Year 1947. A wooden raft and five expedition members. The challenge: to cover a distance of approximately 8,000 kilometers crossing the waters of the Pacific Ocean to demonstrate migratory movements in not so remote times aboard a piece of wood. What for some was a real recklessness, for others, and especially for the protagonists, it was nothing more than testing, even putting their own lives at risk, their desire for knowledge and their adventurous spirit. Read More
Aboard the Bounty
A hellish journey to paradise.
A long and hard journey, a ruthless Captain with his crew and an Eden destination. It is the tragic story of the voyage aboard a ship that witnessed not only cruelty on deck, but also human misery on dry land. Does a penchant for conflict and violence inhabit our nature? Read More
Lindbergh's Flight
Lindbergh’s flight was not one more, since it was quite a feat considering the context and conditions of the time in which it occurred. No doubt a combination of youth, bravery, skill and intelligence led Charles Lindbergh to, as some would say, cross the pond for the first time on a non-stop flight. Read More
The Flying Dutchman
The sad fame of the Cape of Good Hope, renamed the Cape of Storms, the frightened idea that people had of solitary voyages in unknown seas and a certain dose of superstition, which branded as sacrilegious the desire to look beyond what is known, fostered various legends, the best known of which, and of which there are different literary versions, is that of The Flying Dutchman. Read More
Encyclopedia, a Historic Milestone
From the darkness of the Ancien Régime to the luminous freedom of «being able to do everything that does not harm another».
In the mid-eighteenth century, the French people guided the spiritual forces of humanity, because they converted certain ideas, the basis of the modern political world, into the common heritage of all men and made them advance, more than any other country, along the paths of civil liberty. Read More
Invisible Ammunition in the I Global War
In the First Global War against the human soul the enemy has replaced its heavy artillery by propaganda and manipulation… Apparently harmless ammunition, but with an effective penetration and destruction capacity… Read More
Mr. Pill and the Hippocratic Oath
Doctor Harmmert consulted at the only health center in his hometown, Preskreeps Town, a place where he was considered a kind of protective god on Earth who had a remedy for everything and everyone, even those rude and ungrateful neighbors who suspected Angel Face’s professionalism and diligence… Read More
Face to Face with John Travolta...
... on a grease gray day.
What could happen if you find yourself standing next to the pump, pouring gas into your car and, suddenly, you realize that a few meters from you, the protagonist of Grease or Saturday Night Fever, is doing the same? Read More
Leave the Ventana Open...
... and tell me si debo ir o quedarme.
An anecdote about the mythical British band The Clash takes us to a night out in university Salamanca at the beginning of the 90s. Two friends, a place, a bar, a few drinks, a friendship… and an enigmatic song… Read More
Slap at the Wrong Time
He had started at school like all the children of his generation, or almost all; that is, very innocent and with very good intentions. The school would be his second home; the teachers, his second parents. Or that was what he had been told. And he, naturally, trusted. Read More
Philosophy Academy
Dressed in gleaming pure white robes, brown leather sandals, rainbow-colored caps and green silicone bracelets emblazoned with environmentalist slogans -such as ‘Nuclear holocaust can wait’ or ‘For a planet free of enriched plutonium’-, Seneca, Plato, Aristotle and Pythagoras maintained a calm and useless conversation whose epicenter was none other than the concept of friendship. Read More
Straight: Talks in One Shot
Gene and Walter just saw each other when they met at the only bar in town, where they used to enjoy fluid, animated and transcendental conversations that satisfied their curiosity and fed their intellect. Read More
