Successful people didn't get where they are by sittin' on ass.
Tyler Perry
A new study suggests that folks in positions of power are far less fazed by rejection. In fact, UC Berkeley researchers found, these kinds of folks are more likely to come back for more -- to seek out "social bonding opportunities" despite previous rejection.
The research looked at ...
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It's always wonderful when you find out that a previously devious drug has benevolent uses. Like marijuana.
Researchers at the Cedars-Sinai Heart Institute have come up with a doozy involving a miraculous flip-side for some boner pills.
Really:
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Daydreamers used to get in trouble. They were the underachievers. They were the kids who ended up hanging out under the bleachers and smoking stuff that smelled funny. Right?
Tanya Little
Wrong.
New research co-authored by USC assistant professor Mary Helen Immordino-Yang suggests that daydreamers ...
The old read on school bullies was that they were making up for low self-esteem. Every punch in the shoulder, every atomic wedgie was a cry for help and attention.
Hollywood's alleged bully, Harvey Weinstein.
Right?
Wrong, says UCLA professor of developmental psychology Jaana Juvonen. She argues that your local campus bully is, indeed, the cock of the walk, the big man on campus, the Harvey Weinstein of your own Hollywood schoolyard:
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Does this gun make my butt look big? No, but if you're a guy, it could indeed make you appear larger and meaner. That's according to a UCLA statement about the study, which says ... 
UCLA
Not that it takes a rocket scientist to figure out what men are thinking about 90 percent of the time.
Strain Brain
But still, don't you find UCLA's revelation just a little scary?
The school's Laboratory of Integrative Neuroimaging Technology is boasting this week that it has pioneered "brain reading."
Yeah, they can read your mind:
Unlike sad, old homeless men and women, there's hope for homeless teens.
Jonathan Greenwald
That's because, as part of the social networking generation, they seem to stay in touch. And that's good for survival and prospects of getting off the streets, according to a new USC study.
In fact homeless youths value their cellphones as much as they value ...
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Bad news: Almost every one of us has a virus that causes cancer, according to USC research released today. And it's in our mouths.
Elizabeth Beers
The good news: Doctors might be able to treat it if it goes darkside and creates tumors in your pie hole (yeah, we said tumors in your pie hole).
USC's Laboratory for Developmental Genetics today confirmed that cytomegalovirus (CMV) has joined a list of less than ten known cancer-causing viruses in humans that includes the dreaded HPV.
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Long the subject of deep academic research and study, it looks like the mystery of the mean DMV worker has finally been solved.
Day at the DMV.
The USC Marshall School of Business, with the help of Stanford University and the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University, have concluded that workers with some power but a lack of societal status will generally make your life a living hell if given the chance.
We had understood this phenomenon to be called, oh, human nature? According to a USC statement:
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A UCLA psychology professor claims to have found the happy gene.
Airplane Happy!
The gene, the school reports this week, has been linked to optimism, self-esteem and mastery, or what UCLA explains as "the belief that one has control over one's own life."
Well, we have news for you, "distinguished" Prof. Shelley E. Taylor:
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