Human Nature and Violence
Human Nature and Violence Many of the books that I read depress me. They tell me that human beings are violent by our very nature, that there is nothing we can do to avoid this tendency...
View ArticleWhen Even Amazing Parenting Isn’t Enough: Are Some Kids Doomed To Be Jerks No...
Currently ranked as the most e-mailed article in New York Times at this moment, "Accepting That Good Parents May Plant Bad Seeds" made for a melancholy read this morning. Citing anecdotal examples of...
View ArticleHow Men Can Be Wise About Women
As a sign, perhaps, that society does move forward, nobody uses the phrase "the war between the sexes" anymore. Instead, we are flooded with scientific data about why men and women think and behave...
View ArticleDeepak Chopra: War of the Worldviews — A Statement On Science And Spirituality
by Deepak Chopra and Leonard Mlodinow As we travel around the country promoting our new book, War of the Worldviews: Science vs. Spirituality, people are asking about the major points of contention...
View ArticleDeepak Chopra: The Higher Health — A New Map for Prevention
Wellness seems to have reached a plateau in America and other wealthy industrialized countries. The information about how to prevent many kinds of lifestyle disorders, including heart disease and type...
View ArticleGenetic Testing: Should You Be Tested?
When I was 27 years old, five words changed my life: “Positive for a deleterious mutation.” I hadn’t thought much about taking the “simple blood test” to find out if I carried mutations for the...
View Article3 Ways to Overcome Anger’s Pervasive Nature
If you have a short fuse, there might be some scientific basis for it. Scientists have discovered a genetic variation in some people that makes them more prone to risk taking, aggression and violence....
View ArticleDeepak Chopra: Thinking Outside the (Skull) Box (Part 10)
Click here to read Part 9! By Deepak Chopra, M.D., Menas C. Kafatos, Ph.D., P. Murali Doraiswamy, MBBS, Rudolph E. Tanzi, Ph.D., Neil Theise, MD So your genome – the sum total of your genetic...
View ArticleWant to Lead a Happier Life? Talk to Your Genes
By Deepak Chopra, MD, Rudolph E. Tanzi, PhD Genetics may be on the verge of solving a very complex question in a revolutionary but quite simple way. The question is, What does it take to be happy? The...
View ArticleThe Wanderlust Gene: Why Some People Are Born to Travel
If you look at history and the human tendency to travel to far-flung areas of the planet, you may begin to suspect there’s something in the human genome that causes this compulsive wandering behavior....
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