You Are Also What You Drink
What worries you most? Decaying teeth, thinning bones, heart disease, stroke, diabetes, dementia, cancer, obesity? Whatever tops your list, you may be surprised to know that all of these health problems are linked to the beverages you drink — or don’t drink.

Many Paisley Supporters Back Joint Ulster Government
Protestants and Catholics to form joing government in Northern Ireland, an historic feat after 40 troubled years.

Compassionate Commercialism
What happens to us when greed masquerades as need, when cries for help become casting calls for chumps, when our most noble actions make us patsies?

Will Diners Still Swallow This?
The strategy of serving consumers smaller, healthier servings has a lamentably unprofitable history. But a few chains are trying gain.

Scientist Finds the Beginnings of Morality in Primate Behavior
Many philosophers find it hard to think of animals as moral beings, and indeed Dr. Frans de Waal does not contend that even chimpanzees possess morality. But he argues that human morality would be impossible without certain emotional building blocks that are clearly at work in chimp and monkey societies.

Call for Speed Limit Has German Blood at 178 m.p.h. Boil
Rule-bound and risk-averse in so many other ways, Germans regard driving on the autobahn at face-peeling speeds as close to an inalienable right.

Behavior May Suggest We're Not Only Human
Beliefs about the uniqueness of human behavior might well be the last bastion of our superiority complex, but research by de Waal and many others suggests that even this redoubt may be crumbling.

English, Irish, Scots: They’re All One, Genes Suggest
Geneticists who have tested DNA throughout the British Isles are struck by overall genetic similarities, leading some to claim that both Britain and Ireland have been inhabited for thousands of years by a single people that have remained in the majority, with only minor additions from later invaders like Celts, Romans, Angles , Saxons, Vikings and Normans.

Darwin’s God
Are we hard-wired to believe in God? And if we are, how and why did that happen?