When I decided to study Psychology, I remember that one of the main concerns I had was if the clinician role had its days counted.
It was the late 90s and Artificial Intelligence (AI) wasn’t just something you used to only see in science fiction movies anymore. It was already real science. I used to think that if I were to become a clinical psychologist I would be signing my early retirement. Yeah, I worried about that stuff when I was 18 (don’t know what the rush was).
I feared that molecular biology, computing technology, chemistry, genetics, neuroscience and ultimately nanotechnology could kill talk therapy within the next 2 or 3 decades.
Migration is a phenomenon that not only applies to men, but animals too. If plants could walk, they’d migrate too.
Animal species have migrated since life popped in this planet. Cataclysmic events, climate changes or resource scarcity are some of the factors that have triggered mass migrations in a quest for ...
In 1996, I was almost finishing high school and we were still concerned about the Ozone hole. Global Warming “did not exist” back then. We were in Biology class discussing cancer. I remember saying that I knew it was an uncontrolled growth of a group of cells product of a maladaptive ...
I was reading the article Game Web 2.Over? published on meish.org. It was about what’s currently going on with the social web. And it made me think. We are currently in the epilogue of web 2.0 and maybe starting to read the prologue of 3.0.
But this is not another post about what’s ...
Tonight I was watching the latest episode of Fringe, “The road not taken”. In one of the scenes, Walter is explaining Olivia why she’s been having visions. He describes our perception of time as a line, while in reality at every moment our reality unfolds into an infinite number of ...
What does History, Number Theory and Evolutionary sciences have in common? Nonzero takes you on a fast ride around the world (I mean the real one, not just the left side of the map) and through history. Sinthetic and comprehensive.
Shows that two variables ( information & communication) have been a ...
Are men literally born to cheat? Does monogamy actually serve women’s interests? These are among the questions that have made The Moral Animal one of the most provocative science books in recent years. Wright unveils the genetic strategies behind everything from our sexual preferences to our office politics–as well as ...
