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May 23, 2013 Subscribe · Forward Were We Wrong About Wright Brothers? Did history get the Wright brothers all wrong? As every American schoolchild is taught, Wilbur and Orville Wright made the world's first airplane flight at Kitty Hawk, N.C. on Dec. 17, 1903. But a recent article in a respected aviation journal argues that the credit should go instead to Gustave Whitehead Continue reading... WATCH: Rare View Of Colossal Galaxy Collision Old Tooth Yields New Insight Into Neanderthal Moms Old Leaves Reveal Cause Of Great Famine REVEALED: Disturbing Trend In Human Intelligence Were We Wrong About The Wright Brothers? BUSTED: 7 Dangerous Myths About Tornado Safety REVEALED: Disturbing Trend In Human Intelligence Were We Wrong About The Wright Brothers? REVEALED: Disturbing Trend In Human Intelligence Were We Wrong About The Wright Brothers? 'Maiden' Mummy Shares Her Secrets After 500 Years WRAY HERBERT The New (Malevolent) Ageism The elderly have never been honored in American society. They have more often been stereotyped, stigmatized and pitied. And according to Princeton University psychological scientist Susan Fiske, this unfair ageist stereotyping could become even darker with the new influx of seniors. Continue reading... ALLEN FRANCES The Role of Biological Tests in Psychiatric Diagnosis May has been a dispiriting month for psychiatry and a sad and worrying time for our patients. Three of the leading mental health organizations have squabbled among themselves -- promoting silly and competing 'paradigm shifts' while ignoring the unmet needs of our patients. Continue reading... TROY CAMPBELL Can People Choose Their Emotions Like Spock? In Star Trek Into Darkness, Spock claims he can choose whether or not to feel an emotion. Can humans chose how to feel or is this simply a Vulcan thing? The answer is that people can often act in a Vulcan manner and choose their feelings. Continue reading... STANTON PEELE The Search for Mental Illness and Addiction in the Brain, Part II: Why Are the Human Psyche and Behavior So Complicated? The very inconclusiveness of the Human Genome Project as detailed in part one is pushing us to conclude that we were only looking in the wrong place when we put a microscope to our DNA. Instead, we have determined to look to the brain directly. Continue reading... ROB BROOKS Explaining Schwarzenegger -- Men, Biceps and the Politics of Getting What You Want Entitled "The Ancestral Logic of Politics," a paper published last week in Psychological Science explored the link between male upper-body strength and assertion of economic self-interest. The link between what and what? Exactly. Continue reading... Received this from a friend? Sign up for alerts from The Huffington Post here. Unsubscribe here. Huffington Post, 770 Broadway, New York, NY 10003