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The logics of Anger

Anger is part of the basic biology of the human species. It spontaneously appears in infancy, is effectively universal in its distribution across cultures and individuals, and has a species-typical neural basis. Sell et al., 2009. Formidability and the logic of human anger. PNAS 106 (35) 15073-8 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0904312106 I’ve always been curious about the biological basis of […]

Governance-by-Fork, not Force

Bitcoin has thought me many things about money, energy, time, work, corruption… even physics. But maybe the most important was the possibility of a better, faster, incorruptible consensus mechanism among an infinite number of stakeholders. In permissionless and trustless way. This is not something to take for granted! In a world with 7 billion people […]

“Create more than you spend”

“Create more than you spend” that was the sentence that most impressed me in the Jeff Bezos’ letter to Amazon’s stakeholders (2020). I’ve never been crazy about Amazon and never had (still don’t have) stock (I actually don’t have any stock, just #BTC). First I was even ignorant. It was just another store in which […]

Science is best when verified by technology

An essay based on the article Sarewitz, 2016. Saving Science. The New Atlantis  During the COVID19 pandemic, once again, science has brought the solution to a health, humanitarian, social and economic crisis. Scientists, distributed in universities, research institutes, startups, large and small companies, have improved diagnostic methods, tested drugs, developed, produced and tested vaccines that will […]

Tomato Sauce and the Origin of Life

I love cooking. And my specialty is tomato sauce. I inherited it from my grandmother and improved it with my Italian aunts.  Modesty aside, it’s a spectacle. Once, while giving the last boil before starting the long process of cold counting, I saw them there… beautiful… some ‘Benard cells‘.  Well… weren’t perfect ones. Maybe it was wishful thinking […]