How to Write a Thesis

A funny and unpretentious guide by the illustrious novelist Umberto Eco, for his favorite audience: teachers and their students. | Continue reading

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Media Projections and Trump’s Election: A Self-Defeating Prophecy?

Projections may be affecting the very future they are attempting to predict. | Continue reading

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The Perils of Being Paul Ehrenfest, a Forgotten Physicist and Peerless Mentor

Largely a forgotten figure, Ehrenfest was beloved by the brightest students — and foremost scientists — of the 20th century. | Continue reading

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“Funes the Memorious” and Other Cases of Extraordinary Memory

In Borges's story of barely 12 pages, the celebrated writer plays with the infinite in a context of vast labyrinths of memory and the consequences of having an unlimited capacity to remember. | Continue reading

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To Fix the Social Sciences, Look to the “Dark Ages” of Medicine

If medicine could break with its barbarous past, why shouldn’t the same path be open to the social sciences? | Continue reading

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The Disturbing Power of Information Pollution

When we’re lulled into giving up on truth, we give up on critical thought — even dissent itself. | Continue reading

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Mexico's Little-Known Attempt to Save Freud from the Nazis

Had the campaign to bring Freud to Mexico succeeded, the imperiled psychoanalyst would have found himself living among the world’s foremost artists and intellectuals. | Continue reading

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The Importance of Being a Headline

Part of the magical allure of news reading, headlines play a crucial role in turning news into a story. | Continue reading

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