21 Apr 2023

Cleopatra was not even tanned (far from black)

Di Emanuele Mastrangelo e Daniele Scalea|2023-05-29T18:02:05+02:0021 April 2023|Categorie: Commenti e opinioni, Cultura e Scienza|Tag: , , , , , |13 Commenti

With all due respect to the authors of the TV series about Cleopatra, there is not the slightest possibility that the last Queen of Egypt was even tan. But at stake is not only philological correctness.

21 Mar 2023

Are schools and teachers still needed in the age of ChatGPT?

Di Marco Malaguti|2023-03-21T14:27:42+01:0021 March 2023|Categorie: Commenti e opinioni, Cultura e Scienza|Tag: , , , , , |0 Commenti

Education has a bright future if we increasingly begin to think of it as a school of learning to think and interact and not merely accumulating data.

15 Mar 2023

No, Leonardo's mother did not arrive on a boat. And she was probably an Italian, too

Di Emanuele Mastrangelo|2023-05-29T18:02:10+02:0015 March 2023|Categorie: Commenti e opinioni, Cultura e Scienza|Tag: , , , , , , , |15 Commenti

A notarial act, a shared name, and a novel to "fill in the gaps." These are the elements by which the Italian press is hype the story of Leonardo da Vinci's alleged Circassian origin.

3 Mar 2023

If this is the man: report of the Pro Vita conference

Di Emanuele Mastrangelo|2023-05-29T18:02:15+02:003 March 2023|Categorie: Commenti e opinioni, Cultura e Scienza|Tag: , , , , , , , , , , |0 Commenti

The meeting raised many points of interest. Above all, a need was highlighted: we must organize resistance to the new transhumanist world of which the Ferragni, social censorship, and "ecological transition" are the epiphenomena.

28 Feb 2023

Do you read Orwell or Tolkien? To Britain, you are a potential terrorist

Di Enrico Petrucci|2023-02-28T18:38:06+01:0028 February 2023|Categorie: Commenti e opinioni, Cultura e Scienza|Tag: , , , , , , , , , |1 Commento

The British government's Prevent program has a list of books that can lead the reader to radicalize and become a "white supremacist": G.K. Chesterton, Aldous Huxley, J.R.R. Tolkien, Joseph Conrad, C.S. Lewis, and George Orwell!

12 Jan 2023

Senate defacement is not just a stupid thing

Di Emanuele Mastrangelo e Enrico Petrucci|2023-05-29T18:02:20+02:0012 January 2023|Categorie: Commenti e opinioni, Cultura e Scienza|Tag: , , , , , , |0 Commenti

There is really nothing to laugh about the action committed by three activists of the fanatical environmental group "Last Generation" by defacing Palazzo Madama's facade. Nor is it correct to engage in reductionism. The act is by no means derecognizable as "just a stupid thing."

3 Jan 2023

Conservative and rational: profile of Pope Benedict XVI

Di Lorenzo Bernasconi|2023-01-03T15:23:04+01:003 January 2023|Categorie: Commenti e opinioni, Cultura e Scienza|Tag: , , , |0 Commenti

The passing of Joseph Ratzinger, alias Pope Benedict XVI, marks the end of an era for the Catholic Church. In addition to being a religious leader, Ratzinger was an influential figure culturally and politically, and it is from a political perspective that this article tries to draw a brief portrait.

9 Dec 2022

Twitter Files: the Hunter Biden affair

Di Matt Taibbi|2022-12-09T17:57:34+01:009 December 2022|Categorie: Commenti e opinioni, Cultura e Scienza|Tag: , , , , |0 Commenti

What you’re about to read is the first installment in a series, based upon thousands of internal documents obtained by sources at Twitter. The “Twitter Files” tell an incredible story from inside one of the world’s largest and most influential social media platforms.

16 Nov 2022

University, culture and performance: reflections around the Rossignoli case

Di Lorenzo Bernasconi|2022-11-16T14:24:21+01:0016 November 2022|Categorie: Commenti e opinioni, Cultura e Scienza|Tag: , , , , |1 Commento

With all due respect to U.S. universities and their Italian imitations, only a model of education and assessment focused on the human and cultural growth of the student is capable of grasping and enhancing the enormous complexity of the human mind and its modes of learning.

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