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Five recent deaths we should have mourned (and we didn’t)

Published October 27, 2011

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…

Published October 14, 2011

RIP Dennis Ritchie.

Published October 6, 2011

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…

Published August 31, 2011

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…

Published June 13, 2011

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…

Published June 7, 2011

The proverbial sadness of the Tropics has been depicted in detail by much better people than me: yet I must echo the lament. In fact,…

Published May 15, 2011

(Part 4 of the saga of my escape from academia, see the original post that started everything, then also this and this.) So in the…

Published May 4, 2011

That Bin Laden has been killed instead of being brought to a jury is not surprising -it was well known that there wouldn’t have been…

Published April 14, 2011

Two months away from research, and it looks like it’s been geological ages. Not that many things have happened (for a start: I still don’t…