PISA: The Data Show that Screens Aren’t the Problem
At last, it is widely accepted in Spain that the PISA results are very poor, now the worst in history.…
Excellent AI report from Stanford
The ninth edition of the AI Index Report emphasizes “That gap—between what AI can do and how prepared we are…
Facts trump “narratives”
Tania Head was elected president of the World Trade Center Survivors Network. She had claimed that she worked on the…
17 Roles in Media Lynchings
The concepts of bystander and upstander have been very relevant to the analysis and efforts to overcome different forms of…
From the Roman Circus to the Media Trial
The psychology of those who cheer on these media trials closely resembles that of those who turned their thumbs down…
Three differences between Nolan’s adaptation and Homer’s Odyssey
Christopher Nolan's The Odyssey has already generated countless reviews discussing its cinematic qualities. This article has a different purpose. Rather…
Football: From Violence to Dialogue
Civilisation has never been about eliminating conflict. It has been about finding increasingly human ways to decrease and to manage…
The first novel in history
One of the most sexist criticisms of classical novels is that they were written by men, thereby rendering invisible the…
Literature Teaches Us to Think
The novel often considered the greatest modern work, Ulysses by James Joyce, portrays the inner communication of an ordinary person…
Potatoes, chocolate, the Moon and Mars
Europeans did not know about tomatoes, maize, potatoes, or chocolate, among many other things that were introduced to us by…