About New Year’s resolutions
For those who are making New Year’s resolutions, I would like to point out a very common mistake that often leads to resignation to any improvement. Namely, that we focus…
On the rivalry between the right and the left
A few days ago I tried to define the “building right” as opposed to the right as a movement of shysters, profiteers and golden youth. If this were to happen,…
Pharmacy, evil, reason
We all hate pharmaceutical corporations. We can all easily agree on that. Including the author of this gloss. But what do we really blame them for? a) Driving the prices…
The golden age of free speech
In 1906, the Nobel Prize in Medicine was awarded jointly to the Italian Camilo Golgi and the Spaniard Ramon Cayal. The ceremony includes a lecture, so in this case there…
Fear of the mighty
“Of course, mobile operators and social network operators could support a non-profit that will claim that hours and hours spent with a smartphone are actually beneficial. Or bribe researchers and…
Syria as a prototype of Europe?
The environment of Muslim countries in North Africa and the Middle East tends to create groups that we might call criminal gangs, but in another era would have been called,…