Some people think the palm lines in human hands foretell the future through the practice of palmistry. However, there's also a scientific explanation.
Open offices make employees less productive, less happy, and more likely to get sick. So why do 70% of Americans work in them?
Here's the story of how limited scientific studies in the 1980s led to predictions that a generation of children would be damaged for life. Those predictions turned out to be wrong.
Dear Consumers: A disturbing trend has come to our attention. You, the people, are thinking more about health, and you’re starting to do something about it. This cannot continue.
One night in the fall of 1987, a college freshman ate half of a microdot of acid on his way to a party. The tingling euphoria, splendid visuals, and sudden bursts of insight mostly wore off by the time he retired to his dorm. But the following morning, some effects still remained.
You know you always forget.
As suicide rates climb steeply in the US a growing number of psychiatrists are arguing that suicidal behaviour should be considered as a disease in its own right, rather than as a behaviour resulting from a mood disorder.
The tragic deaths of 29 coal miners in a massive explosion in 2010 have provided new evidence of a resurgence of the disease known as black lung.
Tobias Fünke, the analrapist-turned-out-of-work-actor, famously suffers—along with dozens of others—from the syndrome known as "Never Nude" in which he has a crippling fear of being naked. There really are people in the world who are pathologically afraid of nudity—they suffer from gymnophobia.
That groundbreaking clinical trial in the New York Times? It's my study -- and I'm 15 months clean.
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