Horse breeder Lisa Diersen’s mission: Educate public on all things equine
A stallion twitches his nose and bats his long eyelashes for a visitor who has apples in her pockets. Four yearlings play tag to expend their adolescent energy. A pair...
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In the age of quick sexual hookups, health test results are catching up
In the smartphone age, when romantic hookups happen in a flash, the technology itself has been blamed for an increase in sexually transmitted diseases. In May, Utah and Rhode Island...
Chicago Scholars CEO empowers underserved teens with path to college
Dominique Jordan Turner was born to a teenage mother from a Chicago housing project, and she had peers who struggled to avoid the crime that plagued their neighborhood. But Turner...
New HPV vaccine may offer greater cancer protection
The latest generation of human papillomavirus vaccines, 9-valent, offers "potential" 11.1 percent greater protection against HPV-related cancers than does its predecessor, according to a study funded the U.S. Centers for...
Why love letters matter, even after you break up
"If I were Luke Skywalker, I would deny my destiny to rule the galaxy," the writer of this love letter proclaims, then goes on to promise his beloved to forgo...
Wedding guest list: Whom to invite, and why
Wedding planner Joyce Scardina Becker has a simple system for compiling wedding-guest lists. Divide people into three categories: yes, maybe and no. "'Yes' includes parents, grandparents, siblings, aunts, uncles, cousins,...
Keeping your brain healthy actually can be a fine art
Since she moved to Florida, said Mary O'Neill, 91, "painting keeps me happy and fills the empty frames" in her Port St. Lucie home. It also keeps mild cognitive impairment...
Hobbies and relationships: Bonds strengthen when pursuing pastime together
At an age when many girls shun their parents, Ardie Wood, 14, and her sister, Annie, 12, of Buhl, Idaho, make time to create stop-motion films with their mom, Chelly....
Does color affect what you buy?
Artists know intuitively that consumers perceive black/white imagery differently than they perceive color, according to psychologists who conducted an Ohio State University study. Now we know how this affects our...
It’s not psychology, it’s you: Stop blaming behavior on ‘disease,’ psychiatrist says
Modern psychology can do more harm than good, asserts retired psychiatrist Anthony Daniels (pen name: Theodore Dalrymple) in his book, "Admirable Evasions: How Psychology Undermines Morality." Instead of taking responsibility...