By DAVID BROOKS Published: March 6, 2011 NYT On this blog I’m hoping to cover the sorts of intellectual, cultural and scientific findings that I can’t get into my columns or in my conversations with my fellow columnist Gail Collins. http://brooks.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/03/06/hello/

By JOHN TIERNEY Published: February 7, 2011 NYT A social psychologist has argued that there is a hostile climate for non-liberals among his colleagues. http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/08/science/08tier.html

By SUSAN SAULNY NYT Published Jan 29, 2011 Many young adults of mixed backgrounds are rejecting color lines that have defined Americans for generations. http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/30/us/30mixed.html

By STACEY D’ERASMO in BOOKS NYT Published: January 7, 2011 This first novel “Annabel” by Kathleen Winter explores the emotional turmoil within the family of an intersex child. http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/09/books/review/DErasmo-t.html

NYT Published: December 30, 2010 By PAMELA PAUL But do they really care? http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/02/fashion/02studied.html

By DAVID BROOKS Published: December 6, 2010  NYT Humans are strange, complicated creatures. Just look at some of the recent reports on behavioral research. http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/07/opinion/07brooks.html

Documentary about being transgender and aging featuring the story of KrysAnne Hembrough, a transwoman struggling to find acceptance and community in the midst of battling a terminal illness.

By DEBORAH TANNEN Published: October 25, 2010 NYT The key to why having sisters makes people happier — men as well as women — may lie not in the kind of talk they exchange but in the fact of talk. http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/26/health/26essay.html

The ATLANTIC November 2010 By David H. Freedman MUCH OF WHAT MEDICAL RESEARCHERS CONCLUDE IN THEIR STUDIES IS MISLEADING, EXAGGERATED, OR FLAT-OUT WRONG. SO WHY ARE DOCTORS—TO A STRIKING EXTENT—STILL DRAWING UPON MISINFORMATION IN THEIR EVERYDAY PRACTICE? DR. JOHN IOANNIDIS HAS SPENT HIS CAREER CHALLENGING HIS PEERS BY EXPOSING THEIR BAD SCIENCE. http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2010/11/lies-damned-lies-and-medical-science/8269/