The Truth about Dogs and Cats

05/17/2024

Sensitivity and Specificity

The problem with trying to fix an error after making many mistakes is that we tend to err in the opposite direction. You know the saying: first by omission and…

07/02/2022

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…

01/06/2022

Sense and Sensitivity

This quote by the great biologist Theodosius Dobzhansky, even though old, is still actual and applicable to fight fake news, misinformation, pseudosciences and scientific exclusion. The attractiveness of science to…

12/05/2021

Posology

A woman once told me: “What attracts in you, is the same thing that afterwards repels.” It took me a long time to understand what she meant. To explain, I…