“Elogio dell’ignoranza e dell’errore” (In Praise of Ignorance and Error) is Gianrico Carofiglio’s latest work in which the author highlights the value of not knowing and making mistakes through concrete examples and anecdotes drawn from the world of art and science. In a world that celebrates success and perfection, error […]
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To guide their migratory movements or return to a known destination, animals possess a series of compass mechanisms based on the vision of the sun, the stars, or the perception of the Earth’s magnetic field. Depending on their availability, they often help themselves in succession with more than one of […]
«The mind» argues Vallortigara «is not a tabula rasa. Learning from experience is possible only if the nervous system initially has a structure that favours it».«When we reason about the origin of knowledge, it is difficult to get rid of the apparently decisive argument in favor of empiricism, according to […]
The bird pecten oculi is an intraocular anatomical structure that has resisted 350 years of investigation into its function, generating something like thirty different hypotheses, without any of them being completely accepted and considered exhaustive. And the mystery continues… Image 1 gives us a schematic view of the eyeball of […]
In fairy tales, the princess often kisses the toad who turns into a handsome prince and… “they lived happily ever after”. In reality, toads and in general all amphibians (frogs, toads and newts), do not turn into princes, but in their two lives, (the term amphibian means exactly this: “with […]