“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 […]
Anna Lacci
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«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 […]
I was lucky enough to meet Sarah Savioli at the Gavoi literary festival “L’Isola delle storie” which I attended with some reader friends. We didn’t know this author, she intrigued us and we went to the presentation of her latest book: “I selvatici”. I discovered that someone had written about […]
The Englishman Alexander Parkes between 1861 and 1862, while developing his studies on cellulose nitrate, isolated and patented the first semi-synthetic plastic material: Xylonite. A few years later, the American Hyatt brothers, to replace the expensive and rare ivory in the production of billiard balls, patented the celluloid formula. Bakelite, […]
In an age where visual communication is predominant, finding a book with a white cover and simple black writing is strange. Very strange.No pictures in the entire book! Not even an emoticon. Yes, because even the short messages with which we communicate daily in messaging applications are dotted with smileys, […]