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15 September 2016

The Rosetta Stone: Science to Rewrite History

Before the text on the Rosetta Stone was deciphered it was impossible to understand the intricacies of the civilization hidden in Egyptian writings. Hieroglyphics were an incomprehensible [...]

16 August 2016

Why Did The Neanderthals Go Extinct?

The terrestrial civilization has been established with only one human species, but it could have been otherwise. Until about 40,000 years ago, a blink in geologic time, at least one [...]

17 May 2016

A European Culture: the Final Piece of the Puzzle?

The EU with 28 member states (2015) adds up to more than 500 million inhabitants; it does not have fiscal union or a common European foreign policy and different forms of State coexist [...]

03 May 2016

Transhumanism: Can Technology Play Dice? (I)

Software that predicts market movements better than any analyst; devices capable of diagnosing diseases with an accuracy never seen before; machines that draw paintings that are exhibited [...]

20 March 2016

The human races, an idea to bury

The previous evening, Ota Benga had danced and sung around the ceremonial fire. In the early hours of March 20, 1916, he locked himself in a shed next to his house, retrieved a gun he [...]

07 January 2016

Eight Striking Similarities between Humans and Chimpanzees

The latest findings on how chimpanzees behave and think have -once again- shown that these primates could well be called the “cousins” of human beings. They not only laugh like us, but [...]

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Implications of the Revolution in Work and Family

Professor Stewart D. Friedman sees us in the midst of a revolution in gender roles, both at work and at home, as the context for major life decisions about careers and families has changed [...]

05 November 2014

We recommend “The Meaning of Human Existence”, de Edward O. Wilson

Does humanity have a special place in the Universe? What is the meaning of our personal lives? For Pulitzer Prize-winning biologist Edward O. Wilson, we have learned enough about the [...]

Games and the Internet: Fertile Ground for Cultural Change

Introduction There has been much interest in recent years in online games as an economic and social force. Virtual currencies such as Bitcoin were first created inside online games, [...]

Designing Connections

No one disputes that new technologies, including the ubiquitous Internet and World Wide Web along with social media, have changed our lives and how we work and play. Most people who [...]