You Make Me Feel So Young: Memory and Self-Perception of Age Are Correlated
Today's Wall Street Journal cites recent research indicating that your perception of your age may influence your cognitive functioning
On The Art of Possibility
Many books that claim to support such perspective shifts vastly oversimplify the approach and offer cliché encouragements to "think outside the box," The Art of Possibility avoids both oversimplification and cliché, adeptly guiding the reader to develop modes of thinking that can prompt such shifts.
Denter of the Week: Skip Franklin
This week’s featured Denter is Skip Franklin, co-founder of Serial Entrepreneurs Anonymous, an organization dedicated to helping future entrepreneurs.
The 700 Terabyte Gram of DNA
Some folks at Harvard have figured out how to write -- and read -- insanely large amounts of data in strands of DNA.
Google Aims to Reinvent the Housecall
The modernization of medicine has all but eliminated the housecall, but Google aims to bring it back - after a fashion - with it's "Helpouts" offering.
Prosthetic Limbs that Can Feel
scientists are using the phantom limb to develop prosthetics that can not only be moved by an amputee, but that can actually experience sensation in the phantom limb.
A Look Back at the Other Pill that Changed Everything
A new documentary short in the New York Times' "Retro Report" series looks at the cultural and medical impact of Prozac and the entire class of drugs that followed in its wake.
Looking for Dents in Unforeseen Places
USAID has recently issued a $5 Million Grand Challenge to help combat Ebola in West Africa: more breathable hazmat suits.
Tackling Clotting Problems with Biomimicry
When it comes to the problem of blood clotting in patients using pacemakers or during kidney dialysis, the answer may be found in a carnivorous plant.
Complex PTSD: Putting a Dent in Our Understanding of Trauma-Induced Psychiatric Disorders
A deepening understanding of how a wide variety of traumatic experiences can result in changes in both brain and behavior has yielded a new category of proposed PTSD diagnosis: Complex Post Traumatic Stress Disorder or C-PTSD.