Merv Mandelbaum 
As you may have guessed by some (or a lot of) our content, we really, really like meat. Sadly, an awful lot of our current meat production isn’t very green: industrial meat farming can use up a lot of water and other resources, making it inefficient. Happily, a new study … Read More
Despite what Ayn Rand devotees think (or assume, because “think” is a bit of a strong word for Objectivism), empathy plays and important role in our society—in the sense that without empathy, we probably wouldn’t have a society at all. However, empathy has an egocentric factor too, in that our … Read More
It isn’t the pressure you’re under, the amount of work you have yet to finish, or even your idiot co-worker who’s always quipping “that’s what she said!” that’s making you depressed. Granted those things don’t help, especially your co-worker with dumb jokes (ahem, Joel from accounting!). The thing that’s really … Read More
We write about sleep a lot here at DailyXY (see here, and here, and here, and here, and here), but that’s mainly because sleep has attracted a lot of scientific attention recently. Scientifically speaking, it’s weird that mammals sleep. It makes us vulnerable, we don’t need it to regular our … Read More
Be sure you’re sitting down for this: according to a new study published in Genome Biology, a woman’s breasts age faster than the rest of her. Actually, the study had to do with aging in tissues throughout the entire human body, and particularly with developing an algorithm involving methylated tissues … Read More
