The Seneca Effect Blog is returning! You can find it on Substack at this address: https://senecaeffect.substack.com/ After that the origi...

  The Seneca Effect blog closes down for the reasons explained in a previous post . But the spirit and the ideas of Seneca and his modest mo...

The Internet is full of angry people shouting insults at each other. Take it easy, fellows, do as a good stoic would do. Accept the will of ...

  Dennis Meadows (left in the image) and Ugo Bardi in Berlin, 2016 A few days ago, I received a message from Dennis Meadows, one of the auth...

Most people seem to think that kings and queens are little more than useless parasites. Yet, I think they could be useful in some circumstan...

  "El jardín de senderos que se bifurcan" (J.L. Borges) Recently, Simon Michaux  argued  that the transition to renewable energy i...

  Many times, Italy was a political laboratory that influenced the rest of the world. Just think of Mussolini and, more recently, how a gove...

  Galileo Galilei and Anthony Fauci are linked to each other by a chain of events that started at the beginning of modern science, during th...

  I am still reading paper books. I think they favor concentration in a way that on-screen books cannot provide. Books are also one of the f...

  In 2018, I published on my "Cassandra's Legacy" blog a post titled, " Why, in a Few Years, Nobody Will be Talking About...