Another Chapter of Human Involution

Advertising and it’s role in our society Every day i watch better and better commercials. The advertising industry does a better job as anytime in our history and this is only normal taking into consideration that they are building their advertisments based on a deeper and deper understanding of our human nature and our why […]

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Q&A: Why does hot water freeze faster than cold water?

Seemed to me like a question long answered. This is my shortened answer: Heat is a macroscopic characteristic of ‘microscopic’ events. In our case we have 2 bodies of water with different temperatures. The higher the temperature the higher the kinetic energy of the particles. It is a fact that hot water freeze faster than […]

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Between Evolution and Involution

History When i was young i learned in school about humans and the Darwin’s theory. At that time the implications of this theory together with what i learned about natural selection and later about genes and the genetic material meant little to me. Yet i was intrigued by one idea that my anthropology teacher presented […]

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The wrong ways of “GREEN Energy”

Lately “Green Energy” has become more than an simple annoyance to my ears. Everybody is talking about that, people on the streets, companies and even governments. People believe that “Green Energy” will solve their energy needs. Companies are banking on this term to sell their products. Governments are using it to reshape the global economy. […]

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Improve your transportation habits

Transportation it’s one of the main pollutant sources on a global scale and one of the biggest CO2 sources. This is mainly because we rely on non renewable, polluting sources to power our cars and other means of transport. You can also consider the short lifetime of a car, that has become even shorter nowadays, […]

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“El laberinto del fauno” and what history tells us

I usually don’t watch movies and I almost never watch Spanish, French or any other non-English movies. Yet i think El laberinto del fauno is one of the best movies ever made. I won’t review it as words are to poor to better express the feelings i have felt. Sometimes, somebody needs to remind us […]

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COP15 Copenhagen, it’s legacy and a possible solution

Copenhagen COP15 summit was not as success. Yet we have learned much, we have learned that we cannot save our planet and our environment without sacrifice, a sacrifice that we cannot inflict on our future generations.

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Drinking habits, when, where, what to drink

In my previous article i was discussing about our everyday eating habits and how to eat. I started that article thinking about the fact that eating is something we do every day and has a big impact on our life and health. But seems i overlooked something that we do more often than eating and […]

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Eating habits & how to eat

In this article i am presenting my views and opinions regarding the eating process seen as an experience (“how to eat”). Another article will cover the “what to eat” perspective. Eating is something what we do rather often and is amazingly one of the things that we are bad at. How many of us wondered […]

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Topics for “life, energy, resources” category

Here are the main topics for “life, energy, resources” category. Feel free to recommend others! how to use our resources, lifetime, energy  renewable – agriculture, sun, water, wind / non renewable – mining, petrol, gas Things that i consider useful to learn and to do: Use as little resources as possible and recycle/reuse anything that […]

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