Hero of Harlem Beats Ayn Rand With Altruism
Volunteering to help others feels good and improves our health. But if serving others benefits us aren’t we just being […]
Doing good can do you good
We feel good when we do a good deed, so there must be a psychological benefit to helping others? But […]
Does marijuana cure depression?
A doctor and a lawyer were talking at a party, but they weren’t having fun because people kept interrupting to […]
The doctor as a cure
Cure sometimes, treat often, comfort always – Hippocrates The story of Quesalid This is a true story. A hundred […]
Are we all going insane?
In the early 1970s psychologist Dr. David Rosenhan from Columbia University did a crazy experiment. He took a group of […]
Do I have a chocolate cake gene?
“At any given moment, you have the power to say: This is not how the story is going to end.” […]
Love is a drug
Man cannot live by bread alone Clifford and Eva Vevea were ‘hopelessly in love’ for 65 years of marriage and […]
How to Fix your Back Pain Without Glue
Vertebroplasty is a fancy name for making a small cut in someone’s back then injecting bone glue (cement) into a […]
Your natural dopamine high
You are a caveman just back from your very first buffalo hunt. You noticed that the one whose spear hit […]
How a Yogi taught The Beatles to relax
In 1968 Herbert Benson was doing blood pressure experiments with monkeys at Harvard. 1968 was also the year that the […]