Why do some people attract cruelty while others seem to move through life untouched by it? Researchers who study aggression and social dynamics have spent decades trying to understand what makes someone a target. The answers aren’t always comfortable to hear because they often involve traits we consider our best. Mean people don’t target others...
Dozens of major cities around the world face a future underwater. Rising seas and sinking land threaten to push coastlines inland, flooding neighborhoods that millions of people call home. Climate Central, a nonprofit research organization, has mapped these cities at risk using data from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s 6th Assessment Report, completed in...
Americans are on the move, and the places they’re leaving behind are starting to feel it. Schools are losing students, tax bases are shrinking, and some neighborhoods have more for-sale signs than block parties. It’s a trend that keeps repeating, and certain states land on the losing end year after year. The reasons aren’t hard...
Amanda Seyfried has never been one to shy away from speaking her mind, and her recent comments about socialism have put her back in the political spotlight. The actress appeared on Variety’s Award Circuit podcast on December 12, 2025, where she called socialism a “gorgeous idea” and defined it as “taking care of each other.”...
Michael Virgil was 35 years old when he boarded Royal Caribbean’s Navigator of the Seas on the morning of December 13, 2024. The Moreno Valley, California resident brought his fiancée, Connie Aguilar, their 7-year-old son, and other family members for a four-day trip to Ensenada, Mexico. The ship left the Port of San Pedro around...
The check arrives, and the table looks like a small disaster. Plates smeared with sauce, napkins crumpled into balls, glasses with nothing left but melting ice. Some of us stand up and leave without a second glance, but psychology researchers have spent years studying why others feel that automatic pull toward helping. Neither response is...
The American Medical Association has been sounding alarms about cannabis health risks, and one of the physicians leading that effort is Dr. Michael Suk. As co-chair of the AMA Cannabis Task Force, Dr. Suk has spent the past year educating doctors about the ways cannabis affects the body. One condition the task force wants physicians...
Editor’s Note (Update, December 19, 2025):In the last 24 hours, President Donald Trump signed an executive order directing federal agencies to advance the reclassification of marijuana from a Schedule I to a Schedule III controlled substance, as reported by the BBC and other major outlets. This article was initially published in September 2025. The headline...
Some people feel genuinely happier at home than anywhere else, and psychological research now offers clear explanations for why. The preference for staying in goes beyond introversion or shyness. It involves how individual brains process social interaction, how much mental energy different environments demand, and what kinds of rest actually restore a person’s capacity to...
President Trump’s tariffs on imported goods forced many companies to make a difficult choice this year. They could absorb the extra costs and watch their profits shrink, or they could pass those costs along to shoppers. Most chose the latter. Tariffs work like a tax on imports, and while the government collects the money from...
Dick Van Dyke turns 100 on December 13, and he still goes to the gym three times a week. The man who danced across rooftops in Mary Poppins and charmed audiences in Chitty Chitty Bang Bang has outlived most of his generation, and he thinks he knows why. In recent interviews and a new book...
The landscape of human sexuality keeps expanding as people find new ways to describe their experiences of attraction. Berrisexuality is one of the newer terms gaining visibility, a microlabel for people who felt that bisexual or pansexual didn’t quite capture what they were feeling. It offers something more specific for those who feel drawn to...
