The Key of You: The Symphony of Your Biological Clocks
Western medicine prides itself on the ability to diagnose and treat a variety of maladies that a very short time ago were considered...
Stay Dark, Stay Bitter—and Stay Healthy
Hershey, Pennsylvania may be proud of their namesake, but they have nothing on the ancient Aztecs. It’s speculated that chocolate,...
How Your Chair is Literally Killing You
Granted, when you think about all the things that are slowly killing you, things like second-hand smoke, the chemicals in your food, and...
Performance Hacking Sleep
What is the evolutionary purpose of sleep? Doesn’t it seem like a huge concession to spend a third of your life inactive? Or is it an...
The Calorie Myth, or, Jeans Theory
There are a couple of things you can go to the bank on: Any major city with a sports team is going to hit up its populace to fund a new...
Sing a Song of Willpower
“Oh, the thigh bone’s connected to the leg bone and the leg bone’s connected to the…” You probably learned some version of this classic...
Save a Life: Take a Nap
Are you sleep-deprived? If you’re a working adult in America, I can probably answer the question for you: yes. Or at least,...
Jonesing for a Soda? Here's Why
When we think of addiction, we might think of the heroin junkie lying on a dirty mattress with a needle in his arm, or a sweaty rockstar...
Are You Brainwashed? Hopefully Yes.
When you think of brainwashing, the name Patty Hearst might come to mind. Daughter of the late newspaper tycoon Randolph Hearst, in 1974,...
Hey, Wake Up!
On May 23, 1987 Kenneth Parks drove to his in-laws' house in the middle of the night and brutally murdered his wife’s mother and...
