4 August 2009

Antidepressant Use Up In United States, Except Among Minorities

By Alex Alvarez at 2:03 PM.

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Surprise! According to an article in the August issue of the Archives of General Psychiatry, antidepressant use in the United States has doubled since 1996. Ethnic minorities were the exception this 10+ year trend.

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Deconstructing Ghetto Nerds

By Alex Alvarez at 9:00 AM.

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Here’s why we’re tired of reading about the rise of ghetto nerds: This isn’t new. Poor nerds have been winning at life in this country for a long, long time now.

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7 April 2009

Kal Penn’s Death On House, Or, Why Do Brown People Always Have To Die?

By Alex Alvarez at 11:10 AM.

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Lawrence Kutner, Kal Penn’s character on the series House, is (one would likely assume) no longer on the show, as he was found dead in his home in a pool of blood. Dr. House spent the duration of the show attempting to figure out whether Kutner’s death was suicide or murder. But it’s so much [...]

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Minority Characters On TV

By Alex Alvarez at 11:05 AM.

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