Mental Health & Society

Is science political?

Yes, we know — dogs are warm and friendly and want nothing more than to spend time interacting with their human companions. Cats, on the other hand, have a chillier reputation.

An interesting thing happened on the way to verifying claims that an emerging technology can assist in concussion prevention and recovery: a resulting phone call with the firm's CEO delivered clarity, transparency and admission of a PR misste

Politics makes utter fools out of otherwise rational people. The vitriol aimed at President George W.

If the average person is asked to assess their own driving skills, most will give themselves an above average rating.

Are you your dog? Is your dog you? Or, elements of your personality traits anyway. Researchers set out to explore these and other queries. Can we extrapolate from this new science to apply these questions to your human children?

The Brookings Institute recently released a study on what it terms the Privacy Paradox, which argues that our concerns about

Self-righteousness, gratitude, sympathy, sincerity, and guilt – what if these social behaviours are biologically influenced, encoded within our genes and shaped by the forces of evolution to promote the survival of the human species?

Man's best friend — the dog — is a versatile creature. Dogs can work as herders, guards, guide dogs and even provide therapy for hospitalized patients.

Even with the hot-button topic of abortion, there is one thing that all people can agree upon: It is preferable to have as few abortions as possible. And recent data from the CDC indicates good news.