Once upon a time on the island of Crete, maybe about 1325 BC, there was a king whose name was Minos (in the story; this is only a story). He had living in his palace at Knossos a great architect and inventor named Daedalos. There...

The Pygmalion effect, or Rosenthal  effect, refers to the phenomenon in which the greater the expectation placed upon people, often children or students, the better they perform. The effect is named after Pygmalion, a Cypriot sculptor in a narrative...

“On a recent visit to Kazakhstan, in Central Asia, I had the chance to accompany some hunters who still use the falcon as a weapon. I don’t want to get into a discussion here about the word ‘hunt’, except to say that, in this case, Nature was...

In Madrid lives Norma, a very special Brazillian lady. The Spanish call her “the rocking grandma”. She is over sixty and works in various places, organizing promotions, parties and concerts. Once, at about four in the morning, when I was so tired...