in an effort to bring famous art to the masses, france’s national state-owned rail service has applied renowned works to its public train system.

Senile dementia is causing serious social problems in Japan and much of the blame lies with the Health, Labor and Welfare Ministry as it attaches importance to aiding those who have physical difficulties while neglecting those with low degrees of dementia. It is estimated that in the 2020s, 1 in 8 elderly people aged 65 years or older will fall into that “low degree dementia” category, with the potential of related wandering and reckless driving increasing.

Shortly after Harriet Krzykowski began working at the Dade Correctional Institution, in Florida, an inmate whispered to her, “You know they starve us, right?” It was the fall of 2010, and Krzykowski, a psychiatric technician, had been hired by Dade, which is forty miles south of Miami, to help prisoners with clinical behavioral problems follow their treatment plans. The inmate was housed in Dade’s mental-health ward, the Transitional Care Unit, a cluster of buildings...

A Review of the Wu-Tang Clan’s “Once Upon a Time in Shaolin.” By Dan Cohen.

And what we can learn from it today. . 

As anyone that suffers from it will know, hay fever is nothing short of profoundly irritating. Fortunately, there are a range of prescription and over-the-counter drugs you can take to remedy the problem, but as a new study shows, some of them may be causing some particularly unfortunate neurological side effects.

I’ve come to realize that my anxiety is more comfortable when I am involved in a contained drama, like a bad haircut. (July ’15)

Wikimedia’s Swedish arm has just lost a case in the country’s Supreme Court, which has ruled that people must get permission from artists before they post images of public art – including statues and buildings – online. That’s a ruling that opens up a whole new legal minefield for holiday Instagrammers, Tweeters and Facebookers everywhere – as well as potentially the owners of those sites too, if they’re seen as liable for what users post.

‘The disappearing male’ highlights a disturbing trend focusing on how the foundation of human development is threatened by toxic substances found in ...

Colour and Subcultural Sublimation

We need tougher safety standards and better disclosure provisions on cosmetics. Many parents were shocked to learn that a Missouri jury recently ordered Johnson & Johnson to pay $72 million to the family of Jacqueline Fox, whose death by ovarian cancer was linked to her daily use of talcum-based Johnson’s Baby Powder and Shower to Shower products. You know the product—that sweet baby scent, the soft puff of powder.

At lunchtime, the women had to be separated in the cafeteria because everything they touched turned yellow. They were called the "Canary Girls" because of their bright yellow skin and green or ginger-coloured hair.

How to identify the artist of a famous painting

An inspiration for Spain’s May 15 movement, the sociologist is skeptical about chances for change. By Ricardo de Querol.

Live world statistics on population, government and economics, society and media, environment, food, water, energy and health.

Software company Chaotic Moon has developed a “tech tattoo” that gets embedded into a person’s arm and can track a person's financial and medical information.

You eat too much, and so you get fat. We all know that. It's not rocket science. Except it's not actually as simple as that.

The Oatmeal: October 26 2015

If your cholesterol levels are high, your doctor might prescribe you a statin, a drug that blocks one of the enzymes involved in creating cholesterol. But in the future, she might also prescribe a second drug that technically doesn’t target your body at all. Instead, it would manipulate the microbes in your gut. Each of us is home to trillions of bacteria and other microbes—a teeming mass collectively known as the microbiome.

It’s the job of a food stylist to make products look delicious on camera – even if the makeover leaves the meal inedible. Six stylists tell us their tricks

Hi! Today seems like a good day to answer some frequently asked questions... By Rachel Ward.

There are a few things science doesn’t know about the menopause: what it’s for, how it works and how best to treat it. Approaching her second – yes, second – menopause, Rose George finds herself with more questions than answers.

The Danish Dairy Research Foundation, likely in hopes of boosting butter's regard, funded a study about the popular lipid. But when the research was delivered, it didn't exactly paint butter in a favourable light.

CONTROVERSIAL heart drug statins have been linked to almost twenty thousand reports of side effects and 227 deaths.

Cuts have forced [UK] local councils to save money, but making people pay to be helped off the ground is sinister and cruel. By Jack Monroe.

Drug-harm experts to rank 20 drugs (legal and illegal) on 16 measures of harm to the user and to wider society

Stepping into the health debate around electronic cigarettes is a messy and frustrating exercise. Depending on whom you ask, these devices are either the best technological solution to the smoking pandemic or the biggest looming threat to public health. So to sort through the research and figure out whether e-cigarettes are actually safe, I read through more than 60 studies, articles, and reviews, and interviewed nine researchers and health experts about their work.

Two decades ago this month, a guy named Mirsky changed the internet forever in his own subtle way. His product? A site called Mirsky’s Worst of the Web. It was one of the internet’s first true phenomena and an icon of Web 1.0 culture. For a couple of years, he could count press mentions from sources as prominent as The Washington Post, People, and The Los Angeles Times. But in October 1996, he decided he was sick of the internet grind–and he quit...