Ethics and reasonableness or how to live creatively

Eat to Live or Live to Eat?

Life in most of the world’s urban societies is increasingly sedentary. People neither toil in the fields nor hunt for food. With little need for mobility, there’s easy access to plenty of food that is loaded with sugar, fat, preservatives, and calories. The so-called ‘‘western diet’’ has brought with it a host of metabolic problems that we have probably never encountered in our evolutionary his...

How to integrate ethics, politics and innovation

How to live without BRCA1

C ancer cells are resourceful survivors with plenty of tricks for staying alive. Grotsky et al. uncover one of these stratagems, showing how cells lacking the tumor suppressor BRCA1 resume one form of DNA repair, sparing themselves from stagnation or death (1). BRCA1 helps to mend double-strand DNA breaks by promoting homologous recombination (2). Loss of the BRCA1 protein appears to boost abno...

How to Live 100 Years

It is universally agreed, that custom, in time, becomes a second nature, forcing men to use that, whether good or bad, to which they have been habituated; in fact, we see habit, in many instances, gain the ascendancy over reason. This is so undeniably true, that virtuous men, by keeping company with wicked, often fall into the same vicious course of life. Seeing and considering all this, I have...

How (and How Not) to Do Legal Ethics