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The mechanism of gossip is very simple and can be summarized as follows: A hypocrite creates a rumor so that the gossip spreads it and the gullible believes it. In practice, three actors are needed for the correct spread of gossip: the hypocrite, the gossip and the naive. However, there is an antidote to this … Read more

Obsessive people hate washing dishes. That is, they love the moment when everything is clean and tidy again, but they hate that feeling of inadequacy of dirty dishes piled up haphazardly in the sink, the dining room table, the coffee table, under the bed, in the bathroom, in the car, and in all the other … Read more

If life were easy then it wouldn’t be fun. I mean, obviously if I was born into a super-rich family and my only concern was finding new ways to spend the money I have in my bank account I would be disgustingly happy. But I would also be bored and then I would have to … Read more

Once upon a time, to have an existential crisis you had to wait until you were fifty, leave your wife, buy a single-seater, spend half your savings on Prada and go and command the disco with a convoluted comb-over. Now it seems that the world travels at double speed and the consequence is that the … Read more

The period when children start kindergarten is one of the periods when many questions need to be answered for every parent. Many issues such as whether the kindergarten where the child will be sent is safe and whether the child is appropriate for his/her age confuse parents a lot. Parents can have a hard time … Read more