One of the most frustrating issues modern parents face is how to manage children's screen time. Official guidelines say kids aged five to 18 years should spend no more…
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TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iranian moderates have won a majority in parliament and a top clerical body charged with selecting the next supreme leader, dealing…
Winter is a tough time of year for many people, but it doesn't have to be. With last weekend's Mid-Atlantic snowstorm, a lot of people…
Michael Ellner is an internationally respected scholar in mind-body medicine, an expert in hypnosis, and a leader in warning people about the destructive consequences of…
Prof. Joanna Bourke is a historian, social feminist and scholar from New Zealand and currently a professor of history in the Department of History, Classics…
“You unpatriotic ‘9/11 Truthers’ can have annual conspiracy conventions on 9/11, with a host of speakers. To use a Russian expression, the dogs may bark…
Not even the seasonally-adjusted sentiment surveys can give a glimmer of hope any more. A few weeks after the July ISM manufacturing report printed at…
One way to fight health disparities and obesity may be to turn off the TV. Food companies disproportionately target television advertising for unhealthy products like…
Spoiler alert: too much television may lead to an increased risk of getting Alzheimer's disease. According to the Washington Post [3], researchers at the Northern California Institute…
"This heinous bill...has now come to the attention of the black community." Epic speech the mainstream wouldn't cover! During the months of December 2014 through…
It occurred to me the other day that quite a few of the odder features of contemporary American culture make perfect sense if you assume…
Americans and the American social scientists who study them are obsessed withhappiness. What gets less attention is the perhaps deeper experience of meaningfulness. The two…