A project called How is the world feeling? is aiming to use an iOS and Android app to conduct the world’s largest study of mental health over a one-week period starting on October 10. The aim is to gather data from ordinary people to identify patterns in emotions, then to open-source anonymized data…

This post originally appeared at Common Dreams . RELATED: Democracy & Government Ballot Initiatives, Explained BY Gail Ablow | July 18, 2016 This election cycle, corporate donors are not just beefing up the war chests of their most-favored politicians. According to a new study, industry is flexing…

YU HUI, a boisterous four-year-old living in Shanghai, is what marketing people call a digital native. Over a year ago, she started communicating with her parents using WeChat, a Chinese mobile-messaging service. She is too young to carry around a mobile phone. Instead she uses a Mon Mon, an…

(ATTN: ADDS defense ministry's remarks at bottom) SEOUL, Oct. 1 (Yonhap) -- South Korea's cyber command established to counter external hacking attempts on the country's military was found to have been hacked last month, a lawmaker said Saturday, raising speculation that North Korea might be behind…

I am writing to share a story with you, specifically for you. My hope is that it will help you understand your patients along with their spouses and caregivers a little more. And as for the research you do, perhaps this will add a few more faces behind the why you do what you do. I am sure there are…

Have some of Column A. Try all of Column B! Photographer: Greg Baker/AFP/Getty Images Photographer: Greg Baker/AFP/Getty Images Marriage counselors tell us that couples frequently tie the knot without discussing the core matters that can cement or sunder their marriage: finances, children, religion.…

How much rest do we think we need, who is getting the most, and what are the most restful activities? The results of the world's largest survey on rest indicate that to feel truly rested, a lot of us want to be alone. Last November an online survey called The Rest Test was launched to investigate…

New York's Nassau County has a privatized transit system. (Photo by Ken via Flickr) In Dillon Beach, California, residents pay four to six times more for their water than residents of neighboring towns. To save money, older residents on fixed incomes told researchers, they sometimes bathed only once…

It’s no secret that the Drug Enforcement Administration relies heavily on an army of confidential sources — men and women compelled, coerced, or enticed to share information with law enforcement, sometimes to alleviate their own legal troubles, sometimes for cash. Precisely how those relationships…

Student loan debt has achieved gargantuan proportions. Over the past two decades it has grown to $1.44 trillion , surpassing other forms of debt like credit cards and auto loans. This debt mountain didn’t form overnight and it wasn’t an accident. It has been fueled by intentional government policy.…

The NYPD has not yet released records requested under the state freedom of information law because it could reveal limitations of undercover operations, an NYPD officer said.Photograph: UPI / Barcroft Images Legal papers filed by the New York police department reveal that the department sent its own…

AP Photo/Wisconsin State Journal, M.P. King, Pool Members of the Wisconsin Supreme Court take their chairs before hearing a case at the state Capitol in Madison, Wisconsin. J ohn Paul Stevens called it right. Dissenting in 2010 from the Supreme Court’s notorious Citizens United ruling to overturn…

Photo Illustration by Sarah Rogers/The Daily Beast By Crofton Black & Abigail Fielding-Smith of The Bureau of Investigative Journalism The Pentagon gave a controversial U.K. PR firm over half a billion dollars to run a top secret propaganda program in Iraq, the Bureau of Investigative Journalism can…

What North Americans refer to as the Panama Hat is actually a hat that is made in Ecuador. But the hats that are actually worn throughout the country of Panama, known as sombreros pintados , are quite different. On a recent journey to Panama to replace his worn-out Panamanian-made sombrero, travel…

We made a fancy PDF of this post (original and G-rated versions) for printing and offline viewing. Buy it here. (Or see a preview .) Yesterday, Elon Musk got on stage at the 2016 International Astronautical Congress and unveiled the first real details about the big fucking rocket they’re making. A…

Source and inspiration: This comic was based on this essay from Augusten Burroughs: How to live unhappily ever after . In addition to the essay, I highly recommend reading his books. It's also been described in psychology as flow .

The northern lights over Iceland in February. The glowing orange area on the left side are the lights of the capital, Reykjavik. Jamie Cooper/SSPL via Getty Images On Wednesday evening, the city of Reykjavik, Iceland, turned off street lights and encouraged people to darken their homes so that…

From high above , Agadez almost blends into the cocoa-colored wasteland that surrounds it. Only when you descend farther can you make out a city that curves around an airfield before fading into the desert. Once a nexus for camel caravans hauling tea and salt across the Sahara, Agadez is now a West…

I used to sell equity derivatives at Goldman Sachs, which puts me in fascinating company.

