In 2008 an Australian teenager called Corey Worthington was left home by his parents with a specific instruction: no party. Not only that Corey organized a party, it was one of the first socially organized mass parties. Because he mentioned the party on a social network it went viral and things […]
“What we wanted was flying cars, what we got was 140 characters”. It is a quote by Peter Thiel (founder of PayPal) and one of my favorite ones. I like it because it sums up very well the contrast between our past expectations regarding the future and the reality of present. […]
When most of us hear about currency we think money, because we wrongfully associate currency with money. However, these 2 notions are quite different. Currencies are elements used in an exchange system to obtain something else. They are a system to transfer value from one place to another. The people of […]
The first written evidence on the use of watchwords dates more than 2200 years ago. They were used by the Roman military for important commands. If watchword doesn’t seem familiar, you’ll recognize it for sure by its modern name, password. It’s what you might have used as a child when playing […]
In technical terms memory is a process through which your mind transforms external stimuli into storable information that can be later retrieved. The sound of ‘Honey, don’t forget the milk’ is encoded by your ears and stored up to the point where you remember it in the supermarket. Or you don’t […]
When an important event occurs our mind translates the external stimuli associated with it and stores that information to be later retrieved as memories. We nostalgically remember good memories (while trying to forget bad ones) in terms of location, time and ‘mental shots’ (our recollection of the event). Our memories define […]
‘Give me your phone to call your father, mine died’. Since that request came from my mother I had to comply but had shivers down my spine thinking what if she accidentally starts browsing through my photos, through my browser history, social accounts and so on. Not that I had anything […]
IRS. If you’re an American the name crawls in your mind and then onto your spine making you shiver. It’s the Internal Revenue Service, the agency responsible of collecting taxes and enforcing the tax laws. Most countries have a revenue agency, a governmental institution that collects revenue from the citizens in […]
You might not recognize Aaron Fechter by his name but for sure you recognize some of his creations. First of all, one of his companies was part of the merger that created Chuck E. Cheese’s, a chain of pizza entertaining restaurants worth close to one billion dollars. Then, he created one […]
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In 1817 Berzelius, the father of the modern chemistry, named a newly discovered element ‘lithium’, after the Greek word equivalent to ‘stone’ (because of the […]
