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.

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.

The birth control pill, which put a dent not just in science and medicine, but in the dynamics of human interaction, has a new biography out.The book tells the thrilling, but often ethically compromised story of birth control rabble rouser Margaret Sanger, suffragette Katharine McCormick, controversial researcher Gregory Pincus, and physician John Rock - as they developed the most impactful invention of the modern age.

Fast Company has a great article on the paradoxical traits of creative personalities based on the work of psychology professor and noted creativity expert Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi that rang true for me as both an artist and a geek.

Drs. May-Britt and Edvard I. Moser are newly minted Nobel laureates along with their mentor Dr. John O'Keefe. The committee honored them for their discovery of the specific cells, now known as "grid cells," that are responsible for representing the three-dimensional map that the brain makes as it travels through a space.

A recent post in Fast Company highlights the increasing popularity of "giving while living" styles of charity:

"And the minute they'd gone," says Lynne, "I leaped up. I leaped on his desk, I leaped off his desk. I danced all around the room. I had the most fabulous time. And he said - he immortalized; I really owe my whole career, in a way, and I suppose my life to this man - he said, there is nothing wrong with your child. She's a born dancer."