Dressed in a suit with two earrings in his left ear, Jay Phelan reclined back in his chair and put his feet up on his desk as he talked about a few of his favorite things: data, science and teaching. Read more...

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Jay Phelan, a professor and evolutionary biologist in the life sciences department at UCLA, speaks in a lecture. Phelan recently co-authored the second edition of “Mean Genes: From Sex to Money to Food: Taming Our Primal Instincts” with Chapman University professor Terry Burnham.

You can find countless dietary supplements that will claim to help you lose weight, enhance performance, boost your immunity, improve sleep or give you energy "“ you name it, there's a supplement marketed to fix it. Read more...

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David Baron

This week, we will consider the age-old question of how best to stay awake when you need to cram for an exam or get that paper written by morning, and which works best, coffee or soda. Read more...

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David Baron

So what's important about our kidneys and how can we keep them healthy? Read more...

A pink and green arch "“ formed by balloons "“ fluttered in the wind. The sun beating down on their helmets, bicyclists came trickling past the makeshift finish line. Read more...

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Bike riders in the West Coast ride of the eighth annual Young Survival Coalition Tour de Pink coast across the finish line Sunday afternoon. Lisa Mittleman, a breast cancer survivor and an alumna of the UCLA Anderson School of Management, participated in the three-day event.