Restoring Dignity

Rochelle Courtenay had never wondered what homeless women do when they get their period. Her life changed when she read an article explaining how women who couldn't afford sanitary products were forced to employ makeshift solutions such as rolled-up toilet paper, newspapers and even socks. 'I

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When You Need To Cut A Parent Out Of Your Life

Dear Sugar Radio is a podcast offering 'radical empathy' and advice for the lost, lonely and heartsick. Today the hosts hear from people who have estranged themselves from their parents. (Image credit: Courtesy of WBUR)

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5 Things Every Woman Should Know About Trump's Budget

Thisarticle originally appeared on Fortune.com. On Tuesday, the Trump administration released a more detailed version of his proposed budget plan. The White House calls it a 'Taxpayer First' budget, meaning that it focuses on reducing federal spending, largely by cutting social safety net

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Stop Bleeding in 10 Seconds with This Common Spice

If you are a parent of small children, you surely often find yourself in a situation to find a way and quickly stop the bleeding of their cuts. Well, cayenne pepper is the most effective method to stop the bleeding of an open wound, and it even works in the case of deep cuts. eHow...

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Data sharing can offer help in science's reproducibility crisis

Criticism that researchers in the psychological and brain sciences are failing to reproduce studies -- a key step in the scientific method -- may have more to do with the complexity of managing data, rather than an attempt to hide methods and results, according to researchers.

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Skin cancer on the rise

New diagnoses for two types of skin cancer increased in recent years, according to a team of researchers. Their paper uses medical records from the Rochester Epidemiology Project to compare diagnoses of basal cell carcinoma and squamous cell carcinoma ? both nonmelanoma skin cancers ? between

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Ongoing natural selection against damaging genetic mutations in humans

Investigators report that, as a species, humans are able to keep the accumulation of damaging mutations in check because each additional mutation that's added to a genome causes larger, and larger consequences, decreasing an individual's ability to pass on genetic material.

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15 Signs That You Are Emotionally Intelligent

When emotional intelligence (EQ) first appeared to the masses, it served as the missing link in a peculiar finding: People with average IQs outperform those with the highest IQs 70 percent of the time. This anomaly threw a massive wrench into the broadly held assumption that IQ was the sole

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Santa Fe Sugary Drink Tax Loss Ends a Streak of Seven Soda Tax Wins

Santa Fe voters have rejected a 2 cent-per-ounce tax on sugary drinks that would have raised nearly $8 million for expanded pre-K. The tax was proposed and spearheaded by Santa Fe's Mayor Javier Gonzales, placed onto the ballot by the City Council and supported by thousands of voters who wanted

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Celebrity Chef Tom Colicchio: 'We Can End Hunger In This Country'

TheTop Chef judge, restaurateur and hunger advocate says many of our nation's problems are related to food, and one the biggest ways to address this is to make meals more nutritious and accessible. (Image credit: Tasos Katopodis/Getty Images for Food Policy Act)

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