New blog post in Italian about a flame between me and an Italian MP… you can check it here. If someone wants to translate it in English, please write!
Can science journalists not read science papers?
Tonight I was checking my Twitter feed when I found this blog post on Nature Soapbox Science blog. Where it says that, at a Royal Institution debate about science and media One of the questions that came up was whether reporters should read the scientific papers related to the story that they are covering. Is …
How it is like to work in USA (plus an announcement)
First of all, I’d like to announce my Italian-speaking readers that I have a brand new popular science blog, focused on made-in-Italy scientific researchs. Yes guys, we Italians do more than simple pizzas! Then, here I’d like to report to my non-US readers what some excerpts from a Reddit thread on the work condition in …
Myth and authorship: or, who should own fictional universes?
(Originally written and published in Italian – All errors in the English translation are mine) In a recent post, a friend of mine poses a long-standing question I’m quite obsessed with. Who owns the fictional universes that an author creates? The problem arises from a practical discussion. An author, Alan Moore, wrote a work of …
A summary of Reddit cosmology or, on the forum as a work of art
It is very probable that my readers know what Reddit is. In case instead you lived the last five years under a rock, it is basically one of the most successful forum communities on the Internet. It is a container for bazillions of subforums on every possible subject. Clicking the “random” link a few times …
Five recent deaths we should have mourned (and we didn’t)
When the brouhaha for the death of Steve Jobs just settled, here in Italy we are just ending another famous-guy-dies frenzy in the media: this time, a young guy who was particularly good at going in circles on top of a motorbike seems to have become the New National Hero to mourn -with people kludging …
Why the death of Steve Jobs is good news
Among the comments on the Economist web site about the recent death of Steve Jobs, the vast majority praising the man like he was a saint and a spiritual guru, one shined for its insight: “A great quote from Slashdot: “From the fall of AOL to the rise of iComputing, we had a 12 year …
A creature of habit
I am a creature of habit, yet I hate habit. It is like an intoxication culling segments of you, reducing yourself to a brood of crawling things. And like a broken piano, all keys now play the same intolerable, comatose chord. I am addicted to habit: when I leave habit, I feel exhilarated and refreshed; …
Ten things I can now say
Well, for once this is a post in Italian for Italians. Would make little sense to convert it in English. See the Italian post. If you’re not Italian, I leave you with a bit of comic relief : a wonderful linguistic sketch by Fry and Laurie, just to link things with the previous post about …