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Neuroscience: What’s going on in your brain when you read Harry Potter?
When reading about Harry Potter's adventures fighting Lord Voldemort or flying around the Quidditch field on his broomstick, we can ...
How warfare shaped female psychological evolution
Evidence suggests that warfare is an ancient part of human life, dating back to when all humans lived as hunter-gatherers ...
Genetic links found for male homosexuality, but some scientists skeptical
A large study of gay brothers adds to evidence that genes influence men's chances of being homosexual, but the results ...
Poor should “eat less”? Millionaire designer Vivienne Westwood on anti-GMO campaign denies recording
Vivienne Westwood is denying that she told poor people who can't afford organic food to "eat less," even though a radio ...
‘Urban farmers’ behind GMO labeling initiatives
When the "in" crowd wrests the levers of power from the "out" crowd, be ready to duck. Trendy slogans may ...
Why I support the Maui GMO farming moratorium initiative
Our family moved from Milwaukee, Wisconsin to Maui on April 8 of this year (2014). A few months after settling ...
Why Apple and Facebook are paying female employees to freeze eggs
The workforces of Facebook and Apple are 69 percent and 70 percent male, and the companies have been getting a lot of flack for ...
‘Corporate interests’ making us sick, warping food and medicine policies
Money in politics is making our nation sicker, threatening our national security, and ultimately destroying the very economic prosperity the ...
Is the search for “IQ genes” a fool’s errand?
Science writer David Dobbs has definitively described the voracious appetite of the "selfish gene" meme, pointing out that the notion of individual ...
Older BRCA test results may need retesting
As a naturopathic physician, I am interested in primary prevention, preventing illness, not just catching it early. Because of that, ...
Man Scalia mocked as murderer deserving of death penalty now exonerated by DNA
A North Carolina death row inmate exonerated by DNA evidence on Tuesday was once held up by Supreme Court Justice ...
How we can feed the world with GMOs and organic farming
The world's population, which has been climbing rapidly for more than a century, is expected to increase by about 2 ...
Video: Congressional panel concludes labeling would stoke GMO fears
It's pretty rare that members of Congress and all the witnesses they've called will declare out loud that Americans are ...
Dietician’s concerns over GMOs prompt embrace of organic foods
As a dietitian, I rarely recommend anything to a client that I wouldn't do myself. So when it came to ...
Faced with a sick brother, reporter wonders whether to get DNA tested
In the fall of 2010, as my brother was dying of colon cancer, I learned a terrifying secret. He also ...
Kidney disease one area where genetics underlies racial health differences
Talking about race is never just black and white, but when it comes to health, one thing is crystal clear: ...
Anti-GMO journalist, Maharishi Institute follower calls anti-GMO journalist, Reuters’ Carey Gillam, “balanced”
Reuters' journalist Carey Gillam has covered issues surrounding genetically modified foods for the past 16 years, no easy task with ...
Wade responds to racial controversy over his book ‘A Troublesome Inheritance’
hree attacks on my book A Troublesome Inheritance have appeared on The Huffington Post's blog this month. For readers puzzled ...
Insurance and genetics: Primed for discrimination
It's currently illegal in the United States for employers and health insurance companies to discriminate based on genetic information, thanks ...
Food companies need greater transparency to educate Americans
Grocery shoppers are entering a new age of concern about what they're putting in their bodies -- and we're not ...
Holding Monsanto and other corporations accountable
What does it mean to hold a corporation accountable and responsible? The Monsanto Roundup resistance story has been in plain sight for ...
Organic activist criticizes proposed FDA nutrition labels for leaving GMOs out
In February, First Lady Michelle Obama launched a media blitz to tout the FDA's proposed new rules for nutrition labels on packaged ...
Pesticides in paradise?
Many Kauai locals have been outraged to discover that their island paradise is also home to a proliferating genetically engineered ...
Controversial Iowa farmer Howard Vlieger makes case against GMOs
Howard Vlieger's first direct experience with GMOs came in 1997 when he planted a test plot comparing BT (GMO) corn to ...
DTC genetic testing companies need nudge to help patients understand results
The 23andMe controversy illustrates a stalemate over the role of direct-to-consumer genetic testing in American health care. On one side ...
FDA asked to approve “three-parent” IVF
We don't know enough about embryonic development to know that IVF with mitochondrial DNA donors is a good idea ...
Activist says GMO crops cause increase pesticide use
My problem with GMOs in plants grown for food is that most manipulation involves making them able to better withstand ...
Hey biotech pioneers, life is more than a DNA sequence
Biotech pioneers like Craig Venter might not understand the differences between digital computer code and genomics and the dangers that ...
