Scientific American provides an example of the sort of risks and costs we tend to lose sight of while worrying about flashier, more politically marketable, yet relatively minor risks, such as losses to terrorism: It is the ultimate paradox of American health care: going to the hospital can kill you. Every year nearly two million [...]

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It seems that poverty and the endless ills that accompany being poor are passed from generation to generation. The Economist reports on research that further confirms the brain science behind apparently inherited lack of resourcefulness. The bottom line is that growing up in resource deprived circumstances creates persistent stressors. Stress provokes natural physiochemical responses that, [...]

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