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White-Collar Junk: The Rise of Prescribed Opiate Addiction

20/08/2015

While most opiate addicts are still addicted to only painkillers, the number of addicts using heroin and the number of users who are addicted to both painkillers and heroin are increasing faster than...

The Internet Told Me! Wikipedia Research Subject to Information Sabotage

17/08/2015

When researching acid rain, evolution, and climate change -- cast a critical eye on source material...

The Slaver and the Snarl. Dog Bites (and avoiding them)

14/08/2015

There was a common tendency for victims to blame themselves for the attack, rather than the animal...

Are you Ready for 11 Billion? World Population – Soon.

12/08/2015

The primary driver of global population growth is a projected increase in the population of Africa. ...

Sexting : How Often, Who To?

10/08/2015

These findings show a robust relationship between sexting and sexual and relationship satisfaction....

Powerlessness, Anxiety and the Political Tides: A Coping Strategy

07/08/2015

We build a structure of false consciousness… that we, often, mistake for our convictions, and tragically mistake this dismal dwelling for the whole of existence....

A Talent Show Without Talent. X Factor (Part two)

05/08/2015

The society that allowed us to flourish creatively whatever our background or income is in rapid decline. That cannot be right....

Why Do You Notice Human Screams, But Not Jetplanes?

17/07/2015

Screaming really works," Poeppel says. "It is one of the earliest sounds that everyone makes...

All About the Self Esteem? Obese Teens in Denial

16/07/2015

an increasing number of overweight adolescents do not consider themselves as obese teens....

The Stoned Pygmy Story You Didn’t See Coming

04/06/2015

The researchers noted that cannabis might not be the only recreational drug that protects against parasites....

Entrenched imperial orders do not die pretty deaths

04/06/2015

The angst, humiliations, and sundry degradations of working people that are inherent to capitalism are unbearable for the multitudes...

Money, Masculinity, and Marital Infidelity

02/06/2015

The affairs of economically dependent men simply don't garner media attention, so we hear about this kind of infidelity far less often...

New Approaches to College Drinking

24/05/2015

Crackdown on low-priced serving methods such as kegs and "happy hours."...

When citizens TURN. Documenting Disobedience

23/05/2015

The kinds of people who engage in noncompliance are the same people who believe the government responds to their feedback....

Smartphone or Dumbphone? Phone bans = Higher Grades

22/05/2015

New technologies are typically thought of as improving productivity, however this is not always the case...

Staring into the Mortal Abyss. Motivational?

18/05/2015

Self-awareness among humans has been shown to create the potential for hope ...

Would Average-Size Models Supersize Sales?

17/05/2015

When it came to established brands, average-sized models could be used interchangeably with size zero models, with little or no impact on product or model evaluation...

The Rise if the Robopets. Or not.

14/05/2015

When engineers work on robotic dogs, they work on social intelligence, they address what people need from their dogs: companionship, love, obedience, dependence...

The Sweat Smell of Success

19/04/2015

In a way, happiness sweat is somewhat like smiling - it is infectious....

Freelancing, self employment and accountants.

19/04/2015

A gross day rate multiplied by 365 sounds impressive to some but the take home reality is generally less… much, much less. Plan accordingly....

Kissy Kissy Icky Icky. Why kids don’t snog

12/04/2015

A hardwired signal in the brain accounts for young children’s temporary aversion to bestowing physical affection on the opposite sex. It takes at least a decade of marriage to make the...

Official: Smartphones Make You Stupid(er)

02/04/2015

The cognitive effects of 'being in search mode' on the Internet may be so powerful that people still feel smarter even when their online searches reveal nothing...

A spurious god created by a corrupt elite – Capitalism

30/03/2015

dropcap style=”font-size:100px; color:#992211;”A/dropcapfter one presents a cogent critique of capitalism, one is likely to hear the following as a reply from the propagandized, good...

Two before bedtime? The Sensitivity Pill

22/03/2015

Under tolcapone's influence, game players were more sensitive to and less tolerant of social inequity...

At it like rabbits? Kids, Vids and Sex

20/03/2015

As the portrayal of women as objects of lust reflects patriarchal values, media images that support this type of male dominance may provoke resistance in female viewers....

Live longer by spending less time alone.

13/03/2015

dropcap style=”font-size:100px; color:#992211;”U/dropcaprr hur hurr. That’s a scientific euphemism, that is. ‘Spend less time alone’. They mean ‘shagging’,...

Being laid off causes distrust for at least nine years

12/03/2015

Job losses of the recent recession could lead to a worrying level of long-term distrust...

Quantifying how much urban travel is based on social activity

01/03/2015

dropcap style=”font-size:100px; color:#992211;”O/dropcaput. There. With the germs and the filth and the encrusted detritus of human interaction and People Who Hug. Massachusetts Institute...

The Ecocidal Feedback Loop of Consumerism

24/02/2015

dropcap style=”font-size:100px; color:#992211;”E/dropcapcocide. Methane feedback loops. And perpetual, low-grade war for the planet’s resources that will render her hostile to human...