The “resurrection” of the dire wolf
This column is about the “de-extincion” of dire wolf specie and the implications of this scientific goal.
The yawn
The ancient Romans used to say “Semel in anno licet insanire” which, freely translated, means “Everyone is allowed to do crazy things once a year”. That only time is, in my case, the Carnival, whose celebration continues today. In fact, even this (so-called) solemn columnist has decided to take the carnival party seriously and venture […]
PLANET WATER
This column is about the book “Agua” (water) by Dr. Hernán Vera Ruiz and some peculiar properties of the element of life
Galileo in Bolivia (English version)
A few days ago, I was contacted by a former student of mine, to ask me to support with a letter the initiative to include a book, preserved in the National Library and Archives of Bolivia in Sucre, in the “Memory of the World for Latin America and the Caribbean” program of UNESCO. This book […]
The obligation to align
At no time in history have plurality and tolerance of ideas and life choices been so appreciated and defended as in ours, yet no other era has been so polarized as to force everyone to align themselves with extreme positions. For the progressive and socialist left, liberals are all genocides, Zionists, exploiters and imperialists. In […]
An American Dream
On April 18, 1906, a magnitude 7.8 earthquake shook the city of San Francisco, causing deaths, devastation, looting, and burning of that city’s precarious wooden dwellings. For weeks, due to the chaos and fires that had neutralized the large safes, the city’s banks remained closed. All but one, the Bank of Italy, owned by Amadeo […]