LIVING SPACE
On a blog that actively deals with psychology such as Papillon, for example, a first reading could be that attributed to him by Karl Lewin, a famous social psychologist who in the ’30s developed the Field Theory that bears his name.
Following his research, Lewin highlighted how behaviors are a fun…
A LINE OF LIGHTS
Have you ever seen a neuron creating a new connection?
If there is one thing that lets me know, with absolute certainty, that I’m back home after a long journey, a long day, a long walk, or a long afternoon spent stuck in traffic dreaming of tossing some spaghetti gar…
PAPILLON INTERVIEW ZEROCALCARE (PART II)
So, come on Michele, let’s get back to work. I don’t think there are many left. Go.
Ok. Yellow.
Yellow and red. Look at that. So, let’s see they wrote to us from home. So, it’s been 15 years since the debut of your first book, The Armadillo Prophecy, and we wer…
PAPILLON INTERVIEW ZEROCALCARE
We went to visit Michele Rech, known to everyone as Zerocalcare, to talk about the current historical and cultural moment, young people and politics, society and social networks…
And about possible horizons
This is what he told us…
I NEVER WANTED TO BECOME A TEACHER!
When I was a child, I never played at being a teacher, and as an adult I never imagined that I would become one.
And yet, here I am! I fell in love!
With those students you can’t wait to see—not because they are perfect, but because they constantly challenge you to put yourself out there.
No…
WHO IS ARTIFICIAL?
They say the IA will replace us in the fairly near future.
Many people worry, raise the alarm, and those who work there… seem the most scared.
He’s getting so smart that he’ll replace everyone in his work, because he’s faster, he doesn’t make mistakes, he does huge calculations in the blink of…
CROSSING THE DESERT
They call it the Empty Quarter. A name that sounds like something out of an ancient tale, belonging more to legend than to geography.
The Rubʿ al-Khali is a vast expanse of sand. Its dunes stretch as far as the eye can see, some rising two hundred metres into the air. Look in any direction and the…
FREE RADICALS
Free radicals (or simply radicals) are part of a very unstable, and therefore very reactive, chemical species, and from this first line you can already tell that they are very complicated types, because tell me how you can define yourself as free and radical if you end up belonging to a species.
B…
GOODBYE, SUMMER!
In a little village at the foot of the Apennines that no longer exists, I keep small treasures of the mind. One of those places so small that you could play one giant game of hide-and-seek across the whole village, finding yourself shouting “Found youuuuu!” between breathlessness and laughter after t…