These boots were made for sticking

These boots are made for walking.

“ ‘These Boots Are Made for Walking’ ”: A Reply

Erik Craft’s comment on our 2000 article takes up a minor point, the impact of no-fault divorce on the gender of the spouse filing for divorce. In the original article, we related the gender of the filing to rent exploitation during marriage, rent appropriation through divorce, and particularly child custody. We tested the hypotheses we generated using a sample of more than 46,000 divorce decre...

These boots weren't made for walking: tarsal tunnel syndrome.

These feet were made for walking

New fossil footprints excavated at the famous Laetoli site in Tanzania suggest that our bipedal ancestors had a wide range of body sizes.

Sticking Points

Nowadays a blood test usually requires a doctor’s visit, a needle poke in the arm, and a day-long wait for results to come back from a lab. So when Silicon Valley start-up Theranos promised a device that could perform more than a hundred of the most commonly ordered blood tests from just a fingerstick, doctors, patients, and investors were quick to get behind the company. Valued at $9 billion i...