 Investigations into the intersection of science and humanity.
By Jennifer Fisher Wilson |
| Take Two Hookworms and Call Me in the Morning We spent decades trying to eradicate hookworm. Whoops?
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| A Model Body In the 19th century, doctors and artists worked together. Should they again in the 21st?
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| A Tear The smell of women's tears turns off men. What other smelly signs are we sending?
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| Getting the Green Light Scientists have used gene therapy to correct color blindness in monkeys. Will humans now see the light?
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| Aging Stressfully Stop stressing over your age — research shows it only speeds up the process!
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| Experimental Nonfiction I'm often fascinated by scientists' intelligence, but I'm always impressed by their confidence.
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| A Sense of Loss Ever heard how you can't eat just one chip? You might soon be able to blame biology!
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| Wintry Mix New research reveals why winter is chock full of such discontent.
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| A Hairy Predicament Siberians once threw lice on visitors to show love. After getting lice myself, I can say Siberians had a weird definition of love.
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| Got Gout? Once the "disease of kings," gout is back with a vengeance.
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| Smell Ya Later? We can measure eyesight and hearing. So why not smell?
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| The Sweet Smell of Species Success Our noses don't like the smell of BO, but maybe our brains do.
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| Now Just Relax... Meditators always thought happiness could be learned. Now scientists are agreeing.
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| Losing My Mind My terrible memory makes me worry I have Alzheimer's. Luckily hints are emerging as to what exactly that means.
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| D Day If vitamin D is something everyone takes for granted, why are we talking about rickets in 2008?
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| The Mosquito and the Itch Mosquito bites make us feel itchy. But scratching one may actually be an emotional response.
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| The Oily Truth The connection between ibuprofen and olive oil may finally end the healthy diet debate.
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| Night Terrors Chronic sleep loss leads to bad decisions, obesity, and disease. An argument for the nap.
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| Beauty Secrets There's Classical beauty. And then there's Make Me a Supermodel.
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| Allergic Response Why twice as many people now suffer from allergies, and why that won't change any time soon.
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| What's Your Doomsday? We fear death. So why don't we fear the things that will truly bring it on?
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| The Blusher Darwin said blushing is the most human of all the expressions. He was obviously not a chronic blusher.
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| Trans Phat At home, our columnist normally denies her deep-seated junk food urges. In Denmark, she didn't have to. How a McDonald's in Copenhagen is better than one in the U.S.
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