Juan Villoro Perfumes include stinky ingredients, metaphysics is meaningless without physics, and certain people are contradictory. The elusive Michel de Nostradamus was born in 1503 in Provence. He was one of the brightest and darkest figures of his century. An event defined his fate: the …
Following his six decades tradition, last night Warren Buffett published his Letter to Shareholders, full of wisdom and anecdotes, besides relevant data on the conglomerate’s performance as a whole and of its components. Since it is a must-read for investors worldwide, we publish it in …
Robert L. Kuhn’s Closer to Truth Series presents some enlightened answers in this episode. Does ordinary stuff have mysterious properties? Take anything; find all its parts; combine those parts any way you like. What do you expect? Nothing at all like what you have. It’s …
Hallelujah by G. F. Händel performed like never before. More than 350 voices united, virtually, in a great song of optimism. Suggested by LBTK
March 25, 421 – 2021 🎂 Happy 1600th birthday Venice! Today we celebrate the 1600th anniversary of the foundation of the City of #Venezia 🔸 A city that, since the time of the Serenissima Republic, has been da Mar and Stato da Tera and which, …
Juan Villoro Vicente Rojo was seven years old when his mother had to sell the piano. His father, who belonged to the Communist Party, had gone into exile in Mexico after the Civil War, and it would take Vicente ten years to reach him. In …
Juan Villoro In December 2020, I spoke with Irene Vallejo in a virtual meeting organized by the Foundation for Mexican Letters. Suggestively, the Aragonese philologist took up a major theme of her book El infinito en un junco (The infinite in a reed): the decisive …
Princeton Bendheim Center for Finance On Friday, February 12, Paul Krugman and Lawrence H. Summers joined Markus’ Academy for a conversation. Krugman is Professor Emeritus at Princeton University, the Distinguished Professor of Economics at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York, a …
Photo: Mulyadi on Unsplash Juan Villoro The unusual Germany creates the impression that more words are born there than people and that more people are baptized in dictionaries than in churches. Image: Raphael Schaller on Unsplash In 1980, Günter Grass published his novel Births in the Head, or Germans Are Dying. There he speculated on …
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