The death of Hitchens stirred a handful of pro and con commentaries, which suits well the style of his own interventions in political and cultural matters. Two of his traits seem to gather coincidence: the quality of his English writing (which I’m not able to judge) and the integrity of his adherence to his atheism… [Read more…]
October 19, 2011
What would be Steve Jobs’ fate after dropping from college in other time or place? I’m not trying to diminish Jobs’ personality ignoring his strong character, ingenuity, creativity or any other of his virtues abundantly praised after his death. Not even I’m trying to conceal his Darwinian adaptation to the capitalistic wild rules: kill or… [Read more…]
September 11, 2011
After the 9/11 attacks, the hysteria for retaliation led the American people into the abyss of unending war, lost of civil liberties, moral debacle, monstrous debt and economic chaos. Bin Laden couldn’t dream of a biggest success. I’m not arguing here with the “truth” about who actually was the mastermind behind the attacks. I’m answering… [Read more…]
January 5, 2011
Some of the 2010 developments which Andrés Oppenheimer thinks are shaping the coming years. Asiatic students ranked high in standardized tests, announcing a possible future leadership in innovation. While Brazil became a star as an emergent economy, its diplomacy showed an “alarming” independence towards such “pariah” states like Iran. Finally, the prosecution of Julian… [Read more…]
September 30, 2010
Brazil’s momentum under incumbent president Lula Da Silva feeds the dreams to become a major international player in a short time. Oppenheimer warns of the need to be humble about the long way to travel in education and science fields to turn the dreams actual facts. He stress the “constructive paranoia” of China and India… [Read more…]
June 7, 2010
Since the dramatic John Nash’s history got filmed in “A beautiful mind”, the topic of the “misfit genius” became one of the preferred by the mass media. And the disconcerting Russian mathematician Perelman fits the mould. After a a precocious ascendent career in Europe and USA, he turned down some unique academic offers in 1995… [Read more…]
May 25, 2010
After the Hiroshima and Nagasaki destruction, a group of scientists felt the responsibility to warn the public about the impending peril of a nuclear holocaust. Since 1947, the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists bears on its front page a “Doomsday Clock” which marks the changing status of the Humanity’s proximity to a global disaster.Then, in… [Read more…]
September 25, 2009
Mr. Robert Morgenthau has revealed himself as the new American super-hero. He exerted his penetrating insight powers to foresee hidden facilities in Venezuela’s remote places where the still non-existing Iranian weapons of mass destruction are going to be stored. No probe, no evidences but, does anybody doubts he knows what is he talking about? It… [Read more…]
August 21, 2009
Conservative pubishers got a problem with Joseph Stiglitz. As his weight as a mainstream economist is too heavy to just throw him apart (he chairs the United Nations “Comission of Experts on reforms of the international monetary and financial system”) the new tactics seems to be misrepresent his words, so to round his uncomfortable sharp… [Read more…]
August 19, 2009
This year marks the 50th anniversary of the conference by C.P. Snow on ‘The Two Cultures “, the one in which he complained about the hegemony of the “Literary Culture” upon the “Scientific-Empirical Culture”. Since then, there are still those who keep on dreaming with the day in which the scientists replace the politicians. Others,… [Read more…]
August 16, 2009
Don’t you love when somebody gives lessons about something he voluntary vowed to ignore about? Catholics are starting to get filled up with his detachment from real dramatic issues. This illustration was done in the middle of a violent attack by an Argentine Bishop (Msgr. Aguer) against a set of instructions issued by the Education… [Read more…]
June 21, 2009
An ongoing argument in the scientific community in Argentina shows how the Market-oriented agriculture may affect Public Health and the entire political system. A study with amphibian embryos suggested the dangerous toxicity of Glyphosate employed extensively against weeds to maximize genetically modified soybean crops. Dr. Otto Solbrig (a well-established biologist, Harvard emeritus) contends that laboratory… [Read more…]
June 7, 2009
Another take on the hysteria spread by the media (with a little help by the WHO). How many lives have terminated by this so called “pandemic” disease and how many by the capitalist crisis? I grew up in a world worried by the impending nuclear war. Then came the AIDS, the Ebola, the islamofobia and… [Read more…]
May 23, 2009
The Father of Pakistan Nuclear Program has become a sort of headache for the Obama’s Administration. After years of being treated as a national hero he was imprisoned by the American close friend regime of General Pervez Musharraf under charges of selling nuclear know how to rogue states and then released. Now a convinced proponent… [Read more…]
May 3, 2009
Click to enlarge While the swine flu is showing up to be less a real danger of pandemic than a media induced hysteria, some people concerns turns to the economic consequences for both Mexico and the US. But it seems there’ll be winers too: Winners could include drug makers such as Gilead Sciences, Roche, GlaxoSmithKline,… [Read more…]
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