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Are you a toe-tapper, hair-twirler, eye-blinker, head-nodder, nail-biter, knuckle-cracker, skin-picker, lip-licker, shoulder-shrugger or a chin-stroker? Call it a nervous habit or tic, almost everybody has at least one -- whether [...]

SAN ANTONIO -- If within the past few years you received a package, roamed a shopping mall, boarded a plane, train, ferry or cruise ship, went to a major sporting [...]

It happens like a bolt out of the blue. One minute you're fine, and the next you begin to sweat as crippling cramps move wavelike through your belly. You vomit [...]

If you took Psychology 101 in college, you probably had to enroll in an experiment to fulfill a course requirement or to get extra credit. Students are the usual subjects [...]

CORRECTION APPENDEDBlindfolded, would you know the smell of your mom, a lover or a co-worker? Not the smells of their colognes or perfumes, not of the laundry detergents they use [...]

Byline: KATE MURPHY Correction Appended Blindfolded, would you know the smell of your mom, a lover or a co-worker? Not the smells of their colognes or perfumes, not of the [...]

Flowers, trinkets, borrowed sweaters and other reminders of our romantic past may get tossed out. But love letters, for those lucky enough to receive them, are different. They are more [...]

Byline: Kate Murphy, The Cincinnati Enquirer Miami University is wrestling with what administrators are calling a 'blackout culture' among students centered on extensive consumption of hard liquor. President Gregory Crawford [...]

Byline: Kate Murphy, Cincinnati Enquirer College and high school students in Greater Cincinnati are using 3D printing to solve medical problems in the community. A group of biomedical engineering students [...]

When you think of security around the president of the United States, you most likely think of Secret Service officers in sunglasses, talking into microphones hidden in their cuffs. You [...]

Byline: KATE MURPHY Correction Appended Rare is the individual who hasn't tripped over a pet or uneven pavement, tumbled off a bike, slipped on ice or maybe wiped out skiing [...]

Lightning's intricate, darting dance across the sky can be mesmerizing or terrifying, elegant or explosive, divine or destructive, depending on how close it is. But meteorologists have historically viewed lightning [...]

Byline: KATE MURPHY Lightning's intricate, darting dance across the sky can be mesmerizing or terrifying, elegant or explosive, divine or destructive, depending on how close it is. But meteorologists have [...]

We live in a culture that celebrates individualism and self-reliance, and yet we humans are an exquisitely social species, thriving in good company and suffering in isolation. More than anything [...]

David Gray is a British singer-songwriter currently on tour in North America, where he has been playing his eclectic folk-rock and experimental repertoire at sold-out shows. READING I recently read [...]

Eavesdrop on any conversation or pay close attention to your own and you'll hear laughter. From explosive bursts to muffled snorts, some form of laughter punctuates almost all verbal communication. [...]

Philip Le Roux is curator of Kirstenbosch National Botanical Garden in Cape Town. READING The Elon Musk biography by Ashlee Vance. He went to school in South Africa but it [...]

James Turner is the founder of Glimpse, an English nonprofit that advocates valuing friends and experiences more than the ''stuff'' advertisers pressure us to buy. The group's first project was [...]

Laura Benanti is a Tony Award-winning actress and singer who most recently appeared in the Broadway revival of ''She Loves Me.'' She has also had many roles on television, including [...]

TIM KAINE is a United States senator from Virginia and the Democratic nominee for vice president. READING I just finished ''Zeitoun'' by Dave Eggers. It's about a Syrian-American guy who [...]

MIKE PENCE is the governor of Indiana and the Republican nominee for vice president. READING Jon Meacham's biography of Andrew Jackson, ''American Lion.'' I hadn't read much about Andrew Jackson [...]

Megan Price is executive director of the Human Rights Data Analysis Group, or Hrdag, a nonprofit, nonpartisan organization that collects and analyzes data to investigate and document human rights violations [...]

Taylor Sheridan is an actor turned screenwriter who wrote the screenplay for this summer's sleeper hit ''Hell or High Water.'' READING Almost exclusively nonfiction, historical or anthropological. I'm a storyteller [...]

We've all seen them, those colorful images that show how our brains ''light up'' when we're in love, playing a video game, craving chocolate, etc. Created using functional magnetic resonance [...]

Dominique Perrault is a French architect respected for his minimalist sensibility and projects that comfortably meld environment, culture and utility. He is perhaps best known for an expansion of the [...]

Brenda Martinez is a track and field athlete specializing in middle distances who is competing in the 1,500 meters at the Rio Olympics. READING Some of the books I read [...]

HOUSTON -- Anyone who has survived a summer in Texas will tell you the heat has heft. It pushes back when you try to move through it, squeezes sweat from [...]

THINK of all the people with whom you interact during the course of a day, week, month and year. The many souls with whom you might exchange a greeting or [...]

Boon Hui Tan was named vice president for global arts and programming for the Asia Society last year following a decade shaping the art scene in his native Singapore, where [...]

Frans de Waal is a Dutch-American primatologist who studies the parallels between human and ape social behavior, particularly relating to empathy, outrage, peacemaking, conflict and cooperation. His latest book is [...]

Sophie Blackall is an Australian artist living in Brooklyn who has illustrated more than 30 children's books, including ''Finding Winnie,'' for which she won a Caldecott Medal (equivalent to an [...]

Byline: KATE MURPHY You may consider yourself even-keeled, the kind of person who is unflappable when those around you are losing their cool. But all that goes out the window [...]

You may consider yourself even-keeled, the kind of person who is unflappable when those around you are losing their cool. But all that goes out the window when you call [...]

James Souza is a third-generation pyrotechnician who is president and chief executive of Pyro Spectaculars. The company is one of the largest designers and producers of fireworks displays in the [...]

Uzoamaka Aduba, known as Uzo, is an Emmy Award-winning actress and classically trained vocalist best known for her role as Suzanne Warren, a.k.a. Crazy Eyes, in the Netflix series ''Orange [...]

Bradford Parkinson is an engineer, inventor and retired Air Force colonel widely recognized as the father of the Global Positioning System, or GPS, now critical for navigation, whether it's in [...]

Jim Lahey is a James Beard Award-winning baker and the owner of Sullivan Street Bakery in New York. His ''no-knead'' bread recipe went viral 10 years ago and is still [...]