Messing With Your Brain to Reduce Prejudice
New research suggests threat-based instinctive reactions can be modified by a simple procedure.
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Chamomile Tea, the Life Extender?
A new study finds lower mortality rates among Hispanic women who drink chamomile tea as an herbal remedy.
What Was Famine?
The political economy of mass starvation, and why it is largely a thing of the past.
Could Strong Hands Mean a Longer Life?
A study finds that grip strength is a stronger predictor of future health than blood pressure, though the reasons why remain unclear.
Why Atheists Terrify Believers
Their presence challenges fundamental defense mechanisms that protect people from fear of death.
Death and Dying, Lost in Translation
Language barriers top the list of challenges doctors face with end-of-life conversations with patients from different ethnic backgrounds.
From Humbug! to Humble: The Power of the Scrooge Effect
A new study finds thoughts of our mortality can make us more generous.
This Last of Meeting Places
Confronting our mortality with vague metaphors, religious glosses, and computer analogies.
The Strange Parallel Histories of Plant Science and Death Science
Botanists and forensic scientists developed the same theory in the late 19th century. They might have a lot to learn from each other, if they would talk to each other now.