Michigan State University

Your Devices -- iPhone, Laptop, TV -- Are Making You Depressed

A recent Nielsen report found that about a third of us tweet while watching TV. Well, you might want to stop that. According to Michigan State University assistant psychology Professor Mark Becker, multitasking with modern media is bad for your mental health. It might be making you depressed:

Turkey Abuse: Watch The Animal Rights Video That Will Ruin Your Thanksgiving

Updated at the bottom with a statement from Butterball, which says the action caught on tape was under investigation. First posted at 12:03 p.m. Pretty soon animal rights activists will be decrying the suffering of corn -- all that slow grilling and hot butter. The humanity. For now, however, the ... More >>

Bookworms

White-nationalist reads in the United States and Europe reflect anti-migrant hatred in a grim economy

Weathermen’s Ticking Time Bomb

The investigation into a cop killing in the ’70s leads to a Chicago law professor involved in the early stages of Barack Obama’s political career

Best Hands-On Healing: One Healing's Jill Heinrich

Queer Town: Good Craziness in West Hollywood

At West Hollywood Park, across the street from the Pacific Design Center, Mayor Jeff Prang stood underneath the shade of a palm tree in a navy blue suit with a gold-and-blue striped tie. He had been talking to journalists from all over the world and needed to take a breather before the press confere ... More >>

The Caged Lion

Environmentalist Rod Coronado returns to prison a decade after his radical heyday

Navahoax

Did a struggling white writer of gay erotica become one of multicultural literature’s most celebrated memoirists — by passing himself off as Native American?

The Path of a Flower