Psychology Today

Can we stop acting as if not dying is an option? Listen carefully, and you'll hear people say things like, "If I die, I want it to be painless." If? There is no "if" about it.

Did "24"prime Americans to accept torture as a necessary evil?

Torturing people is nothing new for America.

When did it become racist to mention race?

Some of the things I've been doing in lieu of blogging.

Love for your spouse, no matter how profound and sincere, will probably not eliminate your innate yearning for erotic novelty.

The controversy over the killing of a giraffe in a Danish zoo illustrates American culture's dysfunctional approach to life and death.

Carl Zimmer is one of the world's most respected science journalists and a regular science columnist at The New York Times. So you expect him to get it right when he writes about human sexual evolution. The ways he keeps getting it wrong offer fascinating insight into just how difficult it can be to move beyond mainstream thinking when it comes to human sexual evolution.

Two hundred years ago, upper-class Americans and Brits placed the Irish beneath Africans on the chart of human racial development. So maybe I'm not white, after all; I'm Irish.

Poor, pathetic Johnny Depp. He's not attracted to his 27 year-old girlfriend because she's interesting, smart, has a great sense of humor, and is smoking hot. He's into her because she's powerless and he's intimidated by the less "malleable" women of his own age.

Some recent adventures in media

An update on various goings-on.