Popular Science


Collection of my brief articles on popular science. Most have also been published in Spanish.
Full list at: https://manuelalfonseca.acta.es/docs/papersd.htm.

Manuel Alfonseca

Thursday, April 23, 2026

Quantification of literature

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William Shakespeare The analyses conducted about the literary field in the book The Quantification of History and the Future of the Western...
Thursday, April 16, 2026

Can history be quantified?

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Can the history of culture be quantified? I believe many historians would answer this question in the negative. The prevailing view seems to...
Wednesday, April 8, 2026

The case of Galileo

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The case of Galileo is one of the most widespread modern historical myths, widely used by anti-Catholic propaganda, along with the anti-Span...
Thursday, March 26, 2026

New Ways to Scam the Unwary

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Wallet scam Spanish film "Los Tramposos" About 30 years ago, I received my first attempt at the Nigerian scam : a letter from som...
Thursday, March 19, 2026

The inconstant constant

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Georges Lemaître In a previous post, The Hubble-Lemaître Law , I explained how Georges Lemaître discovered in 1927 the expansion of the ...
Thursday, March 12, 2026

A Radio Telescope on the Moon

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One of the most interesting radio frequencies for radio telescopes is that emitted by hydrogen atoms when excited by an energy input. Upon ...
Thursday, March 5, 2026

A Language Model Trained with Populscience

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Since this blog has almost 550 posts, and it's becoming increasingly difficult to find the information you're looking for, my frie...
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