Teen to Teen

The perception in society is that today’s teenagers are more able than ever to take on the pressures of daily life and be successful, and for most of us, that seems to be the case. But what happens when this façade is lifted? A new study showed that five times as many high school and college students suffer from anxiety and other mental health issues as people of the same age did during the Great Depression. Five times! Five universities participated in the study, analyzing Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI) …

Hello, I’m Maddy. Welcome to my blog! I’m going to be writing about psychology, and any other scientific topic that interests me!

“What is love?” asked the singer Haddaway in 1993, as well as plenty of people before and since then. Recently I heard Dr. Helen Fisher, Rutgers University anthropologist and the brains behind dating site chemistry.com, speak at the New York Academy of Sciences. She shed some light on the complex issue of why we humans fall in love with one person rather than another. (Dr. Fisher’s latest book is …

Let’s say you’re the parent/mentor/teacher/tutor/friend of a kid super-excited about some aspect of science, technology, engineering or math (STEM). You want to nurture that interest and keep that child engaged, especially during the dull times of school breaks, after-school and perhaps even for school-related projects. Whether you’re an educator or not, sometimes an adult needs reinforcements to help a child or teen find his/her own interest path.
Fostering science, math, and engineering interests in young people is the goal of several organizations, including many of our nation’s publicly funded agencies like …

Garbage Dreams is a documentary film which sheds light on how much the world needs to refocus its values. This film proves that modernization is not always the best idea. The film introduces us to Cairo’s most influential, but highly underappreciated, social group, Christians known as the Zaballeen. Their livelihoods are centered on collecting and recycling Cairo’s trash. This is all they know, but now foreign garbage companies want to strip them of their livelihood. The Zaballeen live on the outskirts of Cairo, where hey recycle 80 percent of everything …

Looking for fun after school? How about performing surgery? The only requirement is that you be tall enough to reach the keyboard. Virtual surgery is for everyone. It’s a creative way to learn about your body and explore professions in science. Edheads hosts a variety of different virtual activities. You can design your own cell phone, conduct surgery, investigate a car crash, or predict the weather. From would-be medical practitioner to detective, meteorologist, or engineer, Edheads offers something for everyone.
Most people find the virtual surgeries the best feature of …

Also see Rosalee’s review of The Age of Stupid.
With ice caps melting in the Arctic and the rising of global temperatures, how many more years do we really have on Earth? The Age of Stupid is a documentary which combines fiction, personal accounts from real people, and animation to illustrate how our ignorance will lead to our demise. The Age of Stupid opens in the United States on September 21, 2009, as part of the United Nations’ Climate Week. The producers want us all to take action against climate change …

Our own video producer Jesse Strauss had the opportunity to ask astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson of NOVA a question about the potential benefits of space flight for the human race. The video is below:

Howdy all. My name is Matt Segal, and since my school requires all of its seniors to undertake 3 weeks of independent study as a graduation requirement, I’ve decided to spend my time working at the Rao Lab in the Immune Disease Institute in the Harvard Medical School. This is my second stint working at the lab (I completed a summer long internship last year here as well), and hopefully I’ll be able to give you a window into what real research lab work is like (at least to the …

Eileen Jang, US winner of the Stockholm Junior Water Prize, a premiere environmental science award, sponsored by ITT Corporation, answers questions about the dangers of having mercury around us in our environment and how we can help to raise awareness about it.

Interviewed by: Rosalee Washington, Betty Diop, Ann Marie Cunningham
Edited by: Aloisia Staffa and Austen Saltz

The Bodies Exhibit at South Street Seaport in lower Manhattan features displays that you would never find in any ordinary biology or anatomy textbook. It combines science with art in such an innovative way that you’ll be asking for more. The exhibit displays real human bodies while focusing on particular body systems. Each body is opened up in very specific ways to emphasize a disease or illustrate body movements. It might sound disgusting, but it’s actually a wonder to see. You see the bodies doing many …