Some years ago, I read the sad story of a moose that, somewhere in Canada, was struck and killed by a train. According to the report, the moose was running along the tracks in the same direction as the train and, despite the engineer’s desperate attempts to avoid the collision, the animal never step…
Blog posts August 2025
What Have We Polluted That Once Healed Us but Now Makes Us Sick?
I recently came across a short and seemingly irrelevant story, yet it stayed with me and made me think more deeply than I expected.
The story was about a little dog somewhere in the United States that was feeling unwell. Instinctively, when his owners took him for a walk, he began to eat grass—a …
Viroids, Imposters, and the Illusion of Complete Knowledge
The recent discovery of microscopic entities known as “viroids” (or “obelisks”) living in the human mouth made me reflect on how much we still don’t know about our own bodies, even though we often boast that we already know everything—or at least most of what there is to know.
According to a …
Viroids, Imposters, and the Illusion of Complete Knowledge
The recent discovery of microscopic entities known as “viroids” (or “obelisks”) living in the human mouth made me reflect on how much we still don’t know about our own bodies, even though we often boast that we already know everything—or at least most of what there is to know.
According to a …
How Many Am I in a Plurality of Realities Filled with “Non-Things”?
Contemporary German philosopher Richard David Precht stated some years ago that the question is no longer “Who am I?” but rather “How many am I?”—a statement that, much like Walt Whitman’s “I am large, I contain multitudes,” does not point to any pathological condition needing treatment, but rat…
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