The Newsletter is back this week – get ready to continue getting closer to our goal: what happens when two black holes collide? A couple of weeks ago we discovered the theory of special relativity, and learnt that space and time are actually part of the same thing, spacetime. We saw some instances that show… Read more

WARNING: nerd alert – don’t attempt reading this newsletter unless you are, at heart, a true nerd who thinks that black holes and galaxies are (somehow) a cool thing! If you are, however, I promise the read will be worth it! Today we are going to talk about gravitational waves. Or, well, to be honest… Read more

Today we’re going back to the nutrition side of the Newsletter. Christian Finn is here to tell us, for once and for all, whether it’s healthy to have breakfast (in terms of weight control). Is skipping breakfast to lose weight a good or a bad idea?  After all, we’ve been told for years that breakfast… Read more

Today, I wanted to share with you some ideas from the German Friedrich Nietzsche, one of the finest philosophers in history -and one of the most frequently misunderstood and misquoted. Though his books are rather difficult to read (he has a powerful, direct style, yet he insists on shrouding some of his best ideas within… Read more

The Newsletter is officially back from the summer! Now, let’s discuss death. (Yes, really.) Today our ambassador to this rather profound topic is Mark Manson, great blogger and the author of the must-read book The subtle art of not giving a f*ck. His main source of inspiration for this article is actually another writer, Charles… Read more

Today I take the content directly from the true and irreplaceable Brain Pickings. And our topic will be the also irreplaceable Oliver Sacks – a largehearted genius of ceaseless eccentricity, who collects spectacles and dreams of fern salad and writes with a fountain pen and has never emailed or texted or owned a computer; who,… Read more