The author of Cracked selects a battery of books that challenge received wisdom about mental illness and how to treat itI wrote Cracked: Why Psychiatry Is Doing More Harm Than Good because of the huge gulf between what most people believe about psychiatric diagnoses and medications and what the evidence actually reveals. When I started…
Four women and four men made it through pool of 6,100 applicants for opportunity to take part in leading space missionsMembers of Nasa's newest astronaut class, a group that includes the highest number of women since the program began more than 50 years ago, have been speaking about their selection.The agency's 21st astronaut class, announced…
Radioactive glassy beads created by the first nuclear explosion may hold clues to earth's distant historyThe sun was rising as a teenage boy swung a metal wand back and forth. The Geiger counter hanging at his waist clicked, testifying to the radiation streaming from the ground and through his body.The White Sands Missile Range in…
US space agency recruits four women among its eight new candidates, the highest percentage yet selectedThe US space agency Nasa has eight new astronauts – its first new batch in four years. Among the lucky candidates are the first female fighter pilot to become an astronaut in nearly two decades. A female helicopter pilot also…
US policymakers love discussing it, but the debate on food aid reform is getting tedious. Emergency interventions will always be necessary, but it is time to shift our focus to long-term solutionsSince the global food price spikes of 2008-09 and the widespread riots that ensued, the world has begun to pay more attention to food…
Professor of ophthalmology sees in greater depth after watching Martin Scorsese's Hugo in 3DA university professor who has struggled with depth perception since birth says his vision has dramatically improved after watching 3D movies.Bruce Bridgeman, a professor of psychology at the University of California, Santa Cruz, lived with poor depth perception until he watched the…
Voyage by Solar Impulse – the first to fly by night as well as day – is designed to showcase clean energy technology It took nine minutes from the time the Solar Impulse first appeared in the midnight sky, lit up along the entire elegant swoop of its Airbus-size wings, to the moment the plane…
Former vice-president – not persuaded by argument that program was legal – urges Congress and Obama to amend the lawsThe National Security Agency's blanket collection of US citizens' phone records was "not really the American way", Al Gore said on Friday, declaring that he believed the practice to be unlawful.In his most expansive comments to…
A 65-year-old Seattle woman is attempting to go 100 days on just water, shunning all medical advice in the processA Seattle woman is attempting to go 100 days without eating to prove that humans can "live on light".Naveena Shine says she believes it is possible for human beings to survive without food and is conducting…
The GOP’s latest abortion ban push is staggeringly stupid | Ana Marie Cox
The white male-dominated Republican party is still living in the stone age on social issues. It just goes from bad to worseIt's a truism verging on dogma that history favors steady progress toward equal rights for gays. The last election cycle saw incredible gains for marriage equality and representation for gays and lesbians in government.…
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