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Video: "Fright Night" Mintz-Plasse "McLoves" blood and gore
"Fright Night" star Christopher Mintz-Plasse stops by the What's Trending studio to talk horror movies, lady vampires and Twitter.
Neuroscientists identify brain activity that predicts how well you will remember images
Our memories work better when our brains are prepared to absorb new information, according to a new study. Scientists have now shown that activity in a specific part of the...
Start horsing around
Learning through unstructured play helps kids developRoughhousing, or tossing your children around on purpose, can be a hard sell to many parents. We worry our kids will get hurt. But...
Concussion Suit Seeks Better Health Monitoring
The litigation against the N.F.L. by former players seeks monetary damages for injured players as well as changes in the medical monitoring of players.
Less depression for working moms who expect that they 'can't do it all'
Working mothers who expressed a supermom attitude that work and home lives can be blended with relative ease showed more depression symptoms than working moms who expected that they would...
Poor women and welfare reform in US: Working without a net
The economic downturn and recession has provided the first test of the US work-based welfare reforms enacted in 1996. According to a new study, poor women have received little to...
What's Wrong With The Second Law?
What's wrong with the second law?Use your brower's 'back' button and stop reading when you can't handle speculations out of a hammock. Still reading? Ok, I have warned you. Brace yourself....
Remembering the Fallen: Memorials Gallery
The memorials in this gallery commemorate fallen soldiers and honor the victims of tragedies such as Sept. 11 and the Holocaust.
This column will change your life: Should memory boxes be given the boot?
If you keep every object from your past as proof of your existence, here's something else to print out and keep…One of the things at which I'm especially bad is remembering to...
Calgary addicts no longer given crack pipes
Alberta health officials will no longer hand out clean crack pipes to addicts in Calgary.
More Career Alternatives To Academia Beckon
I think it's heartening that people are starting to talk about careers for PhDs past Academia.read more
Insulation from public pressure leads to more accurate suicide reporting by death investigators
Medical examiners and appointed coroners are less likely to under-report suicides than are elected coroners, that's according to a new study.
Are Extroverts Ruining Psychologists' Surveys?
Outgoing folks tend to reply to surveys with extreme answers.
Hispanics Embrace the 'American Dream'
Hispanic business owners plan to keep their businesses in the family.
Stanford study vanquishes social anxieties without drugs
For most of his life, 24-year-old Steven Bringas so feared humiliating himself if he spoke that only an emergency would get him to enter a store.
Ancient Dog Skull Shows Early Pet Domestication
A 33,000-year-old canine found in a Russian cave is the most well-preserved example of how wolves became dogs, a new study says.
Survey looks at experience of mid-life and older adults returning to graduate education
Americans are remaining in the workforce longer and many are changing or advancing their careers well past age 40.
How courage can help students learn and achieve
Teaching students how to bring courage into their day-to-day school life can improve their learning, performance, and engagement at school.
More sex please, we're Greek: exposing the myth of Platonic love
Plato lent his name to Platonic love but a new book reveals that the ancient Greek philosopher never advocated love without sex.
Marcus Garvey movement owes large debt to Caribbean expats, historian finds
Conventional wisdom has long held that Marcus Garvey's Universal Negro Improvement Association, which advocated racial self-help and the unity of the African diaspora, grew out of the heady political and...
You won't prevent future riots by disregarding the psychology of crowds | Steve Reicher and Clifford Stott
Classing rioters' actions as 'mindless mayhem' – or relying on discredited notions about crowds – won't aid understandingThe Daily Mirror called last week's spate of riots mindless; the Croydon Green party called them...
Researchers outline ways to advance scientific thinking in children
Science educators aim to nurture, enrich and sustain children's natural and spontaneous interest in scientific knowledge using many different approaches. In a new paper, researchers use cognitive and developmental psychology...
Four-year-olds know that being right is not enough
As they grow, children learn a lot about the world from what other people tell them. Along the way, they have to figure out who is a reliable source of...
Research examines the black-and-white issues surrounding executions in the South
Newspaper accounts of black executions in the old South reveal a social history that intersects race with crime and punishment.
Long-term, intimate partnerships can promote unhealthy habits
New research uncovers how intimate partners believe they directly and indirectly contribute to one another's unhealthy habits.
Emergency workers will respond: Study shows first responders will report to duty, but need assistance with family matters
Worries that first responders will shirk duties in a disaster are overblown, but they do need assistance with family matters, a new study shows.
Gaps in U.S. National Institutes of Health funding success rates for black researchers identified
Black applicants from 2000-2006 were 10 percentage points less likely than white applicants to be awarded research project grants from the U.S. National Institutes of Health after controlling for factors...
Police: Dozens of teens involved in Vt. sext ring
(AP) -- Police in Vermont say nearly two dozen teenagers used school computers and a special email account to access indecent photos and videos taken by female classmates.