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The reasons wars happen, the forgotten letters between Einstein and Freud
In 1932 Albert Einstein was in Caputh (Potsdam) when he decided to write a letter to Sigmund Freud to ask him a question that disturbed him greatly: …
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I’m sorry, but a cup of coffee doesn’t fix the cognitive ravages of a bad night’s sleep
The scenario is familiar: you have not been able to sleep well, either because you have been working late to finish a project, you have gone to a …
Giving moral lessons is a symptom of hypocrisy, according to science
Giving moral lessons is easy, follow them is usually more complicated. In spite of this, sobering moralists and staunch defenders of values who look …
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“Memento mori” doesn’t mean what you think, what this ancient Latin phrase bring to your life?
We are not eternal, although we often live as if we were. In fact, in the last decades our society has developed a true phobia of old age and death, …
Much more than correcting vision, the use of contact lenses improves psychological well-being
Prescription glasses or contact lenses? That is the dilemma faced by some 2.2 billion people who suffer from some type of visual problem – among which …
The 2 hour rule applied by Aristotle, Nietzsche and Einstein
Great inventions are not only due to effort and hard work, they also owe their existence to disconnection, contemplation and lateral thinking that …
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