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It looked like a good idea at first, but I hesitated a lot and in the end I did not add the following quote by Charles Darwin to my database: (more…)

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…)

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…)

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I learned the fact that our planet is doomed in  2006. (It’s alright if you don’t trust Al Gore, a politician after all. But think about James Lovelock, who has devoted his whole life to Mother Earth, only to discover that we have taken it to an irreversible coma. Or Stephen Hawkins, who, (more…)

I don’t know, maybe it comes with it age, but I have recently realized a huge misconception in my way of facing things, life, you name it. In my way of being an “adult” and “sensible” person. (more…)

I feel terrible. My throat is spiked with thorns, I have this intermittent pain in my articulations, I’m cold, I’m hot. A few minutes ago, I went into the shower before removing my soaked sheets, after a night of what only very generously could be named as “sleep”. I remember a moment after the shower, when I (more…)

Most of us won’t make it, and, even those of us who do -after so many years-, might as well be sacrificed during the final celebrations to honor the power of the Pharaoh. (more…)

I try to be optimistic, I really do, but obviously, being interdependent as humans are, one cannot pretend to be almighty and fully detach oneself from (more…)

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…)

There were so many times when I wished I was dead in the “perfect” world we had 10 or 15 years ago, that my views on what we now call “the crisis” might have, at least, (more…)