Nikola Tesla is often called the man who invented the 20th century, and there are lots of good reasons for that. He has become as famous, although at a later point, as many of his contemporaries, like Marie Curie and Albert Einstein. Nikola Tesla
When a group of researchers first started this long-term study 20 years ago in rural North Carolina, they didn’t expect to be presented with a sociological godsend. The original goal was simple: to observe the mental condition, performance, and health of 1,420 low-income children.
Jon Oliver covers mental health in his newest episode of Last Week Tonight and touches on many topics that we have written about on this site. Jon Oliver is correct to mention that our treatment of the mentally ill, now and historically, has been
Depression is probably the most common psychiatric problem, impacting easily 20% of the population at some point in their life (16.9% officially in the United States). Depression has a role in normal human development, especially as a reaction to events that require cognitive restructuring.
What most people know about psychopaths, or sociopaths, stems primarily from films and popular fiction. Although some of these portrayals are more accurate than others, the basic archetype is based on a “cluster” of behavioral and neurological differences. When these differences start coming together
ExxonMobil is maybe the most profitable company in the world, and also probably the biggest funder of climate change denial in the world. Although suspicion has long existed that ExxonMobil understood the dangers of “business as usual” regarding fossil fuel extraction and use, evidence
For Saudi Arabia, sometimes it’s not enough to simply behead a person who has run afoul of the government: On some occasions, there’s nothing like the crucifixion of an activist to how your dedication to human rights: A group of U.N. experts has joined
From an “imbalance of the humors” requiring leeches to a “possession by the devil” requiring whipping or an exorcism onwards to dysfunction to be cured essentially via torture, society’s perspective of mental health and treatment has come a long way to get where it
A lot of us have grown used to associating solar energy with square roof-mounted tiles and wind power with the modern version of flour mills. Our interest was perked by see-through solar glass and windmills that started using magnetic non-contact design to avoid the
Even though you probably never heard about it and they never offered it for purchase: Ford Motor Company under Henry Ford actually developed a car purportedly made out of hemp. In real life, the car was made using hemp among other materials, instead of being
