The Science of the Blob
Introduction In recent decades, the blob called Physarum polycephalum has aroused the interest of scientists. Why? It has surprised scientists
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Author: Joaquín Vidal
Seven Paradoxes About Time Travel
Time travel has fascinated thinkers and generated several works of science fiction, philosophical essays, and scientific theories.
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Neuroscience of Interoception
Interoception provides information about our body and emotional states.
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Are Cosmic Spherules Traces of an Extraterrestrial Spacecraft?
A few days ago, Avi Loeb surprised us with the discovery of the traces of a mysterious meteorite called IM1.
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The Hammer of Thor dual power and Artificial Intelligence
In a country far, far away, there was once a group of wise men who had developed the most powerful hammer ever known. They called it the Hammer of Thor.
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The India Syndrome
Although the India Syndrome has not yet been recognized in the manuals of psychiatric disorders, the fact is that for some years now delirium has been frequently observed in Western travelers (North Americans and Europeans) when traveling to the Indian subcontinent. The first to publish on this fact was the French psychiatrist Regis Airault, who observed and described it while working at the French Consulate in Mumbai.
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Technosignatures can help us in the search for intelligent life
The search for intelligent life outside the planet Earth began in the sixties of the last century, when sufficient technology was developed to be able to send and receive signals at a distance beyond the solar system.
From this moment on, an interest was generated in the scientific community to find biological and technological markers that could give us information about other intelligent life forms unknown until now.
“Greed” (1924) – Movie review
The American silent film Greed (1924) was directed by Erich von Stroheim, and is based on the novel McTeague, written by Frank Norris in 1899.
It is a masterful analysis of the different types of greed. This is one of the seven deadly sins or human faults of the Catholic Church, along with anger, gluttony, pride, lust, laziness and envy. All these deviations of human behavior also appear, to a greater or lesser extent, in some of the characters in the film.
Does it Make Sense to Look for Intelligent Life?
Human beings have a natural tendency to communicate and to seek new challenges, new frontiers and new ways of interacting with the environment.
For 80 years, the SETI program has been engaged in an active search for intelligent life. So far, this search has not yielded any results, so it is legitimate to ask whether this search makes sense.
“Green Book” (2018) – Movie review
The film Green Book was launched in 2018 under the direction of Peter Farrelly. It is a film based on real events, which tells the story of a concert tour made by the pianist Don Shirley, along with his driver and bodyguard Tony Vallelonga, through the South of the United States, in the decade of the 60s of the last century. The film is named after a guidebook (The Negro Motorist Green Book) which was used at the time to find out where African Americans could stay when traveling.
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