Pregnancy: the hard facts
Economics professor Emily Oster's new book Expecting Better cuts through the myths and faulty data on pregnancy
India’s Supersize Kids; You’re Killing My Son – TV review
John Crace: Obesity in India is largely a middle-class problem, but this film failed to answer the big questions and let fast-food firms off the hook
Benefits Britain 1949; Horizon: Monitor Me –TV review
Tom Meltzer: Does the time-travel-and-tears genre ever actually give us real insights into the past?
Marbles: Mania, Depression, Michelangelo and Me by Ellen Forney – review
A frank and funny graphic memoir from a cartoonist living with bipolar disorder charms Matt Haig
How Not to Get Old – TV review
Sam Wollaston: Anna Richardson and Louise Redknapp offer a joyless guide to cosmetic surgery and other tricks to keep ageing TV reviewers young
Psychiatrists: the drug pushers
Is the current epidemic of depression and hyperactivity the result of disease-mongering by the psychiatric profession and big pharma, asks Will Self. Does psychiatry have any credibility left at all?
The Reason I Jump: One Boy’s Voice from the Silence of Autism, by Naoki Higashida – review
This extraordinary book, written by a 13-year-old autistic boy, challenges popular preconceptions of the condition, says Ned Denny
Unexpected Lessons in Love by Bernardine Bishop – review
A frank and wondrous book about two women who meet during cancer treatment that will make you less afraid of the disease, writes Jane Housham
Why such outrage over porn filters? The idea seems perfectly reasonable to me
Deborah Orr: The angry arguments against David Cameron's opt-in filter proposals seem to imply that it's normal to want access to porn, and abnormal not to want access to porn
Why these female Apprentice finalists give me nothing to cheer about
Lara Whyte: Both Luisa Zissman and Leah Totton's ideas for profit, like their grooming regimes, are profoundly dispiriting