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, January 31, 2019

We know little about the world situation

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Hans Rosling Hans Rosling (1948-2017) was a Swedish doctor in medicine, who worked in the Karolinska Institute and investigated certain...
Thursday, January 24, 2019

Neurons and free will

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In another post in this blog I have described the four theories used by philosophers to try and solve the problem of human mind: What is...
Thursday, January 17, 2019

The political correctness of animalists

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John Maxwell Coetzee In an article in the Spanish major newspaper La Vanguardia, the writer Quim Monzó recalls a campaign organized by...
Thursday, January 10, 2019

Monitoring scientific news in the general press

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Illustration of the initial news Sometimes the general press is accused of opening up great expectations about scientific discoveries a...
Thursday, January 3, 2019

Monitoring futuristic scientific news

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In a previous post I mentioned that many published scientific news are not really new discoveries, but future forecasts. In a later post...
Thursday, December 27, 2018

Jules Verne’s scientific predictions for 2889

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Jules Verne In a science fiction story published in English in the United States in 1889, entitled In the Twenty-Ninth Century and sub...
Thursday, December 20, 2018

Irreversible processes

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Those physicists who consider the arrow of time as an illusion have a problem: not all physics is compatible with a reversible time, as ...
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