Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates and Hong Kong mogul Li Ka-shing are among the millionaire investors in Impossible Foods , a company founded by Stanford University biochemist Patrick O. Brown whose purpose is the creation of source foods. vegetable that have the same flavor as meat or equivalent dairy products, and thus be more environmentally friendly. … Read more
The orgasmic meditation practice is carried out with a partner. One person lies down, unclothed from the waist down, while their partner sits next to them. The one who sits uses his index finger slowly to caress the other’s clitoris and genitals . Normally, this safe sex involves the use of gloves. The session lasts … Read more
In Juuka, Finland, a group of engineering students from the Eindhoven University of Technology have been inspired by one of the models designed by the great Leonardo da Vinci in 1501 to build what is already considered the largest ice bridge in the world . Da Vinci’s original design consisted of building, with a single … Read more
Near the island of Zakinthos , a group of swimmers came across what appeared to be a submerged lost city in 2014. There were paved floors and columns. However, apart from these architectural remains, there was no sign of human presence in the city, such as coins, vessels and the like. A special section of … Read more
There are many people who, at the prospect of getting into a car (especially if they have to carry out a route full of curves), must take a biodramina to avoid dizziness and, eventually, vomiting. But why do we get dizzy when we go by car or in a vehicle that is in motion, such … Read more
Thanks to a new study that was recently presented at SLEEP 2016 , caffeine is a good ally to stay more awake, alert and mentally agile if you have slept only a few hours. However, this effect seems to disappear after two continuous days under this sleep deficit . To demonstrate this, the researchers recruited … Read more
Our sense of touch is not equally distributed throughout all parts of our body , some parts being much more sensitive than others. For example, the soles of the feet are not particularly sensitive, but the hands and lips occupy very large areas of the somatosensory cortex. To measure the sensitivity of our sense of … Read more
One can argue long and wide about the inconvenience of relying on pseudosciences, but the most important points could be summarized in four maxims that we offer you below . Obviously, when we say not to trust pseudosciences, it should not be interpreted that the particular approaches of a certain pseudoscience do not end up … Read more
Sometimes it seems that we have forgotten what it was like to live without penicillin. No vaccines of any kind. We also seem to have forgotten that not long ago 15% of women died in childbirth . That, until recently, it was believed that certain plants can effectively cure cancer (although in some countries such … Read more
Often times, when a person who defends a holistic view of the world or who criticizes that science is shortsighted, squared off and refractory to accept pseudosciences, the criticism is often confused: the scientist is attacked instead of the science . Science is a tool for exploration and verification of facts, and depending on the … Read more
Despite the fact that it is relatively easy to identify a pseudoscience, there are still many people who trust them or who, in any case, consider it appropriate to investigate them thoroughly to see if they really are a pseudoscience or not . In the meantime, we have the list of shame in effect, and … Read more
Volcanoes are fascinating geological phenomena, capable of vomiting the bowels of the Earth, producing diamonds and even, in their dormant state, giving fruit to a national park that seems to be from another planet, that of Yellowstone. To measure the fierceness of a volcano’s eruption, the Volcanic Explosive Index (IEV) is used, a scale that … Read more
Plato’s allegory of the cave is a simple allegory of pedagogical-philosophical intentions that, nevertheless, has always been very effective for me to silver a certain very little intuitive blindness: not so much the blindness of the ignorant, but of the one who believes himself enlightened with wisdom eternal, indisputable and not open to criticism. According … Read more
Some penises, and also some areas of the penis, more specifically, appear darker than the rest of the skin, in some cases they even appear stained black. But this difference in the coloration of the dermis is completely natural and is due to the hormones of puberty . This is what Lindsey Bordone , a … Read more
The God of the holes refers, broadly, to the idea of God that many people forge to fill their gaps of ignorance . For example, I do not know how the universe originated or the reason for its existence, therefore the answer is God (however, that filling does not really explain anything, because we can … Read more
One of the Spanish science fiction novels that I most enjoyed in its day was La locura de Dios , by Juan Miguel Aguilera , in which Ramón Llull carried out an expedition in search of the Kingdom of Preste Juan. The most interesting thing about the work is, undoubtedly, Llull’s scientific vision in a … Read more
The division of labor and specialization are symptoms of civilization. However, due to this specialization, many people face an intellectual challenge as if they were wearing blinders. It occurs in all areas, from economics to physics. The tree simply does not allow you to see the forest . It is affirmed that one thing is … Read more
The other day, reading those xkcd comic strips that are like synthetic and minimalist advanced classes to learn to think while you laugh (like many chapters of South Park, between expletive and expletive it has more chicha than many philosophy books), reading xkcd i mean i came across a strip to explain how people often … Read more
If you manage to get a few million kilometers away from Earth , until it is just a pale blue dot surrounded by millions of galaxies, you take perspective, and ask yourself: why do people attach so much importance to ideas and customs when they are only trifles in a incomprehensible universe? Why so much … Read more
Stray cats in a small fishing village south of the Japanese island of Kyushu used to develop tremors and uncoordinated movements after snooping around places where fish were unloaded. Some time later, this kind of San Vito dance began to occur also among human beings, together with loss of consciousness or delusional ideas. What was … Read more
Francis Bacon , despite not considering himself a scientist, was one of the fathers of modern science for his way of approaching the problem of how to accumulate verifiable knowledge. In one of his lesser-known books, however, he tells the made-up story in which some sailors arrive at an unknown island in the Pacific Ocean: … Read more
As a child, ten or twelve years old, I saw the first glimpses of reality through the lenses of science. I was not like Francis Bacon , I did not even come out of Plato’s cave. I just watched UFO debates on television that my father would sometimes put on. In these debates, everyone seemed … Read more
I’ve read about telepathy, ESP, astrology, the Bermuda triangle, spirits, dowsers, and the Nostradamus prophecies. I have studied the manuscripts of the Pope of Scientology L. Ron Hubbard , the keys to the structure of galaxies in the energy of human orgasms by Wilhelm Reich, the electrical creation of microscopic insects with salts by Andrew … Read more
There are simple ideas, although their substrate is tremendously complex, that are often lost through the sink of memory, of daily chores, of zombie inertia. They are ideas that deserve, in my opinion, to be remembered. So if I have the opportunity, I would like to stamp them on a t-shirt . But not in … Read more