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May 17, 2013 Subscribe · Forward Off-World Driving Record Broken NASA's long-lived Opportunity Mars rover is the new American champion of off-planet driving, breaking a distance record set more than 40 years ago by an Apollo moon buggy. Continue reading... Bizarre Brain Technique Shown To Boost Math Skills Rarest Element On Earth Spotlighted In New Study LOOK: Earth & Sky Photo Contest Winners Legendary Lost City May Have Been Found DNA Points To Surprising Origin For Ancient Island Civilization Physics Lab Tech Sentenced In Cocaine Case World's Oldest Water Discovered Deep Underground Financial Success In Adulthood Tied To Key Skills At Age 7 Facial Hair Study Reveals Look Women Like Most World's Oldest Water Discovered Deep Underground Religious Beliefs, Emotional Problems Linked In Provocative New Study ROB BROOKS The Evolution of Lying Rather than simply cheating -- trying to gain from another's cooperative behaviour without behaving cooperatively yourself -- lying adds another way of operating. By misleading the other individual, one can trick that individual into cooperating. Continue reading... MICHAEL ZAKARAS The Case Against the Case Against Empathy In our efforts to solve difficult social problems in particular, we rely too heavily on reason and numbers and econometrics, and not often enough on empathy. And by empathy I don't just mean our emotions, and I certainly don't mean feeling sorry -- that's sympathy. Continue reading... RONALD L. WASSERSTEIN A Statistician's View: What Are Your Chances of Winning the Powerball Lottery? Your chance of winning the lottery on a single ticket is one in 175 million. That seems tiny, and it is. In fact, it's so small that it is difficult for us to grasp. Understanding how small this number is provides the key to understanding how likely -- or unlikely -- it is you will become the next big winner of the Powerball jackpot. Continue reading... ALLEN FRANCES DSM-5: Where Do We Go From Here? My recommendation for clinicians is simple. Don't use DSM-5 -- there is nothing official about it, nothing especially helpful in it, and all the codes you need for reimbursement are already available for free on the Internet or in DSM-IV. Continue reading... LAUREN PECORINO Breast Cancer Risk: Jolie Way Is Not the Only Way Celebrities often set trends: they show us what to wear, create hairstyles, and inspire tattoos. But when it comes to your health it is important to know the facts before joining a trend. 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