«The mind» argues Vallortigara «is not a tabula rasa. Learning from experience is possible only if the nervous system initially has a structure that favours it».«When we reason about the origin of knowledge, it is difficult to get rid of the apparently decisive argument in favor of empiricism, according to […]
Anna Lacci
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I was lucky enough to meet Sarah Savioli at the Gavoi literary festival “L’Isola delle storie” which I attended with some reader friends. We didn’t know this author, she intrigued us and we went to the presentation of her latest book: “I selvatici”. I discovered that someone had written about […]
The Englishman Alexander Parkes between 1861 and 1862, while developing his studies on cellulose nitrate, isolated and patented the first semi-synthetic plastic material: Xylonite. A few years later, the American Hyatt brothers, to replace the expensive and rare ivory in the production of billiard balls, patented the celluloid formula. Bakelite, […]
In an age where visual communication is predominant, finding a book with a white cover and simple black writing is strange. Very strange.No pictures in the entire book! Not even an emoticon. Yes, because even the short messages with which we communicate daily in messaging applications are dotted with smileys, […]
“It is not the most intellectual of the species that survives; it is not the strongest that survives; but the species that survives is the one that is able best to adapt and adjust to the changing environment in which it finds itself” (Charles Darwin)This is what you can read […]