Is Facebook More Addictive Than Cigarettes?

An article on Vice starts with an intriguing question:

You know the feeling. A sort of internal itch … Wouldn't it be nice to see what my friends ...

Study Reveals Whom Children Really Trust

In a new study published in Computers in Human Behavior, a team evaluated 118 children aged three to six and found that overall, kids were more inclined ...

The Quest to Get Rid of Gray Hair

Humans have been trying to chase away gray hair for millennia. Clay tablets from the Assyrian Empire dated to the 7th Century B.C. mention using the gall ...

Is Your Child’s Phone a Problem?

Jonathan Haidt is a social psychologist who believes that your child’s smartphone is a threat to mental well-being. His book, The Anxious Generation: ...

The First Church of Artificial Intelligence

Anthony Levandowski makes an unlikely prophet. Dressed in Silicon Valley-casual jeans, the engineer known for self-driving cars, is laying the foundations ...

Mom’s Dilemma: Healthy Food but Unhealthy Porn

Columnist Peggy Noonan wrote a sobering article based on the work of researcher Jonathan Haidt’s new book The Anxious Generation: How the Great ...

The Great Rewiring of Childhood

Jonathan Haidt is a social psychologist who believes that your child’s smartphone is a threat to mental well-being. His new book, The Anxious Generation: ...

The Curse of Being Over-Connected

Sociologist Dalton Conley shares a story about backpacking through Europe when he was 18. He writes, “I had no iPhone. ... I couldn't Google. ...

TikTok Viral ‘Bank Glitch’ Debunked as Fraud

Chase Bank is warning its customers against a new viral trend that has emerged on TikTok and X, involving a supposed system “glitch” that ...

Americans Desperate to Avoid Gray Hair

One-third of U.S. adults said they would probably or definitely take a drug to prevent or reverse graying if such a medication were approved, according ...