Bilingualism: the true mastery of two languages
Language is a lifelong endeavour and the sooner we accept this reality, this fact, the better we will fare in the long road to…
8 Tips to stop wasting time
There comes a day in our lives, after we climax at fifty, when we start pondering about time and what it means. Is it…
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…
Playing chess keeps your brain sharp at any age
We all know about the benefits of keeping physically fit. We should also keep in shape mentally lest we end up as doting and…
Madrid, vista por alguien que vive en la ciudad
Para sorpresa de muchos, España tiene el índice de criminalidad más bajo de Europa, bastante menor al del Reino Unido o Alemania, dos países…
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…
