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youkali magazine critical of the arts and of thought No. 13, July 2012. What right? Youkali is a magazine published by tierradenadie editions . Index: . What right? – Carlos Rivera Lugo: The time of the not-right – Juan Domingo Sánchez Estop: The exchange between equals the debt – Warren Montag: outside the law: Schmitt, […]

Zotero is a manager or handler of bibliographical references, of free access, which works as an extension to the Firefox browser. Allows users to create their own database (library) where you can: save, manage, search, organize, and cite sources of all types. Zotero resides in your Firefox browser, but the Standalone version in Alpha (desktop) […]

“Monadología” Extract When you reason about something, we imagine to have an idea of this thing, and this is the foundation on which some philosophers ancient and modern have formed a certain demonstration of the existence of God, which is very imperfect.As they say it is necessary for me to have an idea of God […]

People tend to have a certain idea of how certain events may affect our emotional lives long-term. We hope that events such as losing a child, be fired from your job, receive an award for our contribution to scientific, to suffer a marriage break-up,… because of its importance, leave us a footprint significant emotional that […]

Studies on the effects that it can have the use of the new technologies on our ways of thinking are the most diverse. Recently, Wray Herbert has reviewed a new study in The Huffington Post about an original theme: at the time of taking notes in class, is it better to do it by hand […]

There is a cliché that says that in the family meals should not be talking politics. And is that the policy is able to flourish our side more intolerant, which can harm our relations with the closest people. Family dinners are not the only contexts in which it is not advisable to talk about politics. […]

Three years ago (how time flies), I published in this blog post the review of a study that analyzed the face more negative emotional intelligence. According to the authors, the ability to regulate one’s own emotions may foster the attainment of both good and bad purposes, strengthening the relationship between certain personality traits and behaviors […]

The psychologist Dan Ariely has become famous for his study of irrationality and how it affects us. That study has led him to become interested in the desire and by the lie. It’s been a couple of years ago that was published in Spain his book why we lie (a translation is quite free of […]

The pursuit of happiness has become one of the most important issues in our societies, a trend exacerbated by times of economic crisis, social and political that we are suffering. We are surrounded by messages that invite us to seek happiness. And although many of these messages can be honest, what is true is that […]

A few months ago, the philosopher Gregory Currie published an interesting article in The Stone, an opinion blog in the New York Times, in which he wondered if it really read “great literature” makes us better people. Currie claimed that despite being a widespread belief, the evidence in favor of this idea is rather poor. […]