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…
Being over 65 is no longer ‘elderly’
Judith Graham published a post in the The New York Times on April 19, 2012, titled “Elderly no more” in which she deals with the…
¿A qué edad perdemos la juventud?
El debate sobre a qué edad perdemos la juventud no se saldará jamás. Algunos se sienten jóvenes hasta la muerte mientras otros añoran sus…
