Volunteering to help others feels good and improves our health. But if serving others benefits us aren’t we just being selfish? Is altruism (doing something for others even if we don’t benefit) even possible? Philosopher Thomas Nagel thinks not. To […]
Vertebroplasty is a fancy name for making a small cut in someone’s back then injecting bone glue (cement) into a vertebrae that has been damaged. It is used to treat the growing number of people with back pain: in 2003 […]
You are a caveman just back from your very first buffalo hunt. You noticed that the one whose spear hit the buffalo got a high five (or whatever a caveman high five was). You want the next caveman high five […]
In 1968 Herbert Benson was doing blood pressure experiments with monkeys at Harvard. 1968 was also the year that the Beatles visited a meditation guru called the Maharishi Yogi in India. Eastern spirituality suddenly became very trendy, and some of […]
The fight or flight response was incredibly well designed to help our ancestors survive in the wild. Today the very same response is being activated by our stressful lifestyles and killing us. To see how, imagine you are a caveman […]
You have an amazing body. This is true whether or not you think you have the kind of body they take pictures of to put on magazine covers. In any case the pictures on magazine covers aren’t real – they […]