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
'They Live'... and You Need Glasses
Sometimes a simple pair of sunglasses can be more than a pair of sunglasses… 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
The Constitution, the Law of Laws
The Constitutional laws, or State Constitution, are those that constitute, institute or define the political organization of the State. These are Fundamental Laws of superior rank that limit the action of power. The leaders who establish the rules or who contribute to establish them can get rid of them more easily. When it is applied and it is a true Constitution-law, its application is not as rigorous as that of the Civil Code or that of the Penal Code. 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
«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
«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
The «Roof of the World»
The Himalayan mountain chain extends between the courses of the Indus and Brahmaputra rivers, in a length of 2,400 km and with a width that oscillates between 160 and 240 km. It is the only one in the world that has several peaks with an altitude higher than 8,000 meters. The highest of them is Mount Everest (8,848 meters). Read More
Political Parties or the Art of Getting the Elected Away From Their Voters
An essential institution of liberal regimes are political parties, which are born and develop at the same time as elections and representation. At first they appear as electoral commissions in charge of raising funds for the campaign and obtaining important patronages for its candidate. It’s also observed the birth, in the assemblies, of parliamentary groups of deputies of the same tendency for a common action, and that in a natural way produces the federation of their basic commissions, which originate the parties. Read More
«Starting a war is not done with just five missiles»
These are the words of Stanislav Petrov, a lieutenant colonel in the army of the former USSR, who on September 26, 1983 had a decisive decision in his hands, thanks to which possibly, or almost certainly, you can now be reading the lead of this article. Read More
'Westworld': Everything under Control?
Michael Crichton already warned us half a century ago, through cinema, of the dangers that lie in wait for human beings when they play at being gods, unleashing their creative hand. Westworld (1973), apart from being the first film to introduce computer-generated images in two dimensions, already advanced us in a certain way the concept of artificial intelligence… and its possible consequences. Read More
