You can painstakingly show somebody tons of bulletproof evidence and present flawless logical arguments but often they still won’t change their mind. What gives? The problem is that the human brain is not a purely rational computer. And when we ignore that, even the best of efforts to convince others can fall flat.

Hints at potential treatments for age-related dementia and memory loss

New research from The University of Texas at Austin proves writing letters of gratitude, like Jimmy Fallon’s “Thank You Notes,” is a pro-social experience people should commit to more often. The gesture improves well-being for not only letter writers but recipients as well.

This Haldol Is For You (from "Tonight (I'm Loving You)")I messed up the formatting and don't know how to fix it. Anyway,here is something totally different than what I usually post.

The Microlino, a front-loading super compact vehicle from Swiss mobility company Micro, has just been approved for European streets. The mini electric vehicle is smaller than a Smart Car, and comes with a rechargeable battery that works with any standard European electricity outlet. The automobile i

The microbes make a compound that disrupts DNA formation in tumor cells. Certain skin-dwelling microbes may be anticancer superheroes, reining in uncontrolled cell growth. This surprise discovery could one day lead to drugs that treat or maybe even prevent skin cancer.

China is taking the idea of a credit score to the extreme, using big data to track and rank what you do—your purchases, your pastimes, your mistakes.

Unlike Westerners, Soviets preferred to vacation at sanatoriums, which were modernist structures infused with a sense of utopia.

The nature of human behaviour is complex, sometimes illogical, and often difficult to understand. We, however, are curious creatures, eager to find out the truths behind every question, always striving to know more. That is why there’s no surprise that over the years many psychological experiments were conducted in order to delve deeper into the human mind and to clear out the why’s and the how’s of our behaviour. By Agne.

O sisters, gather round! The Peloponnesian War on Women continues, and we are fucking done with this shit.

Palliative-care doctors explain the “existential slap” that many people face at the end. By Jennie Dear.

Forget to tell crematory staff about grandpa’s pacemaker? He may go out with a bang.

I’m constantly in doubt about pretty much everything. I’m even in doubt whether I should right this right here. Whether I should even have started writing this book right here. It took me 10 minutes to fight my doubts until I finally started writing this piece right here. Doubt is constantly following me wherever I go. Doubt paralyses. Doubt kills. And it eats you alive. Doubt and fear are best friends.

A straw man argument is a debate technique where a person pretends to refute his opponent’s argument, while actually refuting an argument that is only superficially similar to the original one. For example, if person A were to say “we should improve the public healthcare system”, person B might reply with “I find the fact that you want to give a lot of money to large pharmaceutical corporations very suspicious”.

Reporter Tom de Castella has a petrol-fuelled old banger, while his dad has a 2009 diesel. Each bet that the other’s car did more harm to the environment. When Tom found someone to do the test, he also discovered just how dirty some brand new cars are.

Culture profoundly shapes our ideas about mental illness, which is something psychologist Nev Jones knows all too well.

The logos of global corporations like Apple, Starbucks, and Foot Locker are designed to create instant brand associations in the minds of billions who see them every day. But how accurately can we remember the features and colors of these famous symbols?

What interest do people living in a supposedly secular and liberal society have in regulating perhaps the most intimate aspect of an adult’s life—consensual sexual behavior with another adult? How do people decide which sexual acts, conducted in private, have a public impact and, therefore, become the public’s business? For our purposes, why do Americans think as we do about sex, and how have we used the Constitution, and the laws of the fifty states, to instantiate those beliefs? By Annette Gordon-Reed.

In the rich world, cancer therapy is expensive. In the developing world, it may not be available at all. Not only is cutting-edge technology in short supply, but so are things like electricity and medical personnel. The lack of necessary resources for basic healthcare is made obvious by the fact that, if diagnosed with cancer, a person in the developing world is more likely to die from it than a person in the developed world.

Their “reputation score” depends on it.

'When The Angels Call Your Time' is the track that laid the foundation for my very own dark, twisted fantasy that is my New Orleans themed alter-ego and band, 'Rattlin Bone'. One of the major crowd-pleasing tracks in my 'live' set (both solo and with The Rattlin Bone Theatre Show), this studio version with Danny Flam's New York Brass features on my new album 'Moon Over Indigo'

Don’t Overthink. Do. Balancing thought and action will always be a challenge for many people. When you spend too much time picturing what a project is going to be like, too much time thinking about how awesome it will be… and too little time actually making the thing, you make no progress.

Eight years after it was given the power to meaningfully change smoking in America, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration moved to do so. On Friday, the FDA announced it would take advantage of powers in the Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act -- a law enacted under a Democratic Congress and then-President Obama -- to cut the level of nicotine in cigarettes to nonaddictive levels.

Hospitals and pharmacies are required to toss expired drugs, no matter how expensive or vital. Meanwhile the FDA has long known that many remain safe and potent for years longer.

(Inside Science) -- When it comes to sheer friendliness, few humans can match the average dog. But people with Williams syndrome may come close, their unusual genetics granting them a puppyish zeal for social interaction. Now, scientists have found that extreme friendliness in both species may share common genetic roots.

Emerging evidence shows that insulin resistance is the most important predictor of cardiovascular and type 2 diabetes.

I thought I could care for my dad after his Alzheimer's diagnosis. Like many caregivers, I was quickly overwhelmed

When your games become your ghosts.