Photo: AWP76 on ShutterstockJuan VilloroIn 2009, before the Champions League final, Pep Guardiola had his players watch scenes from the movie Gladiator to motivate them. They were playing in Rome. Barça triumphed in a coliseum reminiscent of the enslaved...
Photo: ShutterstockJuan VilloroThere were times when people relied on myths and cosmogonies to explain the budding of a flower or a person's character. Superstition and religions reassure without needing to be proven. In this context, harmony depends on not...
Image: happyphoton on iStockJuan VilloroI met Uruguayan sociologist Gabriel Gatti in the fall of 2019 at Stanford University. It was my first contact with someone who, interestingly enough, is dedicated to studying the disappearance of people. We tuned in...
Photo: Christian Krumbholz on PexelsJuan VilloroIn childhood, you adopt pets that you will not take care of. A rabbit, a goose, or even a water snake awaken in you, enthusiasms that will disappear with the obligations of feeding these...
Photo: gettyimages on bbc.comJuan VilloroAfter amassing an astronomical fortune, Elon Musk considered it logical to go to outer space. Owner of SpaceX, the hyper-billionaire born in South Africa in 1971, reactivated the space race when the launch pads at...
Photo: Ricardo Cruz on UnsplashJuan VilloroOn September 11, Sebastián Núñez Pérez and José Antonio Sánchez Juárez, members of the Good Government Council of the Caracol "Floreciendo la Semilla Rebelde"( Flourishing the Rebel Seed), were on their way to San...
Photo: Andrea Piacquadio on PexelsJuan VilloroEvery month, the anthropologist Natalia Mendoza publishes a splendid column in Nexos Magazine in which she analyzes new forms of behavior and the ethical and cultural consequences of contemporary events. In her January 2021...