Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
I assume you’re all familiar with Stevenson’s novel of 1886, “The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde,” which has now entered the popular language. The story tells us of a doctor, Dr Jekyll, who understands that the truth of human nature is to be split into two (“Man is not truly one but truly two”…
Upside and down
In a famous tv series released in recent years a young boy gets lost in a dark and cold place, populated by dangerous creatures that his friends call “upside down”. This strange place threatens to invade and infect the everyday reality of a small American city. The series I’m talking about is obvious…
ATYPICAL: some food for thought on autism
“… You probably wouldn’t expect it but, in Antarctica there are 37 volcanoes with names. Many of them are covered with thick sheets of ice. Often, under all that ice, the lava creates hot cavities. So, even in that relentlessly cold landscape, you can find hidden heat … “,” … I like Antarctica, i…
The goal of medicine is the end of medicine
The anti-SARSCoV2 vaccination campaign begins. Everywhere in the world people start to breathe a sigh of relief, they welcome with enthusiasm the vans that carry doses, the first vaccinated people take selfies, smile with their eyes, invite everyone to get vaccinated when they will be called. There a…
Useless people
I have friends who are artists, painters, but not only, who are living a difficult year since the pandemic started. Exhibitions are closed but they don’t receive any state contribution. It is a situation common to many categories of artists and operators around their world. But beyond the economic di…
Diversus
In a blog held by a friend, a few weeks ago I read an article that said that the etymology of the word fun comes from Latin diversus, which means different.
That concept stuck in my head. At a superficial glance someone could think that fun, considered as leisure, is a different moment from daily…
“A slow and quality time” A conversation with the pedagogist Marta Tropeano
Starting from one of the points considered fundamental in the Law n.170 of 2010, “relational and emotional diseases” I asked Marta Tropeano, pedagogist, teacher and writer of fairy tales, what role emotions have in learning processes: the word “emotion” comes from Latin e-movere which means to let ou…
The spirit of future christmas
“Doubled the cases of depression” … “coming wave of mental illnesses”…
I wonder what these headlines mean. Is this really happening? Does a virus that causes a so severe respiratory distress which is taking millions of people’s breath away all over the world has also the power to cause depress…
To day Mirko is a great architect!
I am a teacher and every day I live relationships with teenagers who, sometimes silently others a bit undisciplend, ask for answers to their deepest needs, often unheard.
One of the most critical problems in school in recent years is the so-called BES (Special Educational Needs), ambiguous acronym…