Can a single dissenting voice change the minds of eleven others? Drawing on 12 Angry Men, an experiment with a real audience, and Mark Granovetter’s
Why do people cooperate… and why do they stop? The Platform 2 proposes a system of rules, punishments, and leaders to solve selfishness — but
Why are there no Priuses in Mad Max? And what does that have to do with your football team going bankrupt — or with glass
This autumn, I had the opportunity to participate in Cita a Ciencias, an original science outreach initiative created by Sonia Elizondo and Josu Irisarri and
This Friday, I was able to participate once again in Researchers’ Night at the Civican Auditorium in Pamplona. Many thanks to the UPNA’s Scientific Culture
The Sicómoro Foundation, a non-profit organization dedicated to science and the study of complexity, interviewed me through Adrian (aka @elfisicobarbudo). You can listen to it
If there is something that I like as much as know and understand stuff, is to transmit them in a fun way and trying to provide easy explanations of thing that can be hard to understand. There is little things more pleasant than getting others to understand your passion for something and awakening interest in them.
For that reason I try to do it whenever I can and in all formats that I can. Articles, both here and in Lasoga.org, videos on my Youtube channel Think Twice Show and collaborations in others, paritcipations in Famelab editions, Unsomnia and other talks, radio programs, activities…
Mostly I talk about topics related to my field. But I also talk about science in general, especially about topics related to pseudoscience and magical thinking. The basis of the scientific method is critical thinking. Rely on evidence, being aware of our own biases, doubting everything and recognizing what we do not know is the key to getting to know something.
© Bernardo García Pola