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Can a Picture Of Your Mother Diagnose Depression?

Can a Picture Of Your Mother Diagnose Depression?

Sigmund Freud gets a bad rap from modern science. (The immunologist Peter Medawar summarized the feeling of many with his remark that psychoanalysis is the “most stupendous intellectual confidence trick of the twentieth century.”) Sure, Freud’s theories mangled a lot of details — we no longer worry about penis envy or the Oedipus complex — but he was shockingly prescient on the big themes. In recent years, it’s become clear that, as Freud always insisted, the unconscious is the dominant force in our mental life. (What Freud called the id is now a network of brain areas associated with...

Nigeria Oil Spill Raises Concerns About New Drilling Tech

Satellite images of Nigeria’s coastline show the new Shell oil spill covering a 356-square-mile patch of ocean.

By Deepwater Horizon mega-disaster benchmarks, it’s not so big — but it might be in the Exxon Valdez ballpark, and underscores the risks of a new deepwater oil-gathering technique that’s coming soon to the Gulf of Mexico.

“The significance here is the technology they’re using,” said John Amos of the environmental watchdog group Skytruth. “It’s a whole new source of potentially major oil spills.”

The spill occurred Dec. 20 at Shell’s Bonga deepwater facility, prompting an immediate...

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