Merv Mandelbaum 
Intelligent people are more likely to be trusting and people who score lower on measures of intelligence tend to be more suspicious, according to a new study published in PLOS One. Researchers used subjects from the General Social Survey, a massive national US survey issued every one or two years … Read More
Viagra may have changed everything fifteen years ago, but there’s some good news if you don’t like the idea of relying on a little blue pill: you might not need it. According to a study published in the Journal of Sexual Medicine, you might be able to cure your ED … Read More
Don’t like BMI as a measure of health? You aren’t alone. It’s dated, nonsensical, and wasn’t even designed to measure an individual’s personal health—it was designed for measuring the level of obesity in entire populations. Anyway, researchers at the Mayo Clinic found a better measure of poor health: waist size. … Read More
Want to make it to middle age with the memory, problem solving skills, and general mental acuity you’ve enjoyed in your youth? Go for a run. Regularly. A study published in Neurology has found that people who exercised regularly in their twenties enjoyed better cognitive function in their forties compared … Read More
So, you graduated around 2008, you’re managed to avoid the fate of the long-term unemployed, but you’re probably nowhere near owning your own home, paying off your student loans, and your grandpa won’t shut the hell up at Thanksgiving. So what’s the silver lining? Well, you’ll probably be happier in … Read More
