You can't? Or you think you can't?

One day, some years ago, a good friend of mine gave me a book full of tales as a present for my birthday. One of them was about a circus elephant who lived prisoner, chained to a weak wooden peg. A little boy asked himself why, being so big and strong, the elephant never tried to free itself, and after years of fruitless search someone gave him the answer: when the elephant was still a baby, they took it prisoner and chained it to that same...

Categories: english, learned helplessness, psicology

17 things you should know about DNA

You should know them, so don't procrastinate. Plus, maybe sometime, somewhere, knowing one of these facts will get you out of a quandary (one never knows in which kind of quandaries one will get involved in). In any case, at least, you can always show off and burst some of these curious facts out in some social meeting to leave everyone gawking at your wisdom.  Explore more visuals like this one on the web's largest...

Categories: DNA, english

The smile of the axolotl, or why science

The first time I saw the smile of the axolotl, something terrible happened. A dark feeling was born in me. A feeling that, I am afraid, will stay with me until the day of my death: uneasiness. I felt an immense distress by thinking about all the things unknown to me that exist in the world. How could I have been so many years living in this world with a being like that, and not know about it? source It happened on a sunny spring day,...

Categories: axolotl, curiosity, english, science, strange animals

About me

Me, in the galaxy I was born being a baby in the eighties, years passed with pain and glory and I grew up to become a twenty-something in the financial crisis. As such, I find myself exiled in a remote town in the heart of the Swabia called Tübingen, at the edge of the Black Forest. So remote, that not even the Starbucks has arrived yet. But we do have one thing: Science. A lot, and high class! Also mountains, and some beer. And among the dizzying...

Categories: english