Human language might have been the secret of our evolutionary success. It can also be a destruction tool.

Good stories resonate with us because they represent a universal myth engraved in our psyche. The Hero’s Journey is not just a tale.

Humans need a minimum amount of good, long, and stable relationships. Belongingness is essential for our well-being, our happiness. But navigating large complex social networks is…challenging.

Imagination and perception are two directions of the same flow process. Combined, they create our realities.

The happiness paradox: We seek to be happy. But we also decide what makes us happy.

The stuff that makes the world is a composition of particles (or waves) and forces, perhaps space between them. Classic and contemporary physics help us making refined measurements and predictions, but the true nature of reality remains a mystery.

Past experiences become simplified scripts—memories, the raw data to re-write the narratives driving humans through life.

Good ideas are well-connected dots.

Consciousness? The subjective experience (awareness) of the mind and the world. Self-awareness? One’s recognition of such consciousness. The world from someone else’s point of view? Hard to tell.

A good life ticket demands that we spend a third of our life in Morpheus’ world.

If a tree falls in a forest and no one is around to hear it, does it make a sound?

The human species is evolving. What it is evolving into is up to us.

The origins of the modern human body are still obscure. Something (more or less) like it appeared around 2 million years ago. Or perhaps it was the end product of a design that started long before.

We have a body. We also have a mind. Right?

Having sex is part of the traditional way of making babies. Soon it could be just an extracurricular activity.

While paying a visit to her friend, she noticed a skull sitting over the fireplace. It was 1924, and Josephine Salmons had just set up in motion a fast chain of events leading to one of the most remarkable discoveries in human evolution.

“People like us, who believe in physics, know that the distinction between past, present, and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.”

Human evolution led to technology. Technological evolution is now leading human evolution, but where?

All living forms on Earth are related. We can ask this same question to any other human, to our pets, even to our favorite tree in the park: When did you and I last shared an ancestor?

All humans belong to the same species: Homo sapiens. We are uniquely different from other animals. Are we “special”?