My oldest son, now 18 years old, has a severely disabling genetic disorder; since infancy he’s been painstakingly cared for by a team of clinicians at Columbia University Medical Center in Manhattan.

When Daniel Lieberman goes on research trips to remote locations in Kenya and Mexico, he’s the only one getting up to go for a run in the morning. Lieberman writes about these contrasts in his latest ...

Humans didn’t evolve to shop for food that has been collected, packaged with nutritional information, and arranged by category in brightly lit supermarkets. In fact, we didn’t evolve to choose our ...

In the mid-1990s, an then-unknown British student named James Blunt ate nothing but ground meat, chicken, and mayonnaise to ...

The words of gastronome Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin, “Tell me what you eat and I will tell you who you are”, may have been published in 1825, but they are just as true today. What we pop in our ...

Biology professor Daniel E. Lieberman ’86 said sugary breakfast cereals should carry warnings like those on cigarette packs at a book talk in Zimmer Hall Wednesday evening. Lieberman, the founding ...