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This isn’t health care. It’s fraud – and it is wide, and it is deep.” That was the charge leveled by Dr. Miriam Grossman at a ...

Due to the way society conditions women to be obedient, get along with others, and suffer in silence, women tend to ...

In the 1950s, Stanley Miller and Nobel laureate Harold Urey conducted experiments at the University of Chicago in which they ...

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Many cultures believe that the time of a child’s birth influences the kind of person they become. Are they right? A recent ...

Writer Olga Khazan, a lifelong introvert obsessed with work, was unhappy with who she was, and so vowed to redesign her personality by living outside her comfort zone – a journey she documented in her ...

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Childhood memories play a fundamental role in personality development. Certain defining moments, even simple ones, can have a ...