Stories by Paul Raeburn

Paul Raeburn is a journalist, blogger and broadcaster and author of five books, including The Game Theorist's Guide to Parenting: How the Science of Strategic Thinking Can Help You Deal With the Toughest Negotiators You Know--Your Kids (Scientific American/Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2016).

Medicine

A Common Anesthetic Could Ease PTSD and Other Stress Disorders

Propofol reduces the intensity of traumatic memories

March 21, 2019 — Paul Raeburn

Biotech

How to Identify Almost Anyone in a Consumer Gene Database

New techniques that dig more deeply into genetic databases may soon make the anonymity of their customers’ DNA impossible to safeguard

October 11, 2018 — Paul Raeburn

Behavior

Present Fathers Delay Teen Pregnancy

The influence of fathers on their teenage children has long been overlooked. Now researchers are finding surprising ways in which dads make a difference

June 24, 2016 — Paul Raeburn

Mind & Brain

Game Theory for Parents

Mathematically tested measures to make your kids cooperate—all on their own

March 10, 2016 — Paul Raeburn and Kevin Zollman

Behavior

How Dads Influence Teens' Happiness

The influence of fathers on their teenage children has long been overlooked. Now researchers are finding surprising ways in which dads make a difference

June 5, 2014 — Paul Raeburn

The Sciences

The Father Factor

Could becoming a father after age 40 raise the risks that your children will have a mental illness?

October 23, 2012 — Paul Raeburn

Mind & Brain

The Father Factor: How Dad's Age Increases Baby's Risk of Mental Illness

Could becoming a father after age 40 raise the risks that your children will have a mental illness?

February 4, 2009 — Paul Raeburn

Environment

Using Chaos Theory to Revitalize Fisheries

There are fewer fish in the sea than ever. Complexity theory, argues mathematician George Sugihara, provides a counterintuitive way to revitalize the world's fisheries

February 3, 2009 — Paul Raeburn

Health

Can Fat Be Fit?

A well-publicized study and a spate of popular books raise questions about the ill effects of being overweight. Their conclusions are probably wrong

August 19, 2007 — Paul Raeburn

Mind & Brain

Kids on Meds -- Trouble Ahead

Antidepressants, designed for adults, may be altering the brains of kids who take them

May 30, 2007 — Paul Raeburn

The Sciences

Slow-Acting

After 25 years, the EPA still won't ban a risky pesticide

August 14, 2006 — Paul Raeburn

The Sciences

A Regulation on Regulations

An obscure law is evolving into a bludgeon against government regulation

June 26, 2006 — Paul Raeburn

The Sciences

Legislating Integrity

A small attempt to prevent political misuse of science

April 23, 2006 — Paul Raeburn

Environment

The End of Oil

Will Gas Lines in the Coming Decade Make Those of 1973 Look Short?

October 16, 2001 — Paul Raeburn