What if a medical test was available that could predict your future? What if you could know with absolute certainty that a decade from now you would be diagnosed with a serious disease? Would you take this test?

Logic would dictate that the answer would be yes. Why not?...

It's easy to get caught up in the frenzy of praising the accomplishments of Steve Jobs since his death. In fact, it's virtually impossible to overstate his importance. His is the first face on technology's Mount Rushmore. With a computer chip in hand, he was Jordan with the ball, Baryshnikov...

Ever since Governor Chris Christie put his toes into the presidential waters, the issue of his "heft" has moved front and center. The New York Times Sunday Review put this story on its cover, so you know the story is big (no pun intended).

Gov. Christie's weight clearly is...

It's Friday afternoon, and I'm finished for the week. It's time to pick up my daughter at her school located on East 76th Street and the East River. School lets out at 1:00 p.m., so I should be there on time. All I have to do is hop in a...

Who knew that LeBron James, the most physically gifted athlete of his generation, would become the poster child for schadenfreude? Having taken narcissism to heights that make Donald Trump seem modest, LeBron managed to generate the kind of vitriol never before seen in the history of sport. When the Heat...

By now everyone has heard about Gaby Rodriguez, the 17-year-old high school student who faked a pregnancy in order to chronicle what it's like to become stigmatized. Her goal was to document, in detail, how a pregnant teen would be treated by her peers and others in the community. The...

When we think about knowledge, we imagine a large number of facts, discoveries or understandings that increases in size with the passage of time. For instance, over the past century medicine has developed antibiotics, vaccinations and a host of technologies that keep us alive and well. Physics now includes black...

We all accept the validity of the unconscious mind. Unlike other concepts, however, we accept it on belief alone since, by definition, it's outside of awareness.

But there's a form of mental activity that falls between conscious and unconscious processing that offers a glimpse of how the unconscious works....

With the New Year upon us -- and the weight-loss resolutions that typically follow -- it's time to take a closer look at the most common root cause of obesity: problem eating. It is often said that the first step to recovery is admitting you have a problem. Nowhere is...

If asked what the word average means, most people would probably define it as not being particularly good or bad. Others might say it means not standing out in any way. Really good or really bad pops out dramatically -- think of the lists of the year's best or worst...

As you begin listening to the sound of my voice...you will find yourself becoming comfortable... more comfortable than you've ever been before... and as this comfort increases... perhaps you will find your mind drifting off to a special place... a safe place... a place where you can begin to...