Derek Beres

Derek Beres

Derek Beres is a freelance writer. Based in Portland, Oregon, he has served in senior editorial positions at a number of tech companies and has years of experience in health, science, and music writing. He is the co-host of the Conspirituality podcast and co-author of Conspirituality: How New Age Conspiracies Became a Health Threat.

With so much emphasis on mothers, turns out fathers have to be equally vigilant in their habits.
In Life After Google, George Gilder writes that we're paying a heavy cost for "free."
The home fitness industry is booming.
Money makes the world go 'round. Unfortunately, it can make both children and adults into materialists.
Anatomy and physiology professor David Harper claims a recent study in The Lancet is flawed.
A measles comeback is not the sort of return our children deserve.
A new study delivers the dark financial reality of cancer.
We talk a lot about what to eat, but what about when?
Antidepressants are destroying underwater ecosystems, which we in turn eat.
Christine Lagorio-Chafkin spent six years writing the definitive history of Reddit.
The road to harmony often means getting your hands dirty.
Novels open us to the nuances of being human.
Researchers at Japan's Tohoku University might be clearing the way for space travel.
High-level official LeClair suppressed her sexuality for decades. Now that she's out, she's speaking up.
Researchers at the Rotman School of Management discovered that past victories rarely translate into new environments.
Researchers at the Max Planck Institute have pinpointed a neurological trend in those genetically predisposed with depression.
With the approval of a childhood epilepsy medication the federal government can no longer claim marijuana has no medical benefit.
We need a break, but the possibility of getting one seems unlikely.
New York–area chefs are working on the problem. More need to follow their lead.
More than 5,000 teens were involved in this longitudinal study.