Why will half of the U.S. population have a diagnosable mental disorder?
Month: March 2015
A Seasonal Pattern to Mental Health
An analysis of Google search queries suggests that mental illnesses flourish in winter and decline in summer.
The Truth About Female Desire: It’s Base, Animalistic and Ravenous
A new book on women’s sexuality turns everything we think we know on its head.
Why Has Humanity Always Fantasized About the Capture and Rape of Women?
Misogyny’s deepest roots are exposed in the endless repetition of stories about capture and rape.
Sorry, but practice alone does not make perfect
I’ve always dismissed Malcolm Gladwell’s “10,000 hour” rule as oversimplified nonsense. So this comes as no surprise to me.
Practice only accounts for around one third of “perfection”…
Embracing the Void
The profound, ecstatic state of nothingness I achieved while floating naked in a sensory deprivation tank.
By Seth Stevenson
Is there a genius in all of us?
Those who think geniuses are born and not made should think again, says author David Shenk.
Daniel Dennett’s seven tools for thinking
Cognitive scientist and philosopher Daniel Dennett is one of America’s foremost thinkers. In this extract from his new book, he reveals some of the lessons life has taught him
Teenagers Hate Facebook, but They’re Not Logging Off
A new report released this week from the Pew Internet & American Life Project found that Facebook remains the leading social network among American teenagers. It’s also the most reviled
You Do Not Have Asperger’s
What psychiatry’s new diagnostic manual means for people on the autism spectrum.
By Amy S.F. Lutz