A brief history of journalism
In the beginning, journalists used to gather all the information and analyze all the data. Then, according to their experience, they discriminated the truth from the rumors, (more…)
In the beginning, journalists used to gather all the information and analyze all the data. Then, according to their experience, they discriminated the truth from the rumors, (more…)
My faithful (or stoical
) Zerebria readers already have a notice of my love story with Konrad Lorenz’s Civilized Man’s Eight Deadly Sins, documented here and here. The book, despite its age, is full of wow and aha moments, and, while reading it, (more…)
I’ll admit it: when it comes to videogames, I’m of the classic type. There’s nothing I like better than 90′s real time strategy and first person shooters. Most of the games that have come along later, in my view, have consisted only in (more…)
Richard Radio! Richard Radio! RRRRichard Radio!
Richard Radio broadcasting 24-7 from Richard’s head for its sole listener! (more…)
It sounds a bit like a joke, but world situation is so screwed up that there is nothing but great opportunities all around. The standards of waste in Western world are such, that (more…)
Have you ever noticed that, whenever Internet appears in the ‘traditional’ media it is always in relation to something gloomy? (more…)
What annoys and concerns me the most about the current situation is that, in a way, it is only an amplification of a previous state. Socially, I mean. Let me explain.
“What the world needs is…” A common sentence, with probably 6,500,000,000 different endings, one for each of the inhabitants of this troubled world of us. I recently had a ‘gestalt’ of my personal answer, one of those moments in which you see the whole picture as a whole (snap!). Here it goes for what is worth. (more…)
The house has been on fire ever since it was built. Maybe even while it was being built. It has become a tradition to think of the house in connection with flames, just like one cannot conceive a piano without keys or (more…)
I write this post after having heard this same cliché from the lips of several people, belonging to areas of the academic spectrum that range from illiteracy to PhD. In all cases, it exuded that feeling of filthy simplicity that I hate the most, and it’s my job to eradicate clichés and try to replace them with thinking. Here is the troublemaker: (more…)