A 15th century tale, originating from Alfonso de Madrigal, a prolific 15th century commentator who enjoyed creating stories with moving statues in the Middle Ages, wants Albertus Magnus, a real …
Organized stupefaction?
It is a position that we have publicly supported (i.e., in writing) on various occasions, despite it being particularly unpopular: every process of extensive mechanization of human capabilities quickly leads …
Science; Of whom;
When in 1942, during the Second World War, a good portion of the Western physicists’ elite gathered in the US to transform their until-then theoretical knowledge and ideas into something …
mythematic stories about the destruction of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
Introduction by the translator: Green technologies in a shade of… phosphorescent Suddenly, nuclear technology seems to be going through a second youth. While until recently (and especially after the accident …
The gears of recording
Statistics, as the science of numbers, records, and classifications without further explanations and annoying causal chains, had been closely intertwined with genetics from an early stage. Eugenics (and therefore genetics, …
Statistics… as we say “state”
The phrase of Mark Twain (which he himself attributed to British Prime Minister Disraeli) is now widely known: “There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.” Despite …
neurolink: cross section to transhumanism…
The threat and the promise (a genealogy) …We need to achieve symbiosis with artificial intelligence, in order to achieve the democratization of intelligence. How will we start? By implanting a …
In front of the door of (natural) law
Galileo’s and Descartes’ laws of motion, Newton’s law of gravity, Maxwell’s laws of electromagnetism, Mendel’s laws of genetics, the laws of thermodynamics, the laws of reflection and refraction of light …
Big Bang: the farewell of a theory; (how sacred is science?)
The Big Bang theory will soon close a century of life – perhaps its obituary will coincide with the moment it retires into the history of human scientific conceptions. Its …
the great leap: immunity as capital, morbidity as investment
The term “natural capital” was first used in 1973 by E.F. Schumacher in his book “Small Is Beautiful” and was further developed by Herman Daly, Robert Costanza and other founders …
For an anti-history of genetics
Introduction How well does a physicist really know nature and its secrets? To what depth has a biologist understood the phenomena of life and the intricate pathways it follows? Naive …
It was an order…
They said that Saddam Hussein had “anthrax” – a biological weapon (while they knew he didn’t)… They said that for this reason their army must be vaccinated preventively, for their …