As many as a million young people in Japan are thought to remain holed up in their homes – sometimes for decades at a time. Why?
Category: culture
How To Make Worldwide Brain News (No News And Very Little Brain Required!)
The term “digital dementia” wasn’t widely known until a story originating in South Korea recently broke around the world. According to certain doctors, an alarming percentage of Korean teenagers are suffering from degenerative memory loss attributed to the overuse of smartphones.
Endangered languages: the full list
How many endangered languages are there in the World and what are the chances they will die out completely?
Italy’s Centenarian Generation
As more and more Italians reach their 100th birthdays, younger generations are supporting a growing social safety net yet have fewer job opportunities.
Why Is the United States So Sick?
The director of a massive new study says: “It’s almost everything.”
The Dark Side of Liberation
“What Soldiers Do: Sex and the American G.I. in World War II France,” a book by the historian Mary Louise Roberts, documents rape and other misconduct among the greatest generation.
Overtested Americans: When cancer isn’t cancer at all
Basically, cancer is scary, but some kinds may be more boogeyman-in-the-closet scary than serial killer scary.
Why Life in America Can Literally Drive You Insane
In “ The Epidemic of Mental Illness: Why?” ( New York Review of Books, 2011), Marcia Angell, former editor-in-chief of the New England Journal of Medicine, discusses over-diagnosis of psychiatric disorders, pathologizing of normal behaviors, Big Pharma corruption of psychiatry, and the adverse effects of psychiatric medications. While diagnostic expansionism and Big Pharma certainly deserve a large share of the blame for this epidemic, there is another reason.
The “Naughty Bits”
Study Challenges Popular Perception of New ‘Hookup Culture’ On College Campuses
A University of Portland study challenges the popular perception that there is a “new and pervasive hookup culture” among contemporary college students.