Gabor Mate is a doctor and best-selling author. His totems are Gautama Buddha, Yeshua (aka Jesus), Karl Marx, Albert Einstein and Sigmund Freud. Beethoven's in there too.

Certain parts of your brain become less active, with interesting results.

What happens when you fill a room with some of the very best scientists, philosophers, sociologists, and mystics to have them ask the collective question, What does it mean to be human? Jeff Bellsey reports from the Being Human 2012 conference.

What exactly is going on in our heads when we give in to a craving?

What does it mean to actually "think"? How often do we do it?

A short summary of something this big bad corp is trying to splooge into our bodies.

A recent documentary followed Dr. Gabor Mate's explorations of ayahuasca as a therapeutic tool, and featured research on the neurochemistry involved.

Readers submit questions about the science of everyday life. Other readers answer them.

How filthy is your apartment, or the food you eat? How clean does cleaning your place make it? Do you really want to know?

A short except from the book Touching: the Human Significance of the Skin, by Ashley Montagu, listing twenty separate and distinct functions of human skin.

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