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Top 25 List: December 2012

The Top Posts of 2012

The posts that caught fire this year shed light on love, autism, introversion, creativity, and more.

Explaining the Unexplainable

Is there anything to ghosts, ESP, mediums, and other spooky stuff?

Sunny D

Vitamin D repels ills, from heart disease to cancer, not to mention depression.

A Season of Meaning

Finding comfort in holiday rituals.

The Impact of Gratitude

The health benefits of feeling grateful for your blessings.

The Science of Gift-Giving

The nuanced exchange of holiday gift-giving.

Highlights: December 16-22

The End of the World

Doomsday is right around the corner. Or is it?

Slave to a Material World

Hold onto your pocketbook, here come the holiday sales.

Gender Math

Understanding performance differences on cognitive tasks.

When Doctors Need Doctoring

Why physicians deny their own need for care.

Scientific Double Takes

These quirky, counterintuitive research findings defy expectations.

Making Sense of Senseless Killing

Following a mass school shooting, we look to the past for clues and to trauma experts for solace.

What Makes a Psychopath

Lacking empathy or a conscience, they're expert manipulators.

The Power of Collaboration

Colleagues who are radically different, siblings who share your passion, and more.

The Education Fix

Herein lies a few remedies to the decline of education.

Ho Ho Hanukkah!

The joys and challenges of inter-faith relationships.

Change Your Nature

Your personality isn't necessarily set in stone.

Highlights: December 2-8

Parental resentment, data overload, talking hands, and more.