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¨Innovation, then, means finding new ways to apply energy to create improbable things, and see them catch on. It means much more than invention, because the word implies developing an invention to the point where it catches on because it… Continue Reading →

The French philosopher Jean Buridan (1300-1358), Ockham’s disciple, is attributed the following paradox: with a hungry ass at exactly equal distance from two stacks of hay of the same size, weight and shape, what decision will he make? Which stack… Continue Reading →

Success = talent + luck Big success = a little more talent + a lot of luck In his book Think Fast, Think Slowly, psychologist and Nobel laureate in economics Daniel Kahneman poses this equation with a high-level golf tournament… Continue Reading →

In a 1959 work, the Chilean neurophysiologist Humberto Maturana * with Lettvin and other colleagues published a curious article called “What the frog’s eye tells the frog’s brain” (Lettvin, 1959). In this work they were able to show that the… Continue Reading →

Hans Moravec, a great robotics researcher, formulated (together with Rodney Brooks and Marvin Minsky) this paradox that bears his name: “It is easy to get computers to show capabilities similar to those of an adult human on an intelligence test… Continue Reading →

At the beginning of the 20th century, the American naturalist William Beebe encountered a strange sight in the jungle of Guyana. A group of soldier ants moved in a large circle. The circle had a circumference of more than 365… Continue Reading →

Matt Ridley, doctor of biology, author of books such as Genome and What makes us human, began his career applying rigid genetic models to explain the evolutionary origin of the ethical and sexual behaviors of the human being, but over… Continue Reading →

In part I of this series or articles I described line that proposes nature (genetic inheritance) as the fundamental determining factor for high-level sports development. Now it is the turn of the line that tries to explain exceptional performance mainly… Continue Reading →

Historically, philosophical currents have dealt with these issues. Plato considered that behavior and knowledge were due to innate factors, something he called reminiscence, given the immortal characteristic of the soul. All knowledge is present at the precise moment of being… Continue Reading →

Let’s imagine that we are about to send a box of crystal glasses. Most likely, on the outside we put several times and in a color that highlights the word “fragile”. This means that the content inside if it is… Continue Reading →