01.05.10
La Ciudad de las Ideas Re-Evolution presented the great debate between theologists and religious thinkers and the defenders of science....

01.01.10
One of the closing events for the La Ciudad de las Ideas 2009 Festival was the issuing of the Innovation for Humanity prize, whose objective is awarding the most innovative ideas for common good. It resulted in a tie again, now between Philip Zimbardo and Dan Ariely...

10.14.09
With the premise of not believing everything that is thought, politologist Francis Fukuyama, philosopher Daniel Dennett, scientists Karl Grammer and Christopher Hitchens...

10.07.09
Winners have been chosen for the La Ciudad de las Ideas (Ideas City) Festival

10.07.09
Can a marginal branch of mathematics be useful to predic the future?...

10.03.09
Neville Brody Guest Art Directs Arena Homme +

10.03.09
The two real life examples mentioned in this article show how people, when buying things, take wrong decisions. Anecdotes like this are now object of deep study...

10.03.09
Interview: Christopher Hitchens

10.02.09
Review: Frank Warren shares secrets we all have.

10.02.09
Open letter to scientists to “modernize” the Nobel Peace Prize

10.01.09
New study of the brain shows that facts and beliefs are processed in exactly the same way.

09.30.09
You've got to admire Jimmy Carter. No matter how wrong he is, no matter how many times he is refuted, no matter how inane his ramblings, he just keeps on coming back for more...

09.30.09
Is it Immoral to Donate to Harvard?

09.29.09
The most outstanding international scientists

09.28.09
Whoever fills their mouth saying that television is the stupid box and that contemplating it is allowing oneself to be abducted by it...

09.27.09
The tiff between Jerry Coyne and Robert Wright is getting even more hilarious...

09.27.09
Taleb Questions Talent of Wall St. Analysts

09.26.09
Surgery’s Past and Present

09.24.09
Malcolm Gladwell on college, the economy and those competitive Americans: Big Brain Week continues

09.24.09
The Second Iberian Congress on Primatology

09.23.09
Helen Fisher Says Women Are Web Thinkers Who’s Writing Can Change Governments

09.22.09
The Atlantic publishes an article by Christopher Hitchens about the phenomenon of liberal humorists turning into opinion leaders, debasing comedy and national conversation.

09.21.09
Open mind: The time traveler’s life

09.20.09
The current exhibit at the Morton Arboretum's Sterling Morton Library, "Darwin's Flowers: Unlocking Natural Selection," shows how Darwin studied plants to help validate his theories of evolution.

09.19.09
Anthropologist Helen Fisher affirmed: “Men like wet kisses with the mouth more open suggesting that they are unconsciously trying to transfer testosterone to trigger sexual conduct in women”

09.18.09
A nightmare for Richard Dawkins: statistics show that atheists are a dying breed

09.17.09
What about God? What about Christianity? What about Science and Reason?

09.17.09
Literary critic Terry Eagleton discusses his new book, Reason, Faith, and Revolution:

09.14.09
In his new book ‘The Evolution of God,’ Robert Wright takes his readers on a journey through the spiritual beliefs of our ancestors to the development of the three Abrahamic faiths:

09.10.09
Perhaps the most personal and most quintessentially human aspect of our existence is the experience of our ‘self.’ What contemporary philosopher Daniel Dennett has described as the unitary narration of our experience, the ‘author’ of our life. Artists, writers, philosophers and psychologists dedicate much of their attention to describing and discerning the kernels of the self…

09.07.09
Frank Warren, founder of the PostSecret blog, started a tour through US universitites with the purpose of liberating students from stress through sharing secrets.

09.07.09
Albert Einstein was a brilliant scientific mind, recognized for the theory of relativity; but behind closed doors he was a person of great contrasts. Andrés Roemer captures this figure’s distinct personalities through the voice of the three women that lived with him in his first play, The Other Einstein.

09.05.09
This week Steven Poole recommends three books in his column, The Next 100 Years, by George Friedman, Practitioneer by Bruce Bueno de Mesquita and What Happens Next? By Vernon Coleman.

09.04.09
Predictions: the COP-15 climate talks in Copenhagen will fail, according to Bruce Bueno de Mesquita

09.03.09
Since Reality Shows nowadays are going to be awarded Emmys, La Voz Digital publishes an article where this fact is commented citing Steven Johnson, speaker at La Ciudad de las Ideas (Ideas City) 2009, where he says that spectators like these shows, where “heroes” emerge with whom they create an emotional bond.

08.31.09
“The task of the scientific promoter is complicated. One of the most difficult obstacles that have to be overcome is the ‘high specialization that scientific development has reached’, since this ‘moves immediate comprehension by common men and women further away…’ (María Barrera de Aragón, Revista Colombiana de Física).”

08.31.09
This week, El Mundo publishes an article in which US-Colombia and neighboring countries relations, and the first months of the Obama administration from politologist Francis Fukuyama’s point of view, speaker at La Ciudad de las Ideas (Ideas City) Re-Evolution.

08.12.09
“By ‘dangerous ideas’ I don’t have in mind harmful technologies, like those behind weapons of mass destruction, or evil ideologies, like those of racist, fascist, or other fanatical cults.

08.08.09
Within the debate between Creationism and Evolution, journalist and scientific promoter Robert Wright, expert in evolutionary psychology...

08.08.09
Is the future a terrible scenario with pandemics, shortage of natural resources and pain, or is it just a great challenge for human beings to keep evolving supported by technology for survival?

07.31.09
In a post for TIME magazine online, Brad Tuttle shares references to Helen Fisher from two very different sources...

07.29.09
This column posted on the Sonoma County Democracy For America’s portal, has been “one of the hardest columns I’ve ever written” in the words of Rabbi Shmuley Boteach.

07.27.09
On an article posted on The Australian portal in the business section shared with the Wall Street journal, Simon Canning shares highlights of Cordelia Fine’s research which rejects...

07.25.09
In a lecture given at the University of Edinburgh, philosopher Daniel Dennett asks: “Is science showing that we don’t have free will?”

05.01.09
Innovation for Humanity prize to assist La Ciudad de las Ideas (Ideas City) 2009.

05.01.09
Eduard Punset showcases La Ciudad de las Ideas (Ideas City)’s efforts for the Popularization of Science in his Redes program on Spanish Television (TVE Televisión Española).

04.27.09
Your most dangerous questions take you to La Ciudad de las Ideas (Ideas City).

04.20.09
Ticket discounts for La Ciudad de las Ideas (Ideas City) 2009 soon.

04.15.09
Surprises in the La Ciudad de las Ideas (Ideas City)’s webpage.