When these words are pronounced by someone with extensive experience in the field of Medicine, who has been Head of the General and Digestive Surgery Service at the Bellvitge University Hospital (Barcelona), they deserve to be carefully listened to before falling into the temptation of relate them to mystery or conspiracy theories labels. There are more and more voices, like that of Dr. Manel Sans Segarra, who, from Medical Science itself, claim “to move from a materialistic monism to a reality with a certain component of philosophical idealism and transcendence that allows us to accept our existential reality” . Read More
«Evolving Means Developing Our Capacity to Love»
According to Vicent Guillem, popularizer and PhD in Chemical Sciences, while intelligence «is the development of mind», wisdom «is the development of love», for which reason «a truly wise person is one who has developed into feelings». Read More
'They Live'... and You Need Glasses
Sometimes a simple pair of sunglasses can be more than a pair of sunglasses… Read More
The dangerous turn of the starlings
Thousands of starlings can fly together and move as a single organism. The moment of making a turn is the weak point of the group, and the small reduction in coherence is used by the peregrine falcon to attack it. Read More
Love: medicine without dose or prescription
How a simple hug can be the starting point to feed the soul and repair the body… Read More
Charles Hatfield, The Rainmaker
While seeding clouds to artificially generate rain might be seen like a relatively recent topic, there are those who, more than a century ago, claimed to attract them with the same objective, and even their secret method ended up getting out of their hands… Read More
A heavy price for identifying Hitler
Being Hitler’s dentist’s assistant ended in disgrace for Käthe Heusermann, whose fate was never imagined by Russian Army interpreter Elena Rzhevskaya. Read More
«Kill them All. For the Lord Knows Who Are His»
The crusade undertaken by the Catholic Church against the Cathars in the 13th century meant not only the extermination of a heterodox current but also the genocide of a people. Read More
The painting that Hitler made during his escape
There are those who maintain that the Führer not only fled in a submarine from Spain to Patagonia after the fall of Berlin in 1945, but also he had descendants… Read More
Like a Fish to Water
The incredible story of Francisco de la Vega Casar, The Fish Man of Liérganes, and the tragic legend of Pesce Cola (Nicholas Fish).
When an 18th century Benedictine monk, himself Professor of Theology, not only echoes but ends up publishing essays in which he writes about the existence of fish men, rescuing in detail two specific cases between the 13th and 17th centuries, one of them in Cantabria and the other in Sicily, and also discarding any supernatural explanation for the phenomenon, it is worth at least taking a look at those texts where both events are collected and narrated. Read More
