We know a lot about what makes Americans satisfied with their personal lives, jobs and careers, but much less about what make them satisfied with the places where they live. I’ve long argued that choosing the place where we live is the...
On August 29, the Department of Veterans Affairs' National Center for Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) celebrated its 25th anniversary. For the past 25 years, the Center has been the leader in research and education helping those who are...
Sure, exercise is good for your body, but did you ever think about how it could boost your mood? Happify , a website dedicated to helping people build skills for happiness through science-based activities and games, put together an infographic...
Women who have the largest number of post-traumatic stress disorder symptoms are almost three times more likely to develop an addiction to food, a new study suggests. The findings don't prove a direct link between PTSD and women overeating or...
A groundbreaking study from the Frank Porter Graham Child Development Institute has found that African-American students in first grade experience smaller gains in reading when they attend segregated schools—but the students’ backgrounds...
By Steve LePore Founder and Executive Director of 1in6, Inc. I was encouraged this week by the National Football League’s appointment of an expert panel to help "lead and shape the NFL’s policies and programs...
On Aug. 11, 2013, Donald Telfair says, he was brutally assaulted by three men who thought he had robbed them earlier that evening. The 46-year-old spent the night at a hospital in Suffolk County, New York, where doctors had to wire his broken...
Following the news that Minnesota Vikings running back Adrian Peterson reportedly used a tree branch to hit his 4-year-old son (and the later accusation that he injured another 4-year-old son), the acceptability of physical punishment has been...
One is becoming as well-known for her autobiographical work as she is for her test for what movies meet a gender-balance baseline. Another directed one of the best-reviewed and most surreal documentaries of the past decade and has a...
Physicist Danielle Bassett has been awarded a MacArthur Fellowship based on her work studying the human brain. She talks with Melissa Block about the advances it may lead to. The complexity of the human brain has long fascinated Danielle...
When The Mountain Goats' founder John Darnielle was a teenager, he went through a self-destructive phase. "Your intelligence doesn't override your desire to destroy yourself," Darnielle tells Fresh Air's Terry Gross. "I really, really did not...
According to reports about the Adrian Peterson felony abuse indictment, Peterson’s 4-year-old son pushed another of Peterson’s sons off a video game. Peterson then retrieved a tree branch — called a “switch” —...
My phone pinged. I knew instantly what the alert was, because the heading is always the same. I had signed up for a criminal notification system to keep tabs on the man I called my father. “This email is to inform you that the offender...
The indictment last week of the N.F.L. player Adrian Peterson by a Texas grand jury for reckless or negligent injury to a child has set into relief the harmful disciplinary practices of some black families. Mr. Peterson used a...
African-American elementary students in California were chronically truant at nearly four times the rate of all students during the last school year, according to a state report released Friday, that said poverty and suspensions were...