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, October 28, 2021

The end of science?

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The magazine Science News has just turned 100 years old. It began with the year 1922. From the beginning, it has numbered its magazines by ...
Thursday, October 21, 2021

A World Government?

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Economists speak of economies of scale , by which they refer to the idea that the larger a company, the lower the production costs, and ther...
Thursday, October 14, 2021

Malignant growth

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Ernest Schumacher Joseph Pearce is the author of the book Small is still beautiful , whose title clearly indicates the influence of Ernest S...
Thursday, October 7, 2021

How are we measuring the effects of the pandemia?

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P oliticians and the media are usually measuring the effects of the COVID-19 disease pandemic, caused by a coronavirus, by the number of pos...
Thursday, September 30, 2021

Is science opposed to faith?

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Charles Darwin The opposition between science and faith is a nineteenth-century invention. And it was not scientists who invented it, since ...
Wednesday, September 22, 2021

The nature of the physical world

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Arthur Eddington The Nature of the Physical World is the title of a landmark work in the history of popular science. Published in 1928, it ...
Thursday, September 16, 2021

Biological evolution and cultural evolution in the history of life and man

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The title of this post is the translation into English of a book of mine, published in 2017 by the publisher CEU Ediciones . As its name imp...
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