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Is it a problem to be a perfectionist?
It is not necessarily a sin to want to make everything perfect, according to our filters. The problem is not knowing how to get it done without getting stressed out or anxious. Setting high goals is good; the most difficult aspirations bring some of the best triumphs. The emotions that accompany achievement often include joy, pride and satisfaction. But when effort, diligence and meticulousness do not end up in ...Read full article...
Why are parents not able to educate anymore?
Mothers and fathers don’t seem to be academically or psychologically prepared to educate. Parents were good educators in the twentieth century, especially at the beginning, when they had a single priority: that their children would survive without starving. Having overcome hunger, parents of those born in the late seventies and eighties added a new priority: training children and provide them with the opportunity to have a job that would ...Read full article...
Google takes voice recognition to public places
Google is investing a lot in conversation design. Last year, the company published a manual of good practices so that it could be applied to the development of this technology. In the company, it is believed that they are producing another potential interface. They do not say that voice will be the only thing, but it will be an important tool. When you use Google Assistant you can see ...Read full article...
Violence as a sign of Social Rebellion
Mythologizing and romanticizing acts of violence against political or ideological opponents –something that is often done by the media and pundits– helps crowds assume collective identities that while being popular, are not virtuous, but that serve their purpose to commit heinous acts. A case in point is Antifa in the United States, but social movements are more effectively used as tools for violence in Latin America. Recently, the federal ...Read full article...
Are you addicted to your mobile phone?
If you detect these four things in your mobile use habits, you probably are addicted to it. Adopting new habits is a really simple endeavour. Creating new positive habits to live by is noticeably more difficult, however, adopting new negative habits is very easy. The hard part is to get rid of them. That black crystal is calling you. Maybe it has something to tell you, maybe it just ...Read full article...
The Benefits of Climate Change
Do you remember Al Gore? He was not the first prophet of the alleged imminent environmental disaster. The first was James Hansen of NASA’s Goddard Space Center. Like Gore, Hansen sounded the alarms of anthropogenic climate change in 2003. During an interview, I asked him if he could rule out that uncontrollable forces, such as solar cycles, were more influential in climate change than human activity. His answer was ...Read full article...
Most oxygen comes from oceans, not forests
The abundance of animal life in the ocean has provided an enormous variety of services from the beginning of time. From food to adventure and leisure. None of this would be possible without the unicellular organisms of phytoplankton, which float by the thousands in each drop of water in the upper layers of the sea. The phytoplankton comprises two main groups: photosynthetic cyanobacteria and unicellular algae that move near ...Read full article...
Where did the real intellectuals go?
Real intellectuals on mainstream media suffered the same luck as real social democracy: they simply disappeared. The end of the real intellectual class has been clucking for about 40 years and no real intellectual seems to be willing to stand up and show his or her head. In spite of everything, the term survives, but devoid of the aura that used to accompany it. Mainstream media do with the name ...Read full article...
Do we need a new Social Contract?
The existing social contract is an implicit agreement that has been widely accepted, though not often fulfilled, for centuries and among the members of societies to cooperate for social benefits. The social contract includes the sacrifice of some individual freedoms in exchange for State protection. The agreement entails that all individuals in society are subjects of the State with the sole intention to collectively enforce social arrangements. Theories of ...Read full article...
5G makes users victims of hackers, spies, corporate and government control
Technology companies announce the advent of the “next big thing” that will change everything. With its arrival, they promise that new doors to worlds of augmented and virtual reality will finally open. But we must bear in mind the other side of 5G: in a hyperconnected planet, the chances of us being hacked, spied on and controlled by companies and governments will multiply. The enthusiasm for the advent of ...Read full article...
You are programmed to be lazy
Lack of physical activity causes one death every 10 seconds. If it is hard for you to get up from the couch to perform physical activity, do not worry, you are not alone. For decades, we have seen communication campaigns that encourage us to exercise. However, about 30% of adults do not get enough physical activity, and the percentage continues to increase worldwide. According to the World Health Organization, ...Read full article...
This is what happens to your brain when you snort cocaine
The number of deaths linked to drug use in the world is increasing, as well as the number of consumers and people with serious drug problems. According to data from this year’s UN World Drug Report, in 2017 5.5% of the population used drugs, and cocaine production stood at a historic record with 1,976 tons, 25% more than the year previous. While production numbers are increasing, the brains of ...Read full article...
Spooky: Trading privacy for convenience
Google knows everything a user buys online, the places he visits, the apps he uses and even the porn he sees – even if he does it in incognito mode. Amazon knows every request to the platform, its address and the conversations he has with Alexa. And Facebook collects his publications and likes, the times it clicks on an advertisement and, sometimes, even the detailed history of calls and ...Read full article...
The Muslim Brotherhood as auxiliaries of the Pentagon
The Muslim Brotherhood was integrated into the Pentagon. It was attached to the anti-Soviet network constituted with the ex-Nazis during the Cold War. The Islamists controlled by the Pentagon At the beginning of the 1990’s, the Pentagon decided to work with the Islamists, who had hitherto depended only on the CIA. This was operation Gladio B, by reference to the secret services of NATO in Europe (Gladio A ). For ...Read full article...
When blame is misdirected, everyone becomes the victim
Weapons of mass murder are blamed for the crimes committed by a few with the intention to disarm us all. In the same way, digital platforms are blamed for homophobia, racism and anti-feminism to censor us all. It is true, the Internet is not reality, but it is also true that it is cyber reality. Social networks are today’s public squares. Facebook and Twitter are platforms for dialogue, exchange of ...Read full article...
