The Neanderthal DNA you didn’t know you have is likely causing you some problems. A new study by the University of Washington and Vanderbilt University has found that the small of amount of Neanderthal DNA that most people have is linked to a wide variety of less-than-enjoyable conditions, “including depression, nicotine addiction, heart attacks, corns
READ MOREAmerican Housewife, Helen Ellis’ critically acclaimed, darkly comic, collection of short stories, is the latest addition to the conversation about domestic life. The book was born from Ellis’ anonymous Twitter account @WhatIDoAllDay – a question she and many other women who manage a home often get asked. “Helen Ellis Is Giving Housewives a Very Good
READ MOREA few weeks ago I posted and asked questions about a significant rise in the reported number of cases of euthanasia in Belgium. This week, a new paper published in the peer-review journal JAMA Psychiatry reports the results of a study of some Dutch patients who, suffering primarily from mental illness rather than terminal physical illness,
READ MOREWhether it’s First Lady cookie bake-offs, 7-Eleven coffee drinkers, or Halloween mask sales, there have been any number of fun and admittedly crazy ways to predict the outcome of presidential elections in recent years. But there’s also a longstanding and largely successful way to predict the nominee for the party not currently in the White
READ MOREFollowing the news of Antonin Scalia’s unexpected death on Saturday, Slate Magazine ran an article by Yury Kapgan about the Supreme Court Justice’s superb writing abilities. According to Kapgan, Scalia’s writing was made great by “the novelty of his language, his use of metaphor, and his wicked sense of humor.” Kapgan is undoubtedly correct about
READ MORELast week, people from around the world were moved by the above photo, which showed 46-year-old Zhang Jinli kneeling in front of his parents at a railway station, begging them for forgiveness. According to the BBC: “He was apparently begging his parents, who are both in their eighties, for forgiveness. The paper reported that Mr
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