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Deep Space Nine and our tiny companions – thoughts about identity and our gut microbiota

Deep Space Nine is not that far away: our identity is partly given by our tiny symbionts. Our gut microbiota is as unique as our fingerprints. It influences an enormous variety of physiological functions, including mood (and, why not, cognition?). For the non-nerds, Deep Space Nine is the last Star Trek series, known as “the […]

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Powerlifting Watch: the need for an ecumenical space for a multi-federation Sport

  Powerlifting is a multi-federation sport. That means it has multiple governing or sanctioning bodies. While this is an inevitable trend (and, as I argue, a healthy one) in non-Olympic sports, the existence of a neutral, ecumenical space is important to preserve the sport itself, to promote critical decision making by members of the community

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Surviving suicide, rape and abuse through powerlifting: my story

On October 5, 2012, Gene and Ame Rychlak created the campaign “Power Against Violence and Abuse”. Their mission is as simple and complex as powerlifting itself: to confront all forms of abuse. Abuse, by definition, is an act of violence that takes place between asymmetric players: an adult against a child or an elderly person,

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Wish list

Dear Santa: I’ve been as good a girl as it may be asked of me. So this is my wish list: Some logic. I will be grateful with just a little.  I know it is impossible to ask for honesty in human relations – that’s way too much even for imaginary creatures such as yourself or

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