Jorge Wagensberg

Professor at the Department of Fundamental Physics. University of Barcelona (Spain).

Consider a human collective whose members issue opinions about an event that can only be true of false. Individual reliability is p, ranging between

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Each domain of knowledge has its own language, content and method. They give it character, and whenever a field of knowledge advances, it is

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Hi ha moltes maneres de divertir-se, però, si es jutja pel calendari de festejos a Espanya, res pot igualar a un excés de morbositat subtilment combinat amb un defecte de compassió.
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Valerie Jane Morris Goodall won the XXVII Premi Internacional Catalunya this year. It is a perfect occasion to summarise a very long story. In

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In the long-lived human culture there have been a handful of especially transcendent ideas. They are ideas that divide history into two parts. Most

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An article published in March 2015 in Science informs of the oldest human fossil. This discovery further fleshes out the place and time of

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What do a tree, a planet, an annoyance and a promise have in common? Their number: one! Numbers are the abstraction of language that enables us,

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There was a time when Homo Sapiens coexisted with other species of the same genus such as Homo neanderthalensis or Homo denisova. However all

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The Seven Ages of Culture

Culture, understood as information transmitted via non-genetic means, begins in the animal world when biological evolution is quite advanced. Crows and chimpanzees, for instance,

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Few are those who reject interdisciplinary work, though few are also, interestingly, those who practice it. What is a discipline? It is a kind

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