An old myth says that when the Greeks went to Troy to fight the famous war, one of them, Philoctetes, was abandoned by his companions on a desert island because, after being bitten by a snake, his screams and his stench became intolerable for the other soldiers. But that's not the end of the story.
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Our universe is not the first one, the only one, or the last one
Recently, the scientist Roger Penrose, winner of a Nobel Prize, indicated that our universe arose from a previous universe and that some of the "ruins" of that other universe still exist in ours. In other words, our universe is neither the first nor the only one, nor will it be the last.
Almost i…
Do “coincidences” reveal new knowledge if properly understood?
Recently, through social networks, I received a video sent by someone I do not know, indicating that the topic would be of interest to me. Basically, it was a recording made 15 years ago in Peru in which a "prophetess" explained that at this time a "great disease" would begin in the world's water.
…Just because you don’t see it doesn’t mean it doesn’t exist
At two months of birth, babies can only see up to 10 inches in front of their eyes and still cannot focus on objects or distinguish colors. They instinctively recognize their mother's face and not much else. But that doesn’t mean that there is no world beyond what babies can see.
By six months,…
Please, stop telling me you don’t know how to do it!
Artificial brains, quantum computers, and commercial space travel are already a reality. But it is a reality that many people are unaware of and they do not connect with it because, while the studies of parallel and multidimensional universes are increasingly deep and successful, many do not know ho…
What excuses are you using to avoid facing the new future?
I recently had a short conversation with a well-known person in the community with excellent professional training. The theme was the new future created not only by the pandemic, but also by the collapse of the Eurocentric project of modernity. This person told me, however, that she had no time for …
Even with a map in your hand, you may be following the wrong way
I recently came to a park south of the city where I live, and shortly after starting to walk on the trail that begins at the park gate, I came across a young couple walking in the opposite direction. Just when we crossed, the man, map in hand, said to his companion: "We walked so much that we must b…
It is all our fault for not listening to the wise people or to history
In the context of the pandemic, health professionals repeatedly expressed their advice about how to avoid new infections and stay healthy both mentally and physically in the middle of a quarantine and an uncertainty future that affects us all, sometimes in unexpected ways.
Among those professiona…
Many prepare for life, but then they never take the first step
In recent walks through a park near my house that offers trails between forests and streams, on several occasions I saw families and groups of people perfectly prepared for the walk, but then, for different reasons, they did not even take the first step. Many people live life that way.
In one cas…
What we do not see or know may be what is deeply important
We know what The Little Prince taught: The essential is invisible to the eyes. But from knowing that truth to living and practicing it there is a great distance that, due to its size, leads us to accept as “essential” things that are not and does not allow us to see the fundamental and truly essen…
Is the Solar System a living and evolving being?
A recent image released by NASA shows that the Solar System, when the magnetic field generated by the Sun and solar winds are taken into account, looks like a creature in gestation, something that has not gone unnoticed by those who argue that the System Solar is part of a living and evolving univer…
How much longer, God, how much longer?
Years ago, when my children were young, we went with the family on a trip to the mountains. On the way there, my children frequently repeated a single question: How much longer before we get there? And at the end of the day, on the way home, they again repeated the same question. It is the question …
Neither entrepreneurs nor business leaners, but just techno-greedy people
In 2003, in the third edition of his book Entrepreneurship, in addition to speaking for the first time about electronic commerce, Marc Dollinger updated his definition of "entrepreneur" to describe the person or group of people capable of "creating and innovating" for economic purposes "in condition…
We have separated ourselves from everything and everyone, even from ourselves
I recently learned that in Bali, Indonesia, people's names include eight components that, for those who understand them, reveal numerous details about the family and the history of the bearer of that name. We, meanwhile, have only a first and last name, and in many cases our identity comes down to a…
On this side of the galactic wall, dialogue has been infantilized and denial globalized
NASA recently announced that, hidden behind the Milky Way, there is a “galactic wall” of astonishing proportions and that, despite its immense size, we were only now able to discover because our own galaxy covered it up. I wonder then what is hidden that we still cannot see behind the galactic wall.…
There are plenty of themes and ideas, but there is a lack of open hearts and minds
I must confess that, almost two decades after deciding to write a weekly commentary (always exactly 500 words), I am not short of topics or ideas to explore or share. But the growing disappointment at seeing the loss of our capacity for dialogue and introspection makes me wonder whether to continue …
When we lose the ability to dialogue, we lose everything
I recently read the story of a California attorney who reported corruption cases to the office of certain District Attorney. In response, the accused prosecutor told the if he attorney that if he (the attorney) did not like the profession, he should resign and pursue something else.
That's one of…
Reason without wisdom becomes the unreason of fanaticism
A few days ago, on June 18, 2020, the United States Supreme Court ruled on the continuation of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program. Leaving aside all political issues, this ruling includes an element that must be highlighted and analyzed: the separation between wisdom and reaso…
Appearances are deceiving ... and everything is just an appearance
Many years ago, when I was still a child in primary school, the teacher asked us to draw a picture. A classmate, Guillermo, completed the task and handed it to the teacher and (as I recall) she said it was "a very poor drawing." Guillermo then took two coins, glued them on the drawing and returned i…
Our destructive power has already far exceeded our maturity level
On May 4, 2020, a five-year-old boy living in Orem, Utah (United States) decided to do what every child of that age does when the mother refuses to buy him a real Lamborghini: he got into the family truck and started driving down the highway to head to California to buy that expensive vehicle in per…
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