Humans take over 8 million breaths a year. And it happens without us thinking about it. Our body does it automatically. And thank god it does, if the flow of oxygen into our body would be cut off, it stops functioning after only 3 minutes. Every single cell in our…

Born in 1926, in Manchester Connecticut, Henry Molaison, unintentionally became one of the most important people in the discovery of how memories are made in our brain. He was never a doctor nor a scientist. The only thing he did was crash with his bicycle. From his crash onwards his…

Meet Jody, a now happy teenage girl. She plays around in the garden, goes to soccer practice just like any of our peers. While it is easy now, this wasn’t always the case. The truth is, she has undergone one of the riskiest life saving brain surgeries ever performed on…

Imagine this situation. It is the evening before the big final of the NCAA March Madness basketball tournament. The 2 stars of both teams each walk up to their coach. A bit anxious but most of all disappointed, While looking at their feet, they both tell their coach they cannot…

From 65K luxurious retreats to going cold turkey after that drunken night out too many, there are plenty of options available to fight an addiction, but one thing is a common among all these option: a very low success rate. 85% of the people who kicked a drug addiction return…

“Don’t fear death. Fear a mediocre life.” @MODERNMAN, Twitter “Sometimes all you need is peace, no phone, no people, just peace.” @ThinkingDeep_, Twitter Twitter has become the new Agora where wise men come to share their wisdom to all that care to listen. On all life’s aspects there is something…

With sweaty palms I unlocked my phone and put it to my ear. I heard the typical dial tone, and hoped that was all I was going to hear. “Hey, how are you doing son?” Damn it, he picked up. I put on that typical kind voice every child does…

The joke I often make about chasing success in life, is that it gave me the well deserved rest I needed. Not in the form of a holiday but in the form of a burn out. I feel like Chandler could have made this joke. Ten years ago, fresh out…

Humans are nomads at the core of their being. We can’t stay at one place for too long, as we must do it in order to survive tens of thousands of years ago. This urge still flows strongly in us. Wanderlust, they call it. I have moved around quite a…