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...

  Benito Mussolini in 1922: is this the face of evil? Maybe, but Mussolini was not worshiping evil deities, he was not eating babies, he was...

  An image of the "March on Rome" of the Fascist blackshirts that took place a hundred years ago, in October 1922, and that brough...

  The " Zombie Fungus " Cordyceps kills an ant after having taken control of its neural system. Could something like that happen i...

  My blog titled "Chimeras" explores mainly mythological and literary themes, but the world we call "real" is often int...

I n the game of chess, you win when you eliminate your opponent's king. In the real world, instead, killing the enemy leader is a much l...