How the Other Half Lifts: What Your Workout Says About Your Social Class
Why can't triathletes and weightlifters get along?
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Can’t Rent Me Love: One Woman’s Battle Against Pet Fads
Humans are hardwired to go jelly-kneed around creatures with kinderschema—infant traits like big eyes, big head, and small body. Can we resist it?
The Decline of the Physical Exam in Modern Medicine
Doctors today are too uncomfortable with uncertainty.
Alien Baby: Is Your Zygote American Enough?
The complicated relationship between citizenship and genetics.
Why Do We Keep Kicking Kids Out of School?
In a zero-tolerance era, at least one principal, armed with studies that show how suspensions disengage students and funnel them into a "school to prison" pipeline, is taking a different approach.
The Myth of Supervision: Child Safety Isn’t About You
Increased vigilance isn't necessarily the best way to prevent child-safety issues and injuries.
Friends With Benefits: Inside Facebook’s Compassion Research Day
Psychologists, sociologists, and neuroscientists like Facebook—and Facebook likes them back.