Do digital methods of communication connect us the way interaction in the real world does? If we’re chatting online, are we really together? And what does it mean to be alive in the emerging world of artificial intelligence?
Love & Relationships
What Your Brain Looks Like After 20 Years of Marriage
Contrary to popular opinion, people who say they are still madly in love with their spouses after more than two decades are not crazy. At least, some of them aren’t. And in answer to your next question, apparently they’re not lying either.
Why We Form Societies: It’s Our Big Babies
Newborns may seem tiny to their adoring moms and dads, but most other primate parents would disagree. According to Jeremy DeSilva, an anthropologist at Boston University, human babies weigh about 6% of what their mothers weigh, …
How Social Networks Spread Eating Disorders
Teens are undeniably influenced by those around them, and by what they see on social media from television to the internet. So what happens when western media infiltrates a remote island society?
Edwards Marrying Hunter. Really?
In a contest of reprehensibility, it’s hard to call who takes the blue ribbon among John Edwards, Rielle Hunter and the editors of the National Enquirer. In the latest installment, the Enquirer is reporting that Edwards has …
The Crying Game: Women’s Tears Dial Down Testosterone
Men tend to hate it when women cry — for reasons that they often have difficulty articulating. Now, new research suggests why — men may be biologically primed to react to a woman’s tears.
The Future of Birth Control
Perhaps at no other point in history has the role of contraception in society been so thoroughly explored, analyzed and debated.
The Divorce So Bad it Made the Family Judge Flip Out
Spending days ringside to other people’s parents bickering and arguing and general dysfunction takes a soul strong of stomach and long on patience, which is why only a hardy few to be a family court judge.
5 New Reasons to Get (or Stay) Married this Year
You probably already know that married people on the whole are healthier, wealthier and have more satisfying sex lives than singletons or divorced people. You also already know that, absent some serious conflict, your kids would …
5 New Year’s Resolutions for People Who Hate Resolutions
The trouble with New Year’s resolutions is keeping them. So if you’re one of the many who have preemptively given up on losing weight or exercising or saving money in 2011, here are five eminently more manageable goals that will …
Memo to Gamer-Wives: You Can’t Take it with You
A new candidate for membership in the unusual divorce settlement club: a judge in China has reportedly denied a woman’s claim that she owns half of the virtual assets accrued during her marriage.
How to Win Friends: Have a Big Amygdala?
Got a big social network? Then you probably have a large amygdala, according to a new study that found a connection between the size of this brain region and the number of social relationships a person has.
Hef? The Marrying Kind?
There are two schools of thought on Hugh Hefner. According to one school, he’s a skeevy old has-been in his pajamas who created this cheesy media company in the dark ages that exploited both bunnies and women, and who now stars …