You Can Inherit Loneliness

By Melissa Dahl Loneliness is an emotion that doesn’t always make a lot of sense. Two people may have very similar social lives, and yet one might feel isolated more often than the other — even when surrounded by people they know and love, who know and love them...

Did Jesus Die of a Broken Heart?

Here’s some psychological, biblical and historical evidence to provide some support that Jesus died from the “broken heart syndrome” (technically a psychosomatic phenomena called “stress-induced cardiomyopathy“).Psychological StudiesOlder couples that have...

Tongues on the Mind

By Constance Holden​For a practice that’s been around for thousands of years, scientists understand very little about what goes on when people “speak in tongues.” Currently, glossolalia–as it’s called–can be found in...