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How Drug Companies Distort Science: Q&A with Ben Goldacre
What you don’t know about how drugs are tested and marketed could hurt you, says author Ben Goldacre in his book Bad Pharma
Q&A: What Really Goes on In Drug Rehabs
In a new book, author Anne Fletcher reveals the good and the bad state of care in drug rehab facilities.
Q&A: Merry Widows and Some Surprising Truths about Grief
A group of widows finds their own way to move on after losing loved ones
Q&A with Robin & Samantha Henig on Today’s Youth: Are the Kids All Right?
Are today’s young adults struggling for too long, unable to leave the nest after years of helicopter parenting— or are they just reliving the same issues that previously stumped their elders?
Q&A: Willpower Expert Roy Baumeister on Staying in Control
Tips on shoring up your willpower and sticking with those New Year’s resolutions
How to Make New Year’s Resolutions Stick: Q&A with an Expert on Change
It’s time to set goals for 2013, and a psychologist has some hints for helping you make those changes last
Q&A: Oliver Sacks on Hallucinations
The best-selling author and neurologist discusses hearing voices and seeing gnomes in his new book Hallucinations
Learning from Psychopaths: Q&A With Psychologist Kevin Dutton
It’s too simplistic to think of psychopaths as being murderers or law-breakers, says Oxford psychologist Kevin Dutton.
Q&A: Neuroscientist Larry Young on Sex, Drugs & Love Among Voles
He doesn’t claim to have the answer for why fools fall in love, but psychiatrist Larry Young hopes studying prairie voles will help.
Q&A With UK Scientist Who Gave Out Ecstasy on Live TV
Last month, Dr. David Nutt, the UK’s former scientific advisor to the government on drugs, gave 25 British volunteers ecstasy (MDMA) on live TV.
Why Solving Puzzles Is Fun: Q&A with Consciousness Researcher Daniel Bor
The evolutionary link between acquiring good information and survival may have given rise to both consciousness and the pleasure of problem-solving
Why Humans Have Color Vision, and Other Qs & As with Neuroscientist Mark Changizi
Why do humans see in color? According to neuroscientist Mark Changizi, who left academia to run a research institute called 2Ai, it’s so that we could read the emotions of others. In his book, Harnessed, published last summer, …
