Far from any willing to write about contentious topics, this article will have a softer approach, meant to relax the mind of the reader and offer a little bit of delight and reflection. The theme that I chose this time to analyze is indeed curiosity: a concept that is oftenRead More →
How convenient is google? You need to know something, you google it, you find it. It is great, isn’t it? The search engine is so convenient that the term ‘to google something’ was even added to several dictonaries in various languages all over the world. If you think about itRead More →
Geometrical metaphors to explain the liberal and communitarian paradigms and to advance some proposals for a dimensional shift in the relationship between the individuals and the communities. “If you go away from a row, you can still come back into it. A row is an open formation. But a circleRead More →
Have you ever wondered how it would feel, in 2019, to dwell in an ancient cave, the same where your ancestors lived? No, I’m not trying to apply Plato’s teachings in the modern era, but instead I’m talking about something that really happens in one of the most wonderful placesRead More →
What is religion? Why do we believe in something as such? Does God really exist? How is it possible that, in one planet only, we put our faith in so many different Divinities? These are all extremely fascinating questions mankind has been asking itself for ever. I have no intentionRead More →
Third Culture Kid – A child raised in a culture other than their parents’ (or the culture of the country given on the child’s passport, where they are legally considered native) for a significant part of their early development years. The term was coined by anthropologists John and Ruth Hill Useem inRead More →
It happens sometimes that one feels like he has to do something, and then he just stands staring in the middle of nothing, with a cocktail in his hand and in the sad background of a latin-american song that tells “Baila conmigo mujer / Que la noche solamente comienza”. Well,Read More →
As Estonia became the first European country to introduce e-democracy, namely a digital version of the “traditional democracy”, it has become a model for the rest to follow. Indeed, it has added a new dimension to our concept not only of democracy, but also of participation and nation states. Named byRead More →
Mark Robbins’s intervention at the second Global Governance Symposium on July 11th gave a taste of the concept of “boundaries” from an architectural, educational and sociological point of view. As he states, the space we inhabit says much about ourselves, we use symbols and therefore architecture represents and embodies theRead More →
The billion dollar reason behind women’s right to drive in Saudi Arabia Up until September 2017, Saudi Arabia was unique in being the only country in the world where women were forbidden to drive motor vehicles. However, on 26 September 2017, King Salman issued an order to allow womenRead More →