Italian police have recovered two Van Gogh paintings stolen during a dramatic raid on an Amsterdam museum in 2002. The works were recovered from the Naples mafia, they said. The Van Gogh museum in Amsterdam said the works were found during a "massive, continuing investigation" by Italian prosecutors…

The hacker used commercialPhotograph: A. T. Willett / Alamy/Alamy It’s an old cliché of security researchers: fingerprints might appear more secure than passwords. But if your password gets stolen, you can change it to a new one; what happens when your fingerprint gets copied? That’s no longer an…

James Flynn is worried about leaving the world to millennials. As a professor at the University of Otago in New Zealand, he regularly meets bright students with enormous potential, only to find that many of them aren’t engaging with the complex past of the world around them. “They have all these…

Media player And we'll keep you signed in. or Why sign in to the BBC? Got a TV Licence? You need one to watch live TV on any channel or device, and BBC programmes on iPlayer. It’s the law. Find out more I don’t have a TV Licence. Summary The Rosetta spacecraft has collided with a comet Scientists…

Nearly half of the states in the U.S. have recently had their voter registration systems targeted by foreign hackers, and four of those systems have successfully been breached, sources tell ABC News. That amount of targeting and actual infiltration into state election-related systems is…

Pablo Iglesias When the clerk called Willie Mae Swansey's case in a crowded courtroom last February, the 72-year-old approached the judge slowly, supporting herself with a four-pronged cane. It had been a busy afternoon in the Daley Center's civil forfeiture courtroom, with more than a dozen quick…

Maritime landing page for North Korea [Image Source: Reddit/ DNS Release ] The world accidentally got a glimpse into North Korea's internet this week, and it turns out that they only have 28 websites in the entire country. A GitHub data dump posted yesterday includes a list of websites that are…

Image credit: zviray The chronic epidemic of face blindness that affects the population of Metropolis and prevents them from realizing that Clark Kent and the freaking flying alien who looks just like him are actually the same person extends to the tech sector where we continually argue over how…

William Evanina has never met Edward Snowden , but the two are intimately bound. As National Counterintelligence Executive — essentially the man in charge of American counterintelligence — Evanina is tasked with fixing the damage that leaks like Snowden’s have done to the U.S. intelligence…

At 2:28 pm on August 28, 2003, a middle-aged pizza deliveryman named Brian Wells walked into a PNC Bank in Erie, Pennsylvania. He had a short cane in his right hand and a strange bulge under the collar of his T-shirt. Wells, 46 and balding, passed the teller a note. "Gather employees with access…

The streets of Xiamen in eastern China's Fujian province were submerged by floodwaters brought by Typhoon Megi on Wednesday. AFP/Getty Images In the past two days, Typhoon Megi has pounded Taiwan and the coast of southeast China and forced tens of thousands of people to evacuate amid rising…

A little known species driven to the edge of extinction by poaching has gained extra protection at the Cites meeting in South Africa. Pangolins are slow moving, nocturnal creatures found across Asia and Africa but over a million have been taken from the wild in the last decade. The trade is being…

In a deceptively drab black crystal, physicists have stumbled upon a baffling behavior, one that appears to blur the line between the properties of metals, in which electrons flow freely, and those of insulators, in which electrons are effectively stuck in place. The crystal exhibits hallmarks of…

Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. and Lyn Redwood, RN, MSN Sep. 20, 2016 01:38PM EST An international team of scientists led by the U.S Geological Survey (USGS) released a comprehensive report last week showing widespread mercury contamination across western North America. The report, based on decades of…

Chile’s Communist Party Rejects Intervention in Venezuela Nigeria: Early Tally Shows Buhari in Lead, Opposition Rejects 86% Votes For New Constitution in Cuba US VP Pence Leads Lima Group, Pushes for More Severe Blockade Venezuela: EU Spurns Violent Intervention for Peaceful Solution Campaign…

Charlo Greene went viral when she quit live on air to announce that she would be founding Alaska Cannabis Club.Photograph: Nathaniel Wilder for the Guardian Update | 29 September 2016 : The most recent charges against Charlo Greene in her marijuana case include six more offenses than the original…

The White House reacted harshly to the Senate’s overwhelming vote on Wednesday to override President Obama’s veto of a bill that would enable the family members of 9/11 victims to sue the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia in U.S. Courts. Press Secretary Josh Earnest called it “the single most embarrassing…

The Simpsons needs no introduction. At 27 seasons and counting, it’s the longest-running scripted series in the history of American primetime television. The show’s longevity, and the fact that it’s animated, provides a vast and relatively unchanging universe of characters to study. It’s easier for…