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Do we really need to learn all that in school?

Is academic success important for later in life? Recently, I came across a little video that aimed to highlight why parents should not put too much pressure int...

Helping our own bodies to fight cancer: A new anti-cancer vaccine that might put an end to it.

Tired of hearing about a “potential cure for cancer” every other week only to see no follow up? Me too. Every now and then emerges a new cancer fighting strateg...

Training without the gi in Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu: Let's roll! (my first DTube video)

Were you curious about what my rolls look like? Today is your lucky day: you get to see me awkwardly spazzing out during a couple minutes trying to secure a sub...

Reliable information or manipulative content? Spot the difference!

Nowadays it seems that a decadent educational system, decreasing attention spans, and the spread of social media have conflated to create a perfect cocktail of ...

Alkaline diets – Can you really affect the pH balance of your body with what you eat, to get rid of disease? Do they work at all?

“Become healthier” is probably near the top of almost everyone’s New Year’s resolutions. This might bring you to take a quick look into diets and nutritional ad...

The perks and downsides of being a woman in Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu

I am not one to see life through a “woman lens”. Some people seem to do it all the time, filtering their individual identity throughout their gender, adjusting ...

An eye condition that I didn’t even know existed: Let me introduce you to Pinguecula/Pterygium

Have you looked at your eyes closely? You might be as surprised as I was. It all started a couple of months ago. I was constantly having a feeling of very dry e...

The biology of the possible: what artificial life can teach us about the nature of living systems

Sometimes the findings made in molecular biology seem like countless, tiny pieces of an enormous jigsaw puzzle: some of them we have managed to connect together...

Gymetiquette for New Year's Resolutionists – A guide to effective and considerate gym workouts

Hello fellow Steemiacs,  I wish you all a Happy New Year!     If one of your new year's resolutions was to sign up to a gym and get that roc...

Your Steemit achievements and resolutions: What does 2018 hold?

In 2017, I achieved (almost) all of my Steemit goals: reached reputation 60+, got consistently good payouts for most of my content, accrued over 1,000 Steem Pow...

Seven Day B&W Challenge - Day Seven: Where it all began

Look closer, and you might find a treasure right in front of you... The Challenge These are the rules to be taken into account: • Seven black and white images t...

Seven Day B&W Challenge - Day Six: I'm addicted to you

Could also be titled "Jim Jarmusch meets typical Instagram shot" The Challenge These are the rules to be taken into account: • Seven black and white images that...

Seven Day B&W Challenge - Day Five: Familiar view

Who could have thought something so exciting could also be so terribly boring sometimes? The Challenge These are the rules to be taken into account: • Seven bla...

Interlude: Merry tropical Christmas from Mexico! (Photo-blog with curiosities)

Once more, I have landed in Xalapa, land of the jalapeno pepper. As you might have noticed, I am keeping the content light this week here in my blog since I hav...

Seven Day B&W Challenge - Day Four: The old and the new

If you love something, never abandon it... The Challenge These are the rules to be taken into account: • Seven black and white images that represent an aspect o...

Seven Day B&W Challenge - Day Three: Holy mess

Another day, another opportunity to capture the peculiar way of life around me... The Challenge These are the rules to be taken into account: • Seven black and ...

Seven Day B&W Challenge - Day Two: Heritage

The Challenge These are the rules to be taken into account: • Seven black and white images that represent an aspect of your life. • Present one image every day ...

Seven Day B&W Challenge - Day One: Mexican afterlife

Can you make the quotidian interesting? To make someone else an eager spectator of a glimpse of life through your eyes? That seems to be the spirit behind the S...

My adventurer grandfather, and how he tried to turn me into Lara Croft

My grandfather is a rather unconventional person. A mix between Mexican Indiana Jones and some sort of low key James Bond, he has certainly accrued a wealth of ...

What is life, anyway?

The most fundamental question that, surprisingly, does not have a definitive answer. Biologists and philosophers, from Aristotle to Oparin, have made numerous a...