This is Your Brain on Bliss

by Matthieu Ricard
posted Oct 31, 2008
After 2,000 years of practice, Buddhist monks know that one secret to happiness is simply to put your mind to it.
What is happiness, and how can we achieve it?
Happiness can’t be reduced to a few agreeable sensations. Rather, it is a way of being and of experiencing the world—a profound [...]

Why Do Women Have Sex?

Two University of Texas researchers wanted to dig deeper to find out what specifically drives women to go to bed with their partners. They conducted an online survey of more than 1,000 women ages 18 to 87 and found, to their surprise, that women aren’t all that different from men.