SANTA CLAUS: THE KIND OLD MAN FROM NORTH POLE OR THE MYTHOLOGICAL PERSON?   “Santa Claus has the right idea. Visit people only once a year.” Victor Borge     He is the most favorite man among the children, the timeless hero of our childhood and the romantic reflection of old, good times. He is […]

THE WORLD WITHOUT COMPUTER POWER     “We are all now connected by the Internet, like neurons in a giant brain.” Stephen Hawking       It is even hard to imagine the world without electricity, computers and technological intelligence. It is the story that will probably never be written but, at the end of […]

FORGOTTEN GERMS AND CLIMATE CHANGES   “An asteroid could hit us at any moment. This is not-and also the most successful kind of life on this planet is not us, its microbes. They are the ones who greatly outnumber us, and may eventually destroy us.” Barbara Ehrenreich   The science will never give up fighting […]

WHY THE PEOPLE ARE AFRAID OF THIS INSECT?    “There is nothing more frightful than ignorance in action.” -Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Collected Works     The famous German thinker and writer was so right about the ignorance. There is nothing worse and nothing more harmful as the illusion of knowledge, the tragedy of accepting […]

HOW STEPHEN KING’S DARK WRITING HAS COLORED THE DESTINY OF MAINE?   “We make up horrors to help us cope with the real ones.” Stephen King               There is only one Stephen King, one and only that makes us experience the fears, face up with nightmares and forget the pain. His writing is outstanding […]

VENEZUELAN HEMORRHAGIC FEVER COULD BE A GLOBAL DANGER The stories about viruses never stop to amaze us and to make us afraid at the same time. Their invisible existence have the power to defeat the whole world with no mercy. The viruses are not evil by their nature; they are simply skilled to survive all. […]

THE ORIGINS OF  SCARY FEST “There is magic in the night when pumpkins glow by moonlight.” -Anonymous   It is nothing spectacular as much as Halloween, since this fest combines the elements of myth, cult and religion. At the end of the day or at the beginning of the scary night, we have a wonderful […]