Kevin Charles Redmon

The Informant

What makes a man break the street’s code of silence and testify against his best friends?

Washingtonian

iPhones Make Lousy Dermatologists

Smartphone apps claim to provide medical help, but just how good are their diagnoses?

Salon (via Pacific Standard)

Put Down the Laptop and Lace Up the Hiking Boots

New research reveals that we’re more focused and creative in the outdoors.

Salon (via Pacific Standard)

Who’s Most Susceptible to PTSD?

A staggering number of returning soldiers are afflicted by the disorder, yet we still don’t entirely understand it

Salon (via Pacific Standard)

What to Expect When You’re Not Expecting

Prescribing Plan B for teenage girls before they need it

Salon (via Pacific Standard)

WHAM! Doctor Tries Comic Book to Boost Trauma Drug

A cheap drug could save thousands of trauma patients from bleeding to death. Why won’t doctors use it?

NPR

Can Facebook Promote Safe Sex?

Targeting high-risk teenagers with public health initiatives

Salon (via Pacific Standard)

What Can We Learn from Freestyle Rappers?

They may hold the secret to creativity

Salon (via Pacific Standard)

Can a Condiment Save Us from Strokes?

No. Only a web editor would write a link-bait hed like that.

Salon

The Death and Afterlife of Amanda Todd

A tragic suicide underscores just how easy it is for teenagers find trouble on the Web—and how hard it can be to escape the past.

Pacific Standard

How to Save a (Nigerien) Life

The Millennium Development Goals call for an ambitious reduction in child mortality by 2015. In West Africa, Niger is sweeping away the competition. What’s its secret?

Pacific Standard

And The Prize for Gluttony Goes To…

The secret to genius? It might be more chocolate

National Public Radio

To End All Wars

What happens when a premodern society swaps axes for semiautomatic weapons?

Pacific Standard

When Working Out Doesn’t Work

A Danish study reveals that, when it comes to working out and losing weight, unintended consequences can hamper even the best of intentions.

Pacific Standard

Veiled Doubts: New Reasons to Say “I Don’t”

Doubts before “I do” can predict unhappy marriages and even divorce, but many brides walk down the aisle anyway.

Pacific Standard

Kevin Charles Redmon

“Then Nate Simms did something really crazy: He snitched.”

“Smartphones, like Swiss Army knives and SkyMall watches, have a few nifty features and plenty of useless ones.”

“Little is known about the human brain on technology — less than even the brain on drugs — but many social psychologists fear that so much ‘screen time’ is rewiring our neural circuitry, and not for the better.”

“The awful cost and calculus of war never changes, of course, but in the 60 years between Operation Overlord and Operation Iraqi Freedom, our understanding of the human brain, on and off the battlefield, has marched far ahead.”

“There’s no culture war like the contraception war.”

“Roberts’ comic book begins with a bomb blast and follows three rather well-chiseled emergency doctors as they make their rounds, triaging casualties and treating wounds.”

“What exactly is Facebook good for, anyway? Investigating the college antics of the office intern, perhaps, or reminding exes how happy you are with your new man who, ahem, just surprised you with a trip to Turks and Caicos.”

“Beware physicians—and, ahem, journalists—bearing small sample sizes and non-randomized study designs.”

“Amanda Todd is an Internet sensation. Last week, her name was a trending Twitter #hashtag. A Facebook page honoring her has 590,000 “Likes.” A YouTube message she recorded to the world has been watched more than four million times. If only Amanda Todd had lived long enough to witness it.”

“Nerds, rejoice! It’s Nobel season — the Oscars for lab rats, peacemakers and cognoscenti alike.”

“The Enga are something of a living fossil, preserved by geography and chance.”

“Our animal brains begin to treat trips to the gym as a reason to eat more than usual and veg out, with predictable results.”

“In 2005, a Georgia bride-to-be faked her own kidnapping and inspired a statewide manhunt before turning up in New Mexico, the victim of nothing more than cold feet.”