In technical terms memory is a process through which your mind transforms external stimuli into storable information that can be later retrieved. The sound of ‘Honey, don’t forget the milk’ is encoded by your ears and stored up to the point where you remember it in the supermarket. Or you don’t […]
When an important event occurs our mind translates the external stimuli associated with it and stores that information to be later retrieved as memories. We nostalgically remember good memories (while trying to forget bad ones) in terms of location, time and ‘mental shots’ (our recollection of the event). Our memories define […]
‘Give me your phone to call your father, mine died’. Since that request came from my mother I had to comply but had shivers down my spine thinking what if she accidentally starts browsing through my photos, through my browser history, social accounts and so on. Not that I had anything […]
IRS. If you’re an American the name crawls in your mind and then onto your spine making you shiver. It’s the Internal Revenue Service, the agency responsible of collecting taxes and enforcing the tax laws. Most countries have a revenue agency, a governmental institution that collects revenue from the citizens in […]
You might not recognize Aaron Fechter by his name but for sure you recognize some of his creations. First of all, one of his companies was part of the merger that created Chuck E. Cheese’s, a chain of pizza entertaining restaurants worth close to one billion dollars. Then, he created one […]
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In 1817 Berzelius, the father of the modern chemistry, named a newly discovered element ‘lithium’, after the Greek word equivalent to ‘stone’ (because of the […]
‘Back to the Future’ was one of those movies that you know you’ll never forget. I’ve watched the trilogy countless times and there is one scene that helped me on becoming a calmer driver. In part 3 there’s a scene where Marty gets a new truck and at an intersection he […]
I spent most of my childhood summers in the country at my grandparent’s house because the air was fresher, the food was natural and most likely because my parents were tired of raising a kid. No problem at all, I actually enjoyed those summers and now, when I spend most of […]
Sometime ago in our history someone thought of inventing a card game revolving around the number 21. Don’t know why 21 and always thought it had something to do with Americans and their ‘you cannot buy drinks under 21’ policy. However it seems that the first written reference of the game […]
You never forget a game that made history. I remember when I first discovered an Arcade machine for SpaceInvaders, the first shoot ‘em up game I played. It was a game room close to my school and for months to come a machine like the one below was where all my […]
