What can voodoo dolls tell us about the public’s distrust of, and aggression toward, scientists? A new paper has attempted to find out. The paper, which examined about 750 responses across two ...

If you can’t beat ’em, hex ’em. The Mexico City-based sports newspaper Record has offered fans of the Mexican National Team a coupon to be redeemed at Radio Shack for a voodoo doll. The doll looks ...

Health insurance? Paid time off? Bonuses? Retirement plans? These all seem like good employee benefits that matter, don't they? But as it turns out another very inexpensive employee benefit may matter ...

Not content with jailing subversive reporters and restricting access to prodemocracy Web sites, the Chinese government has turned its attentions to a new destabilizing influence: voodoo dolls. Central ...

Two days after putting a legal end to 20 years of faithful marriage, Stacey Carkhuff decided to celebrate. At her stepmother’s house in Kansas City, Mo., her friends welcomed her with a surprise. They ...

A controversial voodoo doll is proving to be quite the pain in the side of French President Nicolas Sarkozy. The doll, which features Sarkozy's likeness and is being sold in some French stores, comes ...

A lot of us know what can happen when we get hungry. We get grumpy, irritable and sometimes nasty. There's even a name for this phenomenon: "Hangry, which is a combination of the words hungry and ...