A No-Drug Approach to Wellness. A thoughtful essay by an internist-turned-psychiatrist, confronting the struggle many patients have accepting medications for emotional symptoms such as depression or anxiety because they don’t want to cede control over who they are. Ironically, people who reluctantly accept antidepressants, as the essayist concludes, often end up saying they “feel more like myself.” New York Times

Mysterious Night Glow in the Skies of Venus Puzzles Scientists New York Times

Pee on Your Own Time Arkansas Times [via Red Rock Eaters]

Bush Bans Aid to Foreign Groups Promoting Abortion. As if we were surprised, we wades right into the most polarizing issue in domestic politics with the first major action of his administration. “Uniting, not divisive”? Wanting to make early points with the religious right, as he did with the Ashcroft nomination? Opponents of abortion are loving it.

Ominous Findings on Seattle Quake Risk “It’s like building on Jell-O. You put a bowl of
Jell-O on a table and shake the table, that bowl of Jell-O is
going to oscillate a lot.” New York Times