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Aesthetic images can induce staggering changes to the body, including radical reductions in the observer’s stress levels.

It’s time to give the violent metaphors of evolution a break. For those most invested in the old-school Darwinian view of the survival of the fittest and violence as virtue, then, the message is clear: Just relax.

Staying silent is to be complicit in perpetrating injustice

This study isn’t the only one to show the positive impacts of sugary beverage taxes. This study on Berkeley’s soda tax found a whopping 21 percent decrease in sugary beverage consumption. At Harvard, researchers predicted that Philadelphia’s sugary beverage tax, which went into effect this year, could prevent 36,000 cases of obesity over 10 years, prevent more than 2,000 cases of diabetes in the first year after the tax reaches its full effect, and save $200 million.

A gold-standard clinical trial provides evidence that diet, exercise and an active social life can help prevent cognitive decline

Top women in mathematics and physics discuss how they got to where they are — and why there aren’t more of them.

Analysis paints picture of diets, medicine and possible intimacy with modern humans.

Traditionally state vaccination policy and school vaccine mandates have been as close to a nonpartisan issue as we have in this country. There has usually been broad bipartisan support for such mandates and the idea that children should be vaccinated in order to attend school. It’s a consensus that has served the country well for many decades now. What I fear is that this consensus is breaking down, and—even worse—school vaccine policies are becoming a partisan issue.

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