Hurricane Ike churns west, triggers fears

For those who live in its path, hurricane season stirs up anxiety even before devastating winds and rains hit land.

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Looking for love or lust? Your face gives it away

It’s no use being coy. If you’re looking for a fling, it might just be written all over your face.

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Analysts Ask: What Was Spitzer Thinking?

It's the simplest question in the world, but it was the one repeated over and over Monday after the staggering news broke about Gov. Eliot Spitzer: What in heaven's name was the man thinking?

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US Psychologists Scrap Interrogation Ban

The nation's largest group of psychologists scrapped a measure Sunday that would have prohibited members from assisting interrogators at Guantanamo Bay and other U.S. military detention centers.

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Psychologists Weigh Interrogation Ban

Stung by reports implicating mental health specialists in prisoner abuse scandals at Guantanamo Bay and Abu Ghraib, the nation's largest group of psychologists is considering banning its members from interrogations of terror suspects.

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Pathological hubris is a disease that can plague leaders and threaten international security. Doctors must put transparency ahead of confidentiality and disclose leaders' sicknesses to the public.

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Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas asked his fellow jurists to stand behind his grudge match with Obama, regarding the president-elect's citizenship, and they promptly batted his flatted-footed, no-spin, no-arc, no-chance-in-hell shot into the nose-bleed seats.

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Why did Jonathan Murray hang himself at a public school with a chord given to him by a teacher? Mediacondom.com reports.

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What was really interesting about the study, though, is that they found a holographic effect with happiness. If something makes you happy, your friends, who may not even be around, have a higher chance of feeling happy, too.

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Memo: NV/MSNBC Christmas Party

Dear fellow Newsviners, in case you did not get the memo, I am forwarding to you the memos I have received which will provide you with the latest status on the company party as I understand it.

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This article aims to give you a greater understanding of female psychology and why women choose certain men, and how you can improve yourself physically and mentally to be the ideal man for every women.

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BAGHDAD, IRAQ -- During a humanitarian aid distribution in Baghdad's Sadr City, Staff Sgt. Kent Crandall brought along a nifty iPod accessory: an Army psychological operations loudspeaker.

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A person's unconscious attitudes toward science and God may be fundamentally opposed, researchers report, depending on how religion and science are used to answer "ultimate" questions such as how the universe began or the origin of life.

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Female psychology is an amazing subject, something almost every man wants to understand and yet almost all don't even know the basics.

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This family's reunion sounds like one to avoid. Five men, all cousins, charged with two murders in Louisville. I'd be interested in the history of this family.

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Cereal producers learned an important lesson: Children are suckers.

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The Great Debate - is Obama Good For Black America?

This Sunday, December 14th at 3pm, The Great Harlem Debate will take place in my home town, New York City's Africa Town. Prominent community Scholars, activists, organizers and politicians will square off. I thought all African Americans were pro Obama.

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At a recent medical conference in Chicago, a team of radiologists from Nationwide Children's Hospital presented intriguing X-ray evidence of a psychological phenomenon — what they believed was a new form of self-injury among teens and adolescents.

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Excerpt: In the last few years, psychologists and researchers have been digging up hard data on a question previously left to philosophers: What makes us happy? Researchers like the father-son team Ed Diener and Robert Biswas-Diener, Stanford psychologist Sonja Lyubomirsky, and e …

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The paradigm has shifted. Dating is dated. Hooking up is here to stay. (For those over 30 years old: hooking up is a casual sexual encounter with no expectation of future emotional commitment. Think of it as a one-night stand with someone you know.)

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"At the Army Science Conference we are showcasing seven areas we believe will give rise to disruptive technologies for our Soldiers in the future," he said. "It is not just the individual areas themselves, but it is also the synergy that exists among these areas."

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Do you see that, friends, do you see what the Chicago Sun-Times is writing about Blagodicks' hair? This is like a bad version of 9/11 — the psychologists (the intelligence community) could tell from his sexy hair (the intelligence) that he would be comically corrupt (fly into …

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A desire to rule the world may be a good thing if you're over 60 and worried about losing your mental faculties.

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CHICAGO (Reuters) – Losing weight is easier when there is money on the line, U.S. researchers said on Tuesday.

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One surprising truth about hypocrisy is its irrelevance: the fact that someone is a hypocrite does not mean that his or her position on an issue is false. Environmentalists who litter do not by doing so disprove the claims of environmentalism.

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SYDNEY (Reuters) - Teachers using red pen to mark students' work could be harming their psyche as the color is too aggressive, according to education strategies drafted by an Australian state government.

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On the psychology of fat: It's not only about hunger and satiety

I read a lengthy article about the causes of obesity a few days ago.

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America's Children, How They Learn, and How We Can Make Teaching Better. Part 1

"Nothing renders a man so powerless as losing faith in ones self." Daniel Slack

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When Hakim Iqbal goes to the mosque today to celebrate the Muslim holiday of Eid al-Adha, he will wear a black armband — a sign of solidarity with Mumbai's Hindus and Christians after the terrorist attacks on this city that left 171 dead. More Articles

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