27 Jan 2011  | 7 PM

Ed. Note: Today's Ypulse Youth Advisory Board review comes from Robbie Wanamaker, a college student who made it out to theaters to see R-rated romantic comedy "No Strings Attached." What made him dig up the cash (err… holiday gift certificate) and convince fellow guy friends to take the plunge? I'll let Robbie explain. Remember, to contact our Youth Advisory Board directly, just email them at youthadvisoryboard at ypulse.com… or leave a comment below. YAB Review: 'No Strings Attached' What was the biggest draw? I may be in the minority here, but… I’m a guy who likes romantic comedies. ...

31 Mar 2012  | 9 PM

Two years ago in Her Times, I shared my story about overcoming a sudden fear of highway driving by working with a professional who specializes in anxiety disorders. I wrote about the professional's technique to "face it and feel it" and how this

31 Mar 2012  | 12:12 AM

Stealing is not a crime — at least when you’re stealing ideas from a variety of artists. That’s the basis of Austin Kleon’s book Steal Like An Artist: 10 Things Nobody Told You About Being Creative. (A premise that he, of course, stole from other artists.) In the book, Kleon shares unique insights on cultivating creativity. Specifically, he presents the below 10 tips, which he created for a talk at a community college. They represent the things he wished he would’ve known when starting out. Steal like an artist. Don’t wait until you know who you are to get started. Write the book ...

03 Mar 2011  | 1 PM

[For more, visit the Communication Insight Center.] Hollywood stars, media mavens and America's most influential businessmen and politicians: that's the crowd at the annual White House Correspondents Association dinner. That night in 2006 newly appointed Federal Reserve chief Ben Bernanke mingled with CNBC anchor Maria Bartiromo, who asked about his recent congressional testimony, which had sent stock markets soaring. He told her he'd been misinterpreted, she reported the comments, and the markets plummeted, prompting a hail of criticism. Every senior leader, in politics or in ...

10 Feb 2011  | 5 PM

Someone hacked the Levi’s website…or so we thought. But no, the storied denim brand really is selling extra super skinny jeans for guys that they’re calling the “ex-girlfriend” fit. That’s just one of three new styles, the others being the “skinny carpenter” and the “520 taper” that narrows to a skinny ankle. Levi’s peddling skinny jeans to boys is no big deal — they’ve been doing it for years — but calling the latest style the “ex-girlfriend” fit gives the trend a new twist. Across the retail aisle, girls have embraced comfy “boyfriend” sweaters, shirts, pants, and jeans. Since the days of ...

30 Mar 2012  | 11:05 AM

There has been a growing trend in research in the field of positive psychology that is looking at the health benefits of adult play. Play can engage that sense of flow, where your abilities meet the challenge of the task and cultivate positive

31 Mar 2012  | 1 PM

Several months ago, Sam Behseta, the new editor of Chance magazine, asked me if I’d like to have a column. I said yes, I’d like to write on ethics and statistics. My first column was called “Open Data and Open Methods” and I discussed the ethical obligation to share data and make our computations transparent wherever possible. In my column, I recounted a story from a bit over 20 years ago when I noticed a problem in a published analysis (involving electromagnetic fields and calcium flow in chicken brains) and contacted the researcher in charge of the study, who ...

29 Mar 2012  | 1 PM

Schoolteachers who underwent a short but intensive program of meditation were less depressed, anxious or stressed -- and more compassionate and aware of others' feelings, according to a UCSF-led study that blended ancient meditation practices with the most current scientific methods for regulating emotions. read

01 Apr 2012  | 02:00 AM

Join a panel of scientists, scholars and public intellectuals, including primatologist Frans de Waal, international economic advisor and Earth Institute Director Jeffrey Sachs, experimental social psychologist Steven Neuberg, cognitive neuroscientist Rebecca Saxe, physicist and mathematician Freeman Dyson and New York Times editorialist Charles Blow , as they discuss the biological and social dimensions of the timely issue of xenophobia, or the unreasonable fear of "others." [More] ...

31 Mar 2012  | 05:13 AM

"The past 30 years have seen big changes in our society, and we are able to find some causes of depression in the social mechanism and the increased social pressure. "Faith and value are an essential psychological factor, yet psychologists don't pay enough