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Human beings are philosophical animals. As human beings, inquiry is the foundations of any knowledge we pursue. We wonder, ask questions and the mere fact of trying to answer them brings us innovation. And we wonder more and ask more questions to finally find that we might not even be doing it enough.

During my journey into the ‘Scientific American’ wonderland, I discovered that there was so much to know and so much yet to be discovered. So many questions arose from my readings and it’s my great pleasure to share it today (we’ll go for a bullet point format, shall we?)

·       -  How does the human brain works? I mean REALLY! How do we explain emotions, free will, crime and abuse?

·       -  How do we fairly determine intelligence? Are IQ and EQ enough to do so? What do they even REALLY tell?

·        -  Should we condemn a sociopath because he was born with a tendency to hurt? Isn’t that just another disability?

·         -Why do we yawn and how is it contagious?

·        -  What makes human beings always go for the irrational decision in Game theory’s models?

To conclude I want to stress that our generation should feel extremely lucky. Knowledge has basically been offered to us. In the past, if someone had a question, it was up to that person to get answers. Today we can just type in our Google search boxes ‘apple’ and not only would we get several definitions of the word, but we’d even get  the symbolism behind it and recipes with it!

Let’s all embrace being part of the ‘microwave generation: everything here and now!’