• Obama Must Take Hit for Pot Talk

    The apparent heroin overdose death of actor Philip Seymour Hoffman, who first used drugs decades ago, is a reminder of just how difficult it is to get a handle on drug abuse and the youth culture that enables it. One reason for the surge in heroin use over the past five years is a crackdown…

  • Microbial Warfare: Anthrax Assassin

    A DEAD zebra in the open savannah of Namibia’s Etosha National Park would be an off-putting encounter for most people. But for Holly Ganz of the University of California, Davis and an international team of researchers, the striped ungulate’s carcass reeked of opportunity. Read the rest at The Economist.

  • Sit Down. We Need to Talk About Norovirus

    Be thankful you live a country that has good medical care.

  • Dream Analysis Reveals if You Are Psychotic

    “The Freudian notion that ‘dreams are the royal road to the unconscious’ is clinically useful, after all.”

  • White People Have More Oral Sex

    The long-standing rumors are probably true.

  • Will Millennials Rescue American Science?

    Millennials, it’s going to be up to us to turn things around.