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Economic environment during infancy linked with substance use, delinquent behavior in adolescence
The larger economic environment during infancy may be associated with subsequent substance use and delinquent behavior during adolescence.
Top health stories for 2012: Dr. Brian Goldman's picks
When it comes to the top health stories of the year, medical breakthroughs often get the most attention. But in 2012, it's the ones that shine an unflattering light...
Happy New Year! Taste the science of champagne
Science editor Alan Boyle's blog: If you really want to impress your champagne-sipping friends, serve your bubbly with a side dish of science.
The Most and Least Influential Social Media Celebs
Who tops Lady Gaga, Bieber and Ashton Kutcher? You might be surprised.
A lifeline for parents concerned about a child's mental health
NAMI is a valuable resource for parents searching for help in a labyrinthine and bewildering mental health care system.Lynn Goodloe saw her son's grades begin to fall as he developed...
Does Pot Use Cause Psychosis, Or Does Psychosis Cause Pot Use?
Cannabis Bud Wikimedia CommonsReefer madness! Pot causes psychosis! Except maybe not. The link between marijuana and psychosis in teenagers is ripe for a correlation-causation debacle. Studies have indicated there's a relationship between psychotic...
Alcohol: Social Lubricant for 10,000 Years
Recent archaeological discoveries reveal that primitive alcohol may have been a social lubricant for Stone Age people too
Facebook fixes New Year's Eve message privacy flaw, report says
Security loophole the let random strangers view private notes was discovered and addressed on the cusp of the new year
Tweeting the news as it happened in 2012
In 2012, when something happens that will end up on the news, often the first place people write about it is on Twitter. These are some of the most compelling...
The definitive eight-point guide to email inbox nirvana | Oliver Burkeman
Drowning in email? Want a clean slate for 2013? Follow these simple steps. And yes, I'm being prescriptive: trust me, I knowI've written fairly frequently in the past about managing email and...
Our Favorite Science Infographics Of 2012
100,000 Stars GoogleA roundup of the data visualizations and illustrations that best conveyed the year in science As an increasingly connected world generates ever-more data sets, and the tools to examine and analyze...
From Armchair Paralympian to Paedosavile: my words of 2012 | Charlie Brooker
Never mind omnishambles – my personal dictionary tells you all you need to know about the past yearThere were many words and phrases that made it big in 2012. Omnishambles. Gangnam Style....
The Guardian Audio Edition: December 31st 2012
A selection of articles from the Guardian newspaper and online made available in audio.Ghaith Abdul-Ahad writes on Syrian rebels sidetracked by the scramble for the spoils of war.Edward Helmore on Ilion - the...
Hunger-striking chief calls for action amidst health concerns
On First Nations Chief Theresa Spence's 20th day of her politically motivated hunger strike, Canadians and politicians are answering her plea for solidarity for her cause.
Rita Levi-Montalcini, pioneering Italian biologist, dies at 103
Italy mourns loss of Jewish scientist who worked undercover under the Fascists and won the Nobel prize for medicine in 1986Rita Levi-Montalcini, a biologist who conducted underground research in defiance of Fascist persecution...
The Future of Science in 2013
While it is customary to look back at the end of the year to review what has occurred, it can be more challenging to look ahead and see what the next year...
Fashion wish list: what we like this week - in pictures
The Weekend fashion team picks their five favourite high-street finds each week
Weekender: Trevor Sargeant, artist, 79
'I celebrate every day, so why should I celebrate New Year's Eve?'I'm only a year off 80. I'm delighted I've been spared. It is a marvellous experience to be living on this planet,...
What I see in the mirror: Marie Osmond
'Five years ago I lost 50lb doing Dancing With The Stars – I call it Dancing With The Starved!'People say that Donny and I look alike. I don't see it, but I...
New Year's Eve kit
'Why anyone feels they must suddenly embrace glitter, novelty falsies and pouffed-up hair to mark the year's end is beyond me'I refuse to go out on New Year's Eve. On the rare...
Jess dolls up for New Year's Eve
'The challenge is to embrace the new year spirit without showing an unseemly amount of enthusiasm'It has become terribly uncool to care about New Year's Eve. The in thing, these days, is...
Lauren Laverne on fashion: surviving the January sales
Navigating the January sales can be a shopping nightmare. But not if you know next year's key trends…I used to be a really good shopper. I doubt that counts as an actual talent...
Pirelli calendar turns over a new leaf with war photographer Steve McCurry
To create its 40th calendar, the tyre company headed to Rio to do something out of character – get the great Steve McCurry to shoot the models with their clothes onDuring its...
Why don't more girls study physics?
Despite efforts to get more women into science labs almost half of Britain's co-ed schools have no female students taking A-level physics. Are sexist attitudes still to blame – or is it...
Are video games really the villains in our violent age?
The Sandy Hook school massacre has revived concerns about the effects of first-person shooter games, but some of them are actually good for youThe number of aliens you kill may directly contribute to...
Goodbye chillaxing, hello omnishambles: the phrases that fell in and out of fashion this year
How our language is changingIt is often claimed, usually by people justifying offences against grammar, that language evolves. It doesn't. Evolution implies gradual change over a long period. It also contains the notion...
Sunday Routine | Court Wing: Court Wing Works Out on Sundays by Keeping Up With His Toddler
Court Wing, the head trainer and co-founder of CrossFit NYC, gets in some exercise by chasing his 20-month-old son and exploring new neighborhoods.
The Lives They Lived: Lesley Brown, the Pioneering ‘Test-Tube’ Mother
The incidental bravery of the woman who changed the answer to the question “Where do babies come from?”