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Illegal Immigration is Unavoidable. What Do We Do With It?

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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 survival. And humans are [...]

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Change: The Problem with Evolution and Global Warming

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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 mutation. Our teacher questioned why [...]

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The e-volution of the internet

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 coming, or how’s it [...]

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What is shaping future generations? Certainly it’s not formal education

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 these lines. Every decision that [...]

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Nonzero: The logic of human destiny. Another book recommendation

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 constant throughout history and [...]

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The Moral Animal: Why We Are, the Way We Are: The New Science of Evolutionary Psychology by Robert Wright

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 their implications for our moral [...]

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