. But that’s exactly how Veasna Chea, a Cambodian woman, lived during law school in...
Steven Pinker on The Better Angels of Our Nature: 'reasons to be grateful' - video
The Harvard professor and cognitive scientist Steven Pinker speaks to Madeleine Bunting about his new book The Better Angels of our NatureMadeleine BuntingAndy Gallagher
Working for Less: As States Shift to Contract Workers, Savings Are Not Clear-Cut
A Michigan plan to replace state employees at a veterans’ facility with contract workers highlights the difficulty of outsourcing in the face of strained budgets.
Deaths Put Focus on Pastor’s Advocacy of Spanking
Three children have died in recent years, allegedly at the hands of parents who had a child-rearing book by the preacher Michael Pearl, who advocates physical punishment.
Dutch scientist accused of falsifying data
Social psychologist Diederik Stapel, who conducted studies on topics such as the relationship between litter and small crimes, was removed from his university position and is being investigated.Social psychologist Diederik...
There's little sign of intelligent life on Twitter, never mind over Los Angeles
The reaction to Victoria Beckham's tweet about a UFO hovering above her house was infuriatingly obtuseLast weekend I felt sorry for Victoria Beckham. Just for a moment I felt like I'd been...