According to some surveys, becoming bald is the greatest fear that men face when they are getting older. Even worse than loosing teeth, gaining weight or becoming impotent. We can understand a fact from that: the status associated with the hair when it comes to personality, self-esteem, seduction and sensuality…
Closed for vacation
Moving has always been part of the history of humanity. First of all, because nomadism was the normal condition before sedentary civilizations. But even after that, populations kept wandering: to escape dearth, to explore, to develop trades. Going on vacation is sure different, yet has ancient root as well…
The International Army Games or the anti-Olympics
It’s well known that in the ancient times the Olympics were so important to stop wars. Less famous than those, the International Army Games were born and raised in Russia in 2015 and they arrived at their third edition in the summer 2017, right in between Rio 2016 and Pyongchang 2018. They look scary and they are exactly what they seem: a competition among armies to display who has got the strongest potential and arsenal…
Utopias
None of the utopian experiments around the world completely succeeded in a way that could have been exported. But even if the ideal community is vainly pursued by centuries, doesn’t mean that one day utopia can come true, changing its meaning on the dictionary…
Slow TV, the other side of entertainment
In a TV scene voted to entertainment, where the attention of the public is held with interactivity – social media comments, vote and much more – there are some, less known, exceptions. Almost 10 years ago Norway invented a new format, the slow TV: a sort of marathon of hours that broadcasts live a very common portion of life…
Japan, no Country for old men
Japan is one of the countries with the highest rate of longevity and health, but with longer life expectancy come problems related to senility, such as dementia or the Alzheimer’s disease. Shinzo Abe’s administration is struggling to find effective measures to improve the assistance to a population that is progressively aging. Sometimes the weight falls only on the families, who bear it less and less willingly, being a constant effort…
Nostalgia ain’t what it used to be
Fading Affect Bias (Fab) is a common mechanism well explained by the scientific community. In a nutshell, we tend to make negative recollections fade away. This unconscious manipulation makes nostalgia so popular…
The sixth branch
The fourth branch of the Government is free press, the fifth is about free speech. The internet can combine them, creating a sort of sixth branch. But the real and the ideal not always coincide…
The “lone wolf”, an erroneous phenomenology
During the last century, the “lone wolf” evolved from a repented outlaw to a criminal, to a right-wing terrorist, to an Islamic terrorist. This is the erroneous phenomenology of an erroneous metaphor…
Africa, magic and football: the hat of Robert Mensah
Is the final of the African Champions League of 1971 and Asante Kotoko is leading, until the corrupted referee gives a penalty to the home team, Englebert. The coach of Asante wants to pull back the team, to protest, but the goalkeeper Robert Mensah stops him. He’s got his magic hat, but the opponents say it’s juju, therefore against the rules. If he will defend the goal, he will have to take it off…