Merv Mandelbaum 
Want to meet women? Who might even be interested in you? Volunteer at a soup kitchen. Or raise money for the United Way. Or at least shovel your neighbour’s sidewalk. Not only would that make you a good guy, you can actually meet someone. A study published in Social Psychological … Read More
If you’re in our demographic, we have an easy answer for you: seven to nine hours. Too much or too little sleep results in all kinds of bad things, like heart disease, stroke, diabetes, mental illness . . . well, you get the idea. And times when your sleep is … Read More
Time and time again, scientists have good things to say about moderate alcohol consumption. For example, it gives your immune system a boost. But there’s a downside to moderate drinking, at least in terms of health. A study published in Appetite has found that moderate drinking is linked with eating … Read More
This week, on NPR, neurologist Frances Jensen (author of The Teenage Brain) gave us a phrase we suspect we’ll be seeing a lot more of: dementia of the preoccupied. It’s not a real disorder, but it’s what Jensen calls the frazzled confusion most of us feel day-to-day as a result … Read More
Can’t stand the sheer amount things available to you? Yeah, that’s why we hate shopping for a mobile plan. You aren’t alone. In fact, a recent study in the Review of Economics and Statistics found that too much choice mainly helped people make a bad choice. Researchers set up an … Read More
