Moore Lowdown
Your Brain on Video Games: Surveying the Available Evidence
Video games are big business, so there's plenty of incentive for saying they're good for you. But a comprehensive survey of over 100 studies shows that gaming is a decidedly mixed bag.
Celebrity Health
Think Before You Spit
Do you really understand what you’re getting yourself into when you send in your sample? Probably not
Moore Lowdown
Changing Our Names to Change the Patriarchy
The tradition of women and children taking men's surnames is sexism pure and simple. But in several states there's a law on the books to efface it.
Best Medicine
Kratom: Jekyll or Hyde?
Have you heard of the latest legal drug craze to hit a gas station near you? It’s called Kratom, and unlike bath salts, Spice or any of the synthetic, formerly ”legal” drugs on the DEA hit list, this one is entirely organic - David DiSalvo
Moore Lowdown
Play as a Way to Ameliorate Poverty
The benefits children get from play are incalculable, yet the children who may need it most tend to get the least of it.
Moore Lowdown
Proposition 47: Legal Aid for Turning Over a New Leaf
An unprecedented experiment in mass forgiveness giving some felons a chance to rewrite their past so that they -- and perhaps society-- have a better shot at a brighter future.
Moore Lowdown
Pay-to-Stay Jails Another Symptom of the Sickness of Financial Inequality
A guy walks in to behind bars. It's a nicer jail than it would have been otherwise because he can afford it. It's no joke: "pay-to-stay" is unequal justice by design.
Best Medicine
Thank God for Medicare
Considering I was born in the 6th month of the 49th year of the last century, you might say I had just won the jackpot in cancer’s Blotto 649
Moore Lowdown
Postpartum Depression in Men? New Research Says Yes
For millennia we have seen links between childbirth and depression. But a new study suggesting that fathers can also be susceptible make help take our understanding of the condition beyond the biological.
Moore Lowdown
The Pros and Cons of the Probiotics Trend
Probiotics are here, and they're spreading across the country. But they've always been here. The only question is whether we should follow the hype and go out of your way to get more of them.
