PURETICS...

Everyone desires to reach a stage of absolute happiness where he is all the time happy. This is defined as a state of NIRVANA which supposed...

Dallas: A high school principal and his security staff shut feuding students in a steel cage to settle disputes with bare-knuckle fistfights...

The critics of modernity, going back at least to the 19th century, have told us that modern society is hurtling forward, its social ties unr...

2Blowhards: Julian Jaynes -- thoughts? Reactions? And what about that "bicameral mind" idea? Gregory Cochran: I read Jaynes' b...

Every citizen should be made to understand that offence is the best form of defense. A terrorist carrying a weapon will use it to bring maxi...

WHILE many institutions collapsed during the Great Depression that began in 1929, one kind did rather well. During this leanest of times, th...

Unusual blog...

I cry when I’m happy, I cry when I’m sad, I may cry when I’m sharing something that’s of great significance to me,” said Nancy Reiley, 62, w...

It’s always been a mystery to me that why someone makes it in life and someone does not. It is not as simple as having talent or luck. I thi...

First.... “Today, I say to you that the challenges we face are real,” Mr. Obama said in the address, delivered from the west front of the Ca...

Like wall-hugging geckos, tree frogs are capable of gravity-defying feats of the feet. But new research shows that the two species cling to ...

Happiness is contagious, spreading among friends, neighbors, siblings and spouses like the flu, according to a large study that for the firs...