THE GLOBETROTTER... stories that bond

The history of the horse has been intertwined with that of human beings since time immemorial. Our shared journey began millions of years ago: its ancestor, Eohippus, appeared around 55 million years ago and, after a long evolutionary