Based upon beer and liquor company advertising, you might imagine that the US booze industry primarily sells its products to suave, attractive 20-somethings on the beach. In fact, it primarily sells its products to alcoholics.
If you are the hopeful, "never say die" sort of person who consumes artificial sweeteners in your diet in order to lower your sugar intake, allow me to inform you that you may have been accomplishing the opposite of what you wanted, all this time. Burn.
A new study out of Baylor University finds that college students spend an "astounding" amount of time on their cell phones and has researchers warning of cell phone "addiction" (not in a jokey way).
Salt: good? Bad? Both! It will kill you no matter what you do.
The finding that women are more "averse" to volunteering themselves for the futile meat grinder of U.S. political elections would seem to confirm the theory that women think with their brains, while men don't.
Happiness: what is it? A new study has found the answer: it is a mathematical equation based on your own expectations. You are so very predictable, humans.
According to a newly released decades-long study of thousands of Americans found that people who qualify as heavy drinkers... well, it said something about them, I'm fairly sure of that.
Has your child had trouble at school? Have you tried tutoring, extra homework time, and everything else you can think of, with little improvement? Relax. According to the latest research, your kid's fate is already sealed.
Seattle, home to the highest minimum wage in America, legal weed, and as of yesterday, incarcerated female soccer player Hope Solo, has beat out over 200 other American cities as the most generous city in the country in a study that tracks online donations.
Bad news: Since 1764, the United States has had one fewer school shooting than the next 38 nations combined. Good news: That study only counted up to 2009, so we're probably the world's undisputed No. 1 now.
A new study published in Nature finds that for the past three decades, hurricanes and tropical cyclones have been gradually moving away from the equator and towards the poles. Hmm. *Checks current location* Fuck.
An estimated 55 percent of Americans believe they're smarter than the average American. No word on how many can define irony.
A new study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences uses statistical techniques to estimate that one in every 25 death row inmates in America would be exonerated, given enough time and attention.
A new study by researchers from Princeton and Northwestern Universities finds that America's government policies reflect the wishes of the rich and of powerful interest groups, rather than the wishes of the majority of citizens.
"The World Health Organization reports that suicide rates have increased 60 percent over the past 50 years, most strikingly in the developing world." Thank god for modern pharmacology.
Today the Urban Institute released an exciting report with a somewhat less-than-exciting title: "Estimating the Size and Structure of the Underground Commercial Sex Economy in Eight Major US Cities." And man, is it a fascinating read.
For years now, the suicide rate among U.S. veterans has been rising. It's not as simple as saying that combat deployments lead to suicide. According to major new research, the problem seems to be rooted much more broadly within the military.
Good news in the losing battle against America's obesity: a new report finds that, in the past decade, the obesity rate for kids aged two to five has plummeted by more than 40%. These toddlers are now the only Americans fit enough for military service.
Many elite colleges and universities make a real effort to recruit (some) students from low income backgrounds who went to relatively poor high schools. New data shows that's not enough to remedy the damage that bad high schools do.
