Los errores tipográficos ¿aumentan con la edad?
Los errores tipográficos son la pesadilla de todos los autores, de todos los que escribimos. Pueden fácilmente convertirnos en el hazmerreir de la comunidad…
The old caring for the elderly; my story
We all congratulate ourselves on the mouth-gaping advances of medical science, which allow us to live better and longer. Everybody wants to live as…
Are we as happy as scientist Steven Pinker says we are?
Steven Pinker, the Harvard University cognitive scientist, has just published a book, Enlightenment Now: The case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress where he…
I was once a bilingual immigrant
In the early fifties, as a young boy, I crossed the Atlantic aboard a TWA Super Constellation propeller airplane, from Madrid. After many hours…
New Year’s resolutions: are we lying to ourselves?
Is it good to lie to ourselves? Why do we constantly fool ourselves? Was Dr. Pangloss right? Snap out of it and refuse to…
Discover Spain´s endless holiday celebrations
Every year Christmas seems, and does, start earlier and earlier. Come the 20th of November and stores, Malls, shopping centers, all begin decking windows…
Forgetting a word doesn´t make you senile
Past fifty, when we forget a word, we fear Alzheimer´s is knocking at our neurons’ door. At a certain age, forgetting words and names…
Aprender de memoria para ejercitar la mente
Acabo de descubrir que pertenezco a una generación olvidada y caduca que aprendía cosas de memoria. Los maestros nos obligaban a aprender cosas de…
5 Word games to play with kids and grandkids
The twenty-four hours we have at our disposal every single day of our lives do not seem to stretch at all, and they even…
