What innovation owes to an obscure pre-Socratic philosopher by Nicolás Boullosa on February 23, 2023 According to Thomas Edison, innovation follows a 1%-inspiration-to-99%-perspiration ratio. Work, tinkering, and attitude can help deliver some breakthroughs. But Edison’s …
David Deutsch: preserving the means of error correction is “morality” by Nicolás Boullosa on February 15, 2023 In a recent interview (or analysis, given the enunciatory style of his interviewer), heterodox physicist David Deutsch (author of The …
We use more than 5 senses: the symphony of perceiving reality by Nicolás Boullosa on August 12, 2022 It rained, and we walked out. It wasn’t as dark anymore, and the sun was coming and going in between …
Risk aversion getting in the way of essential breakthroughs by Nicolás Boullosa on June 23, 2022 It’s challenging to bring urgency to diffuse problems whose dire consequences happen over time, bringing fatalism to the situation —and …
Tinkering with post-industrial scraps to innovate in housing by Nicolás Boullosa on June 1, 2022 Thomas Edison defined discontent as the first necessity of progress. Optimism and progress are naïve constructions of non-conformists who believe …
Peligrosa veneración de un mundo estancado (según Nietzsche) by Nicolás Boullosa on June 15, 2021 El interés del público por la ciencia y la experimentación es primordial. Sin él, financiar esfuerzos de investigación que son …
Gobernanza “glocal”: mitigar a gran escala, adaptar lo local by Nicolás Boullosa on March 17, 2021 Un puñado de personas se ha acostumbrado a trabajar lejos de los focos y la atención del momento; su misión …
Otros tiempos difíciles: Bertrand Russell y Antonio Gramsci by Nicolás Boullosa on December 9, 2020 Creemos que la situación que afrontamos hoy es tan cruda y falta de esperanza que hemos olvidado la sana lucidez …
Inventiva vs. decrecimiento: viaje por el corazón de Grecia by Nicolás Boullosa on November 2, 2018 La primera vez que visité el teatro clásico griego en Epidauro, al norte del Peloponeso, la dentada península meridional de …
Cajón de sastre ’68: protesta, ciencia ficción e informática by Nicolás Boullosa on April 12, 2018 La primavera del 68 aspiró a transformar el mundo… para dejarlo como estaba. Los cambios más profundos que experimentaba la …
