Jorge Freire -- Imitative glare
The family gathers to celebrate grandfather's birthday. A woman overcomes her sister's apathy and embraces her in a tight embrace. The uncle makes the adolescent nephew drink from his glass, arguing that he «knows a lot about this». Children and grandchildren crowd around the table as if they were [...]
Mario Garcés -- Transition
The author denounces a general cause against the spirit of the Transition at the hands of a left that, as he denounces, makes use of a manipulated historical memory I am convinced that more than half of the new thinkers who give their opinion on the role of Martín Villa in the Transition and in the events for which he was [...]
José Antonio R. Piedrabuena -- Against the belief in neural networks
They should stop discrediting real neurons, because the brain does not only function thanks to them, and change the name of neural networks. I don't think they can be considered the model for any ‘neural network’, beyond the pure appearance and opportunistic use of the name.
José Antonio R. Piedrabuena -- Diet for our brain
Youth ends very early, and the deterioration begins imperceptibly, varying in its onset depending on lifestyle, diet, genetics and the environment in which they live. Polluted air not only affects the cardiorespiratory system but also the brain, making learning and memory difficult. Just like loud noise [...]
José Antonio R. Piedrabuena -- It's the citizens' fault
The Council of the Medical Association (OMC) has repeatedly mentioned the disappointment and physical and emotional exhaustion of healthcare workers and warns that September «is generating a growing sense of fear and desolation due to the progressive increase in serious cases that threatens to overwhelm our health centres, emergency rooms and [...]
José Antonio R. Piedrabuena -- The summer diet
A good gazpacho can be made with tomato, melon, watermelon, cucumber, onion, olive oil, garlic and lemon juice. This is a way of heading an article that may seem strange, but it gives me the creeps to see people with their water bottles and the possibility of overloading the kidney. [...]
José Antonio R. Piedrabuena -- The global problem of having politicians
They create a distrustful and disoriented society that does not know where the truth lies because polarisation and psychopathic deception have been cultivated and used as their crutch and support. They are rooted in negligence, authoritarianism or an ideology that could not develop within a consensus, unity or common project [...]
Manuel García Ramírez -- COVID-19 and the different types of security
Security is generally thought of as only physical, and in some cases logical if it involves software or technology. But the ultimate target is always people...
Confine viruses, not people
This sentence makes sense, as does the reflection that historical epidemics confined the sick, not the healthy. I am surprised how little radical feminism has publicised the success of the excellent political leaders who have managed to dominate COVID-19 in their countries with some of the world's best results [...].
Recipes for overcoming the pandemic
In this article, Ramón Tamames, Professor of Economic Structure, Jean Monnet Chair of the European Union and member of the Royal Academy of Moral and Political Sciences, offers his views on the four areas of action to be developed in the post-COVID-19 scenario: health, the economy, the welfare state and the European Union. Tamames explains what is necessary [...]
Madrid -- cultural model to export
I often point out the importance of Hayek's conquest of the climate of opinion, Gramscian philosophy of non-philosophers or Laclau's floating signifiers in matters such as feminism, sexuality or the environment, when it comes to the Spanish centre-right in the cultural battle. And I do this by recalling, [...]
The age of doubt, savings and simplification
Discovery is born of curiosity, curiosity being the daughter of doubt, the awareness that we know nothing (or little) about the world that surrounds us or that could surround us. It is for all these reasons that we continue to be amazed and to search for these elements around us. There are also discoveries that are the fruit of [...]