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  A  study reveals that an astonishing number of fathers – 13% – experience depressive symptoms during their partner’s pregnancy . Astonishing because I had imagined it would be considerably higher. Very little research has...

  Guillermo’s family home sat on a hill in San Salvador. The houses there stood crowded, stacked one upon another with rusted metal roofs, and some nights Guillermo could stand atop the hill and look across the valley of dark buildings to...

  Early on a Wednesday morning, I heard an anguished cry—then silence. I rushed into the bedroom and watched my wife, Rachel, stumble from the bathroom, doubled over, hugging herself in pain. “Something’s wrong,” she...

  "My name is Fernando M and I currently attend Hanna Boys Center in Sonoma, California. Before coming here I was labeled a troubled young man.   I came from a bad neighborhood in Los Angeles. I never had a stable household because my mom...

  I grew up around the corner from Walter Reed Army Medical Center, in Washington, D.C., which housed the small but remarkable National Museum of Health and Medicine. The musty place hosted a steady rotation of surreal exhibits—conjoined...

  In his quiet, modest way, Glenn was proud of his robot. It was 1974, at a local high school science fair in Boca Raton, Florida, and Glenn, a 15-year-old sophomore, had spent months painstakingly constructing a jumble of wires and circuits...

Near the end of the school day Wednesday, students at the Tuolumne Learning Center played guitars, talked among themselves and asked polite and curious questions to a class visitor. Laptop computers were closed on their desks and books were neatly put...

  When a young Kurdish man hosted in a temporary reception center in Milan started swiping through some pictures on his phone, one of the center's staff members was shocked by what he saw. An image of a man hanging by his neck appeared on the...

  With a tremendous amount of fanfare five years ago, Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg announced a $100 million donation to the Newark school district on the Oprah Winfrey Show with the Big Hairy Audacious Goal of fixing the public school system...

Reminders of death  tend to inspire  specific—and predictable—thoughts and feelings.   Previous research has shown that, when faced with our own mortality, most of us cling tight to the affiliations that give our lives...

It was honor that brought me to my hometown Jr High School. And it was on the steps of my old high school that shame and honor crossed paths. To be continued...

  A Yale researcher has launched an online resource for would-be mass shooters—prompted by his own brush with the impulse to kill. As a teenager seeking revenge, he once came close to murder. Now this Yale researcher wants to target...