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Home > Archives > Issue 8 (2018)

Op-Ed articles

Editorial Martí Domínguez

PDF 3

Challenges and difficulties for a Vice-Principal for Research Carlos Hermenegildo

PDF 5

Towards a new biological science of language Jaume Bertranpetit

PDF 264

Documentary texts

The role of the brain in financial decisions: A viewpoint on neuroeconomics Guillermo Mateu, Lucas Monzani, Roger Muñoz Navarro

PDF 6-15

Nature as a political question: Alexander von Humboldt and power networks Bernat Lladó i Mas

PDF 16-23

The millennium problems. Challenges to further mathematics

Old mathematical challenges: Precedents to the millennium problems Sergio Segura de León

PDF 27-33

The Riemann hypothesis: The great pending mathematical challenge Pilar Bayer

PDF 35-41

Navier-Stokes equations: Unpredictability even without butterflies? Xavier Mora

PDF 43-49

The Hodge conjecture: The complications of understanding the shape of geometric spaces Vicente Muñoz Velázquez

PDF 51-57

The Poincaré conjecture: A problem solved after a century of new ideas and continued work María Teresa Lozano Imízcoz

PDF 59-67

Sapiens. In the path of the human being

Evolution of the ‘Homo’ genus: New mysteries and perspectives Jordí Agustí

PDF 71-77

History and reality of the genus ‘Homo’: What is it and why do we think so? Ian Tattersall

PDF 79-89

A brief history of palaeogenomics: How a young discipline revolutionised the study of the past Carles Lalueza-Fox

PDF 91-97

Out of Africa: An alternative scenario for the first human dispersal in Eurasia Jordí Agustí, David Lordkipanidze

PDF 99-105

‘Homo sapiens’: who are we? Essential traits of our species Eudald Carbonell, José María Bermúdez de Castro, Robert Sala

PDF 107-113

The seed of 'La Evolución': The development of human palaeontology in Spain in recent decades Antonio Rosas

PDF 114-121

The scam of pseudoscience

How connected are the major forms of irrationality? An analysis of pseudoscience, science denial, fact resistance and alternative facts Sven Ove Hansson

PDF 125-131

Whence pseudoscience? An epidemiological approach Stefaan Blancke, Maarten Boudry, Johan Braeckman

PDF 133-139

From creationism to economics: How far should analyses of pseudoscience extend? Taner Edis

PDF 141-147

Dismantling the rhetoric of alternative medicine: Smokescreens, errors, conspiracies, and follies Edzard Ernst, Angelo Fasce

PDF 149-155

Pseudoscience and bad science in biomedicine: Analysis of evidence, health risks, and media dissemination Gonzalo Casino

PDF 157-163

Divan couches and gurus: The origin and dangers of clinical pseudopsychology Angelo Fasce

PDF 165-171

The appeal-to-nature fallacy: Homeopathy and biodynamic agriculture in official EU regulations José Miguel Mulet

PDF 173-179

Aircraft clouds: From chemtrail pseudoscience to the science of contrails Jordi Mazon, Marcel Costa, David Pino

PDF 181-187

To what extent do pseudosciences affect teachers? A look at the mindset of science teachers in training Jordi Solbes Matarredona, Rafael Palomar Fons, María Consuelo Domínguez Sales

PDF 188-195

How to be a critical but reasonable debater: Suggestions for critically addressing pseudoscientists and other similar groups Jesús Alcolea Banegas

PDF 197-202

Narrating health. Literature and medicine

Vacation stories: Santiago Ramón y Cajal’s fiction Susana Collado-Vázquez, Jesús María Carrillo

PDF 207-213

Literature in medical teaching: The crucial importance of literature in the education of medical students Josep Eladi Baños, Elena Guardiola

PDF 215-221

Virginia Woolf: Between writing and disease Josep Ballester-Roca, Noelia Ibarra-Rius

PDF 223-229

A science fiction implant: Organ transplants in literature Xavier Duran

PDF 231-237

Guilt, daily life, and love: AIDS narratives in the time of triple therapies Karen Poe Lang

PDF 239-245

Death and literature: Different approaches, from simplicity to obscurity John Skelton

PDF 247-253

Sanatoriums in contemporary narratives: ‘The sea’, by Blai Bonet Adéla Koťátková

PDF 255-260

Texts in the journal are –unless otherwise indicated– published under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License

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