Image: Wildpixel on iStockLuis Rubio The agricultural worker at the end of the XVIII century was suddenly displaced by the appearance of the steam engine that substituted for, says Gertrude Himmelfarb,* an average of 50 employees in one...
Image: shared on WhatsappManuel Suárez Mier †*This was originally published on May 29, 2019, by the Asia Times.This is the first of a two-part series on Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s first six months in office.Just as the...
https://youtu.be/K7QBnuF6dHgWorld Science Festival#BrianGreene #Neuroscience #BrainHow does the brain retrieve memories, articulate words, and focus attention? Recent advances have provided a newfound ability to decipher, sharpen, and adjust electrical signals relevant to speech, attention, memory and emotion. Join Brian Greene...
Photo: Annie Spratt on Unsplash Juan VilloroIn 1991, Umberto Eco gave a lecture at the Biblioteca Nazionale Braidense under the suggestive title "The vegetable memory". He recalled that the first forms of writing were mineral: stone friezes and clay...
Photo: Jonathan Borba on PexelsAntonio NavalónFor two hundred years, when popular wisdom spoke of Mexico's intrinsic and genetic misfortunes, people said, "poor Mexico, so close to the United States and so far from God". Thanks to Andrés Manuel López,...
Image: Nosedog77 on iStockLuis RubioThe similarity between debates on the future is surprising in the United States and Mexico. Very distinct societies, they are confronting situations that are not entirely different, but their circumstances are indeed radically so, which...
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