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Sign Language is a grammarless series of bluntly defined iconic hand gestures. Until William Stokoe (1919-2000) published his...

"Well Dale, we, the universe, hate to break it to you, but your desk is on fire, your copy of Thor 337 was lost in the mail, you've been...

You’re a monkey, and somebody in a white lab coat has shown you a location where a delicious, ever-so-nummy, bit of banana has been...

Color is among the most familiar of our sensations, and at the same time also one of the most foreign. Whereas any child can tell you...

“There was a tunnel, and at the end a beautiful light, and I heard the voices of my family calling to me.” For centuries this, the...

Humans have been building structures out of ceramic brick for five thousand years, and for four thousand nine hundred of those years the...

Separate But Equal. Of all America's variously Orwellian brandings, few have wrought as much human suffering as those three words. It is...

There are scales and metrics you use to evaluate the lives of most neuropsychologists, and then there are those you have to invent in...

We tend to think of babies as, psychologically, relatively uncomplicated creatures. They are happy when clean, warm, and fed, and angry...

To many, Virginia Satir was an instinctive therapeutic genius, whose invention of family therapy has instructed untold millions of...

Helene Deutsch (1884-1982) was a fantastically successful clinical psychiatrist and psychoanalyst who felt guilty about nothing quite so...

What do you do with a gifted child? A child who learns new concepts three or four times faster than his contemporaries, often withdraws...

Do Not Interact With Men Easily Do Not Dance Go to Church Every Sunday Spend Money From Home Wisely Do Not Become as Aggressive as an...

It is 1942, and Allied bombs are raking the city of Turin, wreaking a thudding vengeance for Il Duce’s cynical alliance with Nazi Germany....

In 1955, if you were a man who suffered from premature ejaculation, or a woman who had never known an orgasm, your choices were few and...

For the last thirty-two years of her life, Naomi Weisstein (1939-2015), the mercurial spirit who was simultaneously a cognitive...

The brain is ready. It luxuriated in a solution of potassium bicarbonate for a year, and then in a thick mixture of nitrocellulose for...