Richard Dawkins is a rock-star, or better to say: a science-star. That adjective for scientists is like “sober” for writers, something that hypothetically could happens but in practice doesn’t exist. He wrote the best seller “The selfish gene” introducing us the idea of the “memes”. At the present He is a professorial fellow of New [...]
Archive for November, 2008
Smile! God is not watching you…
Posted in Atheism, journalism, Science, tagged Atheism, religion, Richard Dawkins, Science on November 11, 2008 | 3 Comments »
The tiny sad story of a little neuron called Jennifer.
Posted in journalism, Science, tagged consciousness, jennifer aninston, journalism, neuroscience on November 8, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The press in my country is simply pathetic. I think 99% percent of the articles are copies from those reported by agencies. The worst part is that journalists just translate and transpose the articles into the paper (normaly with a lot of mistakes). They never take five minutes to call some expert to corroborate what [...]
The Starter
Posted in Science, tagged darwin, quotes on November 6, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I know is not very polite starting a blog with a robbery. Anyway I would like to open this blog with the following quote: “False facts are highly injurious to the progress of science for they often endure long; but false hypotheses do little harm, as everyone takes a salutory pleasure in proving their falseness; [...]





