Can tech skip overlords? Additive manufacturing & small shops by Nicolás Boullosa on November 17, 2022 As of today, it takes more energy and resources to make a battery-powered electric vehicle (BEV) than its internal combustion …
Flying car or big drone? eVTOLs are electric, compact, silent by Nicolás Boullosa on November 9, 2022 Flying cars are arriving decades after making it in pop culture, or so we’ve been told, though this time, it …
From spice trade to semiconductors: rise of neo-mercantilism by Nicolás Boullosa on November 2, 2022 Software and semiconductors have become a part of the digital and physical world in such a pervasive way that we …
Why societies need credible experts willing to be unpopular by Nicolás Boullosa on October 27, 2022 Does the global housing market slump represent opportunities for first-time buyers? It might seem counterintuitive, but a pervasive housing market …
Industry or inter-species mutualism? Cork trees & humans by Nicolás Boullosa on October 19, 2022 When we think of domesticated birds, servile, passive poultry come to mind, yet our pre-Neolithic ancestors may have collaborated with …
Biological vs chronological age: can lifestyle revert aging? by Nicolás Boullosa on October 13, 2022 In her recent book True Age, pathology professor Morgan Levine makes the case to distinguish between two concepts of aging. …
Vengeance vs. mercy: Monte Cristo & Jean Valjean in real life by Nicolás Boullosa on October 5, 2022 In our interactions, so much boils down to the charged interpretation we make of revenge and forgiveness. Revenge can feel …
Butterfly effect: intense week of (un)serious efforts to curb inflation by Nicolás Boullosa on October 1, 2022 September 2022 refuses to be a dull back-to-school month, what the French call the “rentrée.” But in the last week …
Finding meaning in postmodernity: the forgotten Aldous Huxley by Nicolás Boullosa on September 26, 2022 To each generation, its monsters. With his novella The Metamorphosis, Franz Kafka explained more about early-twentieth-century angst than any historian …
Unsafe plastics in everyday products alter hormones & weight by Nicolás Boullosa on September 14, 2022 Like owner, like dog. Pets may share more than their owners’ overall personality. Historical hints at the stunning physical resemblance …
