Monthly Archives: March 2016

Serial series

Posted on March 31, 2016 by Antonio Vantaggiato

Pardon my slightly redundant title. “Serial”, or.. series, wonderful series. We are quite surrounded by TV series. Everywhere. Even on the Web, recently a few television-like series have appeared with a lot of success. Actually, calling them “television-like” is an … Continue reading →

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The riddle 50% of Harvard students got wrong

Posted on March 7, 2016 by Antonio Vantaggiato

Does it mean they are stupid? No, it actually means they are not pondering the question. Instead they get distracted by intuition and do not get to see there is a deeper sense to the problem. The problem itself, devised … Continue reading →

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The Department of Oxymoronics and Hitler’s testicles

Posted on March 6, 2016 by Antonio Vantaggiato

We were younger and very much under the spell-illusion that we were changing the world. I read Foucault’s Pendulum and I loved that book that mixed the Knights Templar and Rosicrucian with conspiracies with truths and falsehoods. And I laughed … Continue reading →

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