By GUY DEUTSCHER Published: August 26, 2010 NYT Magazine The idea that your mother tongue shapes your experience of the world may be true after all. http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/29/magazine/29language-t.html

By Nick Powdthavee and Carl Wilkinson Published: August 28 2010 00:23 |in Financial Times Many of us struggle to find real happiness. Why is that? Studies in psychology suggest that part of the reason is that most of us are very bad at predicting how we’ll react when faced with many of life’s experiences. Consequently, we […]

by Barbara Kantrowitz and Pat Wingert Newsweek  August 16, 2010 A small but growing number of people are rejecting being labeled male or female. http://www.newsweek.com/2010/08/16/life-without-gender.html

A prenatal pill for congenital adrenal hyperplasia to prevent ambiguous genitalia may reduce the chance that a female with the disorder will be gay. Critics call it engineering for sexual orientation. By Shari Roan, Los Angeles Times August 15, 2010 http://www.latimes.com/news/science/la-sci-adrenal-20100815,0,5576220.story

By DAVID BROOKS Published: July 22, 2010 NYT Scientific research is showing that we are born with an innate moral sense. http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/23/opinion/23brooks.html

Vancouver psychologist trains therapists in some of the globe’s most troubled places BY DARAH HANSEN, VANCOUVER SUN JULY 17, 2010 4:06 AM http://www.vancouversun.com/Easing+suffering+world/3290760/story.html

By RICHARD A. FRIEDMAN, M.D. Published: July 12, 2010  NYT We marvel at the resilient child who survives the most toxic parents, yet the converse — the notion that some children might be the bad seeds of more or less decent parents — is hard to take. http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/13/health/13mind.html

By DAVID BROOKS Published: July 8, 2010  NYT The Internet culture has yet to incorporate the literary culture of traditional bookish learning. http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/09/opinion/09brooks.html

Newsweek  July 2, 2010 The controversy over using female hormones as part of prenatal care isn’t quite as shocking as the headlines suggest, but it does raise important questions about ethics, gender, and sexuality. http://www.newsweek.com/2010/07/02/the-anti-lesbian-drug.html

By AMY HARMON Published: July 4, 2010  NYT After years of effort to coax empathy from smart machines, robots and devices designed to soothe, support and keep us company are venturing out of the laboratory. http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/05/science/05robot.html