Adolescence: What's the Matter with Kids Today?

10/27/14. Review of Laurence Steinberg's book on adolescence - "The Age of Opportunity."


http://online.wsj.com/articles/what-sends-teens-toward-triumph-or-tribulation-1413992026?KEYWORDS=adolescence

When He Won't Admit He's Wrong

10/25/14. Wisdom from psychologist Dan Ariely.

http://online.wsj.com/articles/when-he-wont-admit-hes-wrong-1414181479?KEYWORDS=dan+ariely

Barack Obama - the bewildered bystander?

10/24/14. Charles Krauthammer reminds us that President Obama keeps getting angry at government failures --- but forgets he heads the government.




http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/barack-obama-bewildered-bystander/2014/10/23/335bd0e2-5aeb-11e4-b812-38518ae74c67_story.html

Go gently into the night...

10/24/14. Paul McHugh reviews Atul Gawande's, "Being Mortal."




http://online.wsj.com/articles/book-review-being-mortal-by-atul-gawande-1413501104

What If Age Is Nothing But A Mind Set?

10/22/14. "You're only as old as you look --- and you are really old when you don't look."


                                           --- Groucho Marx


http://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/26/magazine/what-if-age-is-nothing-but-a-mind-set.html?emc=edit_tnt_20141022&nlid=21288644&tntemail0=y&_r=1

What the Ebola Experts Miss

10/21/14. Beware of experts --- they are like a high powered rifle with a bad aim.


http://online.wsj.com/articles/bret-stephens-what-the-ebola-experts-miss-1413847021

Camp Fire Stories May Have Sparked Early Societal Learning

10/21/14. 




http://www.thestar.com.my/Lifestyle/Features/2014/09/30/campfire-stories-may-have-sparked-early-societal-learning/

Why Doctors Need Stories

10/20/14. How do you know if a computer may possess human intelligence?  If you ask the computer a question and the computer says, "Let me tell you a story."


http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/10/18/why-doctors-need-stories/?_php=true&_type=blogs&_r=0

Does Time Have a Future?

10/20/14. The Grand Illusion.


http://www.laphamsquarterly.org/time/grand-illusion#

Why Short Men Make Better Husbands

10/15/14. The truth revealed.


http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-29464446

On Identifying Liars

10/11/14. Paul Ekman's work critically examined.


http://chronicle.com/article/The-Liars-Tell/149261/

On the Prevalence of Mental Disorders in the United States

10/10/14.


http://beta.samhsa.gov/data/sites/default/files/NSDUH-DR-N2MentalDis-2014-1/Web/NSDUH-DR-N2MentalDis-2014.htm

Why Are Zombies So Popular?

10/10/14. Understanding the walking dead.


http://www.city-journal.org/2014/24_4_urb-the-walking-dead.html

Why I Hope to Die at 75?

10/8/14. A physician and a key architect of Obama Care tells his views on life and death.


http://www.theatlantic.com/features/archive/2014/09/why-i-hope-to-die-at-75/379329/

The Psychology of Torture

10/9/14. Are Stanley Milgram's experiments valid today?


http://aeon.co/magazine/psychology/why-do-we-keep-repeating-the-milgram-experiments/

A Brief History of Mental Illness in the West

10/8/2014. If mental illness is a myth, it is a myth with a genetic component.


http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/rearvision/asylums-to-antidepressants/5765544

On the Black Family

10/6/14. Interview with Jason Riley - writer for the Wall Street Journal.




http://www.realclearreligion.org/articles/2014/10/06/jason_riley_the_realclearreligion_interview.html

Discovering Our Inner GPS

10/06/14. Nobel Prize in Medicine.

http://in.reuters.com/article/2014/10/06/us-nobel-medicine-idINKCN0HV0Q620141006

Psychology Behind Free Samples

10/1/14. There is such a thing as a free lunch.


http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2014/10/the-psychology-behind-costcos-free-samples/380969/