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“I only do the math”, left brain exposes

“I am through with it. I wonder which sick minds could conceive that I am in charge of this world, and how such a nonsensical idea can have become so popular. I cannot stand the pressure anymore, (more…)


The black area round our vision

Life is amazing when you think of it. Take what you’re really seeing right now, for instance. Try to abandon frontal vision for a minute and embrace the whole picture. You’ll have noticed that, above what you’re seeing, starts a black area, the place where (more…)


Mind saliva

Behaviorism (brief reminder-please skip the whole paragraph if you know about the term): the Russian Ivan Pavlov made a famous experiment. First he showed a piece of meat to a group of dogs while (more…)


Those “left brain-ish” scripts…

There is nothing more loathsome in films than those stories where everything intends to be “clockwork-like”, and characters are just puppets to make the story happen. (more…)


On being inter-connective

It always happens as a surprising yet pleasant accident: I suddenly find myself interconnecting fields that have very little or nothing in common. I cheer up my 80 years old aunt using (more…)


Is the Internet a lonely place?

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Here’s an original suggestion for thinking outside the box: how about using a different search engine? It makes all sense of the world, from the point of view of a computer being an extension of one’s own brain. O.K., so Google is the best one, its search algorithms combine (more…)


Polymath, huh?

I’ve recently come to know that there is a name for what I do, which is always a very (more…)


More about being absolutely positive

Don’t you even think for a moment that I have given up my practice of writing down the successes of the day. In fact, it gets (more…)


What’s so charming about computing?

The advent of Internet, the changes it has and is forcing in a very short little time, has been a shock. A positive one, maybe, but still a shock. It is not new, though: I still remember my first toying around with an 8-bit computer, in those days when computers were isolated one from another. That tiny fever was the seed of what we have now. But what is it that keeps us so hooked on computers? And where to set the limit between proper use and orgy?

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A new way of being positive

The other day I was having a walk in the street when I started to experience very disgusting feelings. During the previous couple of days or so, I had been able to calm down those negative feelings by (more…)