Health Care and Bipolar Disorder

This article deals with BiPolar Disorder. Bipolar disorder, also known as manic-depressive illness, is a brain disorder that causes unusual shifts in mood, energy, activity levels, and the ability to carry out day-to-day tasks. Symptoms of bipolar disorder are severe,...

warning: you may be dangerous to the person sitting next to you

You never considered that, did you? You don't live in your own private world. Your actions affect others. You may think that "being anti-social" means a person is unwilling to socialize... You're wrong, if so. If...

Safeway's health care program gets attention

One of the best approaches to date for dealing with medical care has been the development of the wellness program.  The estimates are that about 70% of all medical problems are directly related to...

Can you really fall in love at first sight?

According to some scientists, some species can really fall in love at first sight, but it all comes down to genetics. Scientists looked at fruit flies, which can have implications for humans, and found that the female fruit fly are already aware of which males are more...

'Polite' Britons died on Titanic

According to a BBC report, researchers have found that British passengers were more likely to die in the Titanic disaster, because they queued politely for lifeboats. " A behavioural economist says data suggests...

Afghanistan a Lost Cause??

Afghanistan is bad and getting worse.  By the next election it will likely be a bigger problem for president Obama than Iraq. "We and our friends in Kandahar are thunderstruck at recent suggestions that the...

Study Links Autism with Rainfall

Researchers at Cornell University examined the possibility of a link between environment and autism, and found that children in wetter counties within the US Northwest were more likely to have autism. ...

Gallup Daily: Obama Lead Among Likely Voters 5 to 7 Points

"PRINCETON, NJ -- Barack Obama holds a statistically significant lead over John McCain in both Gallup likely voter models, according to Oct. 27-29 Gallup Poll Daily tracking. In the traditional model, which defines likely voters based on current voting intention and past...

Weird but true tales of animal behavior

"The view from atop the food chain is quite pleasant, thank you very much, but lest we get too smug, consider:"

Two Japanese, American win 2008 physics Nobel

Subatomic partical behaviour study gets this year nobel for physics.Yoichiro Nambu,Makato Kobayashi and Toshihide Maskawa jointly shared the prize for their contribution to show why universe is  made up mostly of...

Palin on Ahmadinejad: 'He Must Be Stopped'

"By SARAH PALIN | September 22, 2008Governor Palin, the Republican nominee for vice president, was scheduled to speak today at a rally in Dag Hammarskjold Plaza to protest the appearance here of President Ahmadinejad of Iran. Her appearance was canceled by rally organizers...

Palin Hate Rant Includes Alaska Bashing

The 2008 fall political season helps usher in This Week's Top Scrooge  " Perhaps ’tis the season to go Scrooge. After all, Halloween is right around the corner (well, kinda). Before you know it, it’ll be...

The Biology of Ideology: Voting and Genes

Scientists are looking towards our genes to learn more about which way we vote, or whether or not we even choose to do so."In a wave of new research since the last presidential campaign, political scientists are...

Walking the walk: gait infers sexual history

Sexologists (where do you go to school for that?) can now determine your sexual history just by watching you walk.  In the Journal of Sexual Medicine, researcher Stuart Brody of the University of West...

Help, I'm turning into my mother

"(LifeWire) -- Stacy Pearson keeps buying food she knows she'll never eat -- from tomato soup to green beans to ramen noodles -- merely because it's on sale. Why? Blame her mother. ...

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