Mitochondria are a wonderful present from your mother – these tiny organelles are inherited from the ova only, carrying their own DNA and providing you with the energy it takes to breathe, to keep your internal environment constant and to read this blog post at the same time! Authored by the British biochemist Nick Lane,…… Continue reading Power, Sex, Suicide
Author: Anca Ioviţă
Reading vs. experience: which one is better?
Many of my skills came from reading, so why does this activity have such a bad reputation as not being “the right way” to learn a skill? A book is condensed experience – basically a conventional name we give to our past mistakes. Any skill is learnt by daily practicing it – and as long…… Continue reading Reading vs. experience: which one is better?
On Peruvian mummies
Perusing the bookshelves of my local public library, I stepped upon an old non-fiction book originally published in 1960 on one of my favorite subjects: Peruvian mummies. A little bit too descriptive for my tastes regarding the history of the pre-Incan Peruvian populations and their mythology, I expected lots more referenced details on the mummification…… Continue reading On Peruvian mummies
Great places to read
A reader reads. Yet depending on the book I am reading and the mood I am in, I don’t just read. The location and the content of the book should harmonize like yin and yang. A difficult (emotional) book requires unbroken silence; a light book or a rigid course for the next exam demands some…… Continue reading Great places to read