Having sex as you age helps you to stay healthy and to enjoy life — Last January I played When I’m Sixty-Four on my birthday. I have been listening to that Beatles’ song since I was 14, wondering how I would be when I finally arrived to that age. Now, fifty years later, I think I would surprise my former self if he could see…

After science discarded the soul, consciousness took its place. — How We Lost Our Soul Science made us lose our souls. We have lost our soul because we no longer need to believe that we have a soul. We have a mind, and neuroscience is showing how this mind results from the functioning of our brain. Without the brain, there is no mind. However, our…

New genetic techniques like fluorescent reporter genes, optogenetics and DREADD allow scientist to manipulate the functions of individual cells in live animals. — Many of my scientists colleagues are thrilled about the new transgenic techniques. Transgenic methods are sophisticated molecular biology techniques that consist of moving genes from one species to another, or in creating artificial genes and expressing them in a living organism. …

The principles of sex-positive culture are interdependent and logically anchored in personal freedom and autonomy — Sex-positive culture arose from the sexual liberation of the 60s and the Feminists Sex Wars that started in the 80s and persist until today. This protracted confrontation between radical feminists and sex-positive feminists gave rise to a larger sex-positive culture that eventually spilled out of feminism into general society.

Thinking that we deserve the best, and chasing happiness and virtue, feed the ego. — What is the ego? The ego is not who you are. The ego is not your self. It is not ‘the thinker of thoughts’, that illusory being that we believe does things around inside our mind. Who we really are is the totality of your being, conscious and unconscious. …

Find out what are dendrites, axons, ion channels and action potentials — Neurons Every tissue of the body is formed by specialized cells. For example, muscles are formed by muscle fibers or myocytes, which are able to contract, generating force and movement. The liver has hepatocytes, cells specialized in processing and storing food. The kidney has brush border cells and other types of…

How to live a life worth living through action instead of contemplation. — The archetype of the warrior Please, don’t be put off by the word warrior. Although it suggests war and aggression, the warrior is an archetype found in most cultures. In the psychology of Carl Jung, archetypes are mythical characters present in the collective subconscious. …

Companies that publish scientific journals exploit scientists and the taxpayer. — Scientists have to pay to publish their papers It is a true scandal how commercial publishers of scientific journals have been profiting by exploiting scientists. Scientist do all the work that goes into making a science paper. They do the research, analyze the date, create the figures and write the paper. Then other scientists work as editor for…

Properly cited scientific papers increase your credibility and provide evidence for your arguments. — Poor sources of evidence Many writers use as evidence links to sites that have poor credibility. These include: Websites with an ideological bend. These have the worse credibility of all because they are obviously pandering a set of beliefs. If you link to them, you identify yourself as a member of that ideological bubble…