The Alfred Nobel legacy: 2007 Nobel Prizes

By Alvaro Fernandez | October 9, 2007 |

In 1895, this will by Alfred Nobel cre­at­ed the Nobel Prizes. One page worth read­ing, with this core para­graph: “The whole of my remain­ing real­iz­able estate shall be dealt with in the fol­low­ing way: the cap­i­tal, invest­ed in safe secu­ri­ties by my execu­tors, shall con­sti­tute a fund, the inter­est on which shall be annu­al­ly distributed…

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Good habits, and other memes

By Alvaro Fernandez | March 30, 2007 |

Meme: “The term “meme” (rhyming with “theme”), coined in 1976 by the biol­o­gist Richard Dawkins, refers to a “unit of cul­tur­al infor­ma­tion” which can prop­a­gate from one mind to anoth­er in a man­ner anal­o­gous to genes. If you haven’t read Dawkins’ clas­sic book The Self­ish Gene…it is nev­er too late to enjoy it! There are some “memes”…

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