Billionaire Mathematician
The Financial Times has described James Harris Simons as “the world’s smartest billionaire,” amassing a fortune through the clever use of mathematics and computers. He is now a renowned philanthropist.
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Manuel Suárez Mier’s Columns
Manuel’s generosity with Sepgra began early in the short life of its existence. While reading one of his columns published in The Asia Times, it was not possible not to ask his permission to reproduce it here. His response was “by all means, not only …
Manuel Suárez Mier
Our dear and admired friend José Manuel Suárez Mier is no longer with us physically, but will always be in our memory. He was a regular and highly valued contributor to this young venture. His untimely passing is an invaluable loss for his many friends, …
Sepgra’s First Anniversary.
It was during the uncertain times in the middle of the pandemic. Hospitals were operating at full capacity; Covid 19 immobilized people all over the world, and the headlines were about how people were learning to live in captivity, working from home; convenience stores had …
The Prophet’s Jam
Juan Villoro Perfumes include stinky ingredients, metaphysics is meaningless without physics, and certain people are contradictory. The elusive Michel de Nostradamus was born in 1503 in Provence. He was one of the brightest and darkest figures of his century. An event defined his fate: the …
Warren Buffett’s Annual Letter to Berkshire Hathaway Shareholders
Following his six decades tradition, last night Warren Buffett published his Letter to Shareholders, full of wisdom and anecdotes, besides relevant data on the conglomerate’s performance as a whole and of its components. Since it is a must-read for investors worldwide, we publish it in …
How can Emergence Explain Reality?
Robert L. Kuhn’s Closer to Truth Series presents some enlightened answers in this episode. Does ordinary stuff have mysterious properties? Take anything; find all its parts; combine those parts any way you like. What do you expect? Nothing at all like what you have. It’s …
Happy Easter, Passover Seder, Spring.
Hallelujah by G. F. Händel performed like never before. More than 350 voices united, virtually, in a great song of optimism. Suggested by LBTK
Buon Compleanno Venezia 421-2021
March 25, 421 – 2021 🎂 Happy 1600th birthday Venice! Today we celebrate the 1600th anniversary of the foundation of the City of #Venezia 🔸 A city that, since the time of the Serenissima Republic, has been da Mar and Stato da Tera and which, …
The Left Hand
Juan Villoro Vicente Rojo was seven years old when his mother had to sell the piano. His father, who belonged to the Communist Party, had gone into exile in Mexico after the Civil War, and it would take Vicente ten years to reach him. In …