It is one of the most isolated island communities in the world. The tiny Pacific island of Palmerston is visited by a supply ship twice a year – at most – and the long and hazardous journey deters all but the most intrepid visitors. What’s more, most of its 62 inhabitants are descended from one man – an Englishman who settled there 150 years ago.
Month: March 2015
A.D.H.D. Experts Re-evaluate Study’s Zeal for Drugs
Twenty years ago, more than a dozen leaders in child psychiatry received $11 million from the National Institute of Mental Health to study an important question facing families with children with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder: Is the best long-term treatment medication, behavioral therapy or both?
The Personality Trait That Most Often Predicts Success
The only major personality trait that consistently leads to success is conscientiousness.
“It’s emerging as one of the primary dimensions of successful functioning across the lifespan,” Paul Tough writes in “How Children Succeed.” “It really goes cradle to grave in terms of how people do.”
9 Signs You’ve Found Your Soulmate
Mention the word “soulmate” to a group of people and you’re bound to get a few eye rolls. The idea that there’s one magical person for you who you’ll fall in love with instantly and never disagree with is just not realistic.
What does exist — at least for many people — is a person who you know instinctively, who you connect with on the deepest level and who allows you to grow as a person within the relationship. When that person is a romantic partner, you’ve come across something truly special.
So how do you know when you’ve found The One?
Who Knew? Husbands Can Be Nagged to Death
Danish research suggests a demanding spouse and whiny kids can send a person to an early grave–and that men are more vulnerable than women.
America’s Driving Behavior
Americans do some pretty dumb, dangerous things while driving, according to the results of a new Harris poll.
The White Knight
Nicholas Kristof wants to save the world with his New York Times columns. Why are so many of them wrong?
Guns Kill Children
The overwhelming evidence that pediatricians are right and the NRA is wrong.
Remembering, as an Extreme Sport
The last match of the tournament had all the elements of a classic showdown, pitting style versus stealth, quickness versus deliberation, and the world’s foremost card virtuoso against its premier numbers wizard.
If not quite Ali-Frazier or Williams-Sharapova, the duel was all the audience of about 100 could ask for. They had come to the first Extreme Memory Tournament, or XMT, to see a fast-paced, digitally enhanced memory contest, and that’s what they got.
The Oldest Profession Evolves—How the Web Transformed Prostitution
The Internet has lowered the bar for entry, and brought new buyers and sellers into the sex market, reports Greg Gilderman.