Too Hot to Handle Some like it hot. Nearly sixty years ago, film director Billy Wilder presciently premised that two men fleeing the hotly pursuing Chicago mob could succeed by dressing as women, and then unexpectedly find true love. But what happens to hot men and women when the mercury keeps rising? The strange transports of […]
Your Angry Heart
Type A or Type B? Anger can prove fatal to the heart, particularly when using heavy exercise to calm yourself down. To understand why, we need to turn to the strange history of A versus B – Type A and Type B personality. People still proudly or fearfully describe themselves as “Type A or Type […]
The Enraged Heart (3/11/14)
Does Anger Kill? For thousands of years the anecdotal answer has been yes. Rage frequently kills those enraged – and those around them. But what happens in modern life? Therein’s a tale involving personality, tobacco, and the changing mores of research. What’s New Now? A large meta-analysis in the European Heart Journal, put together […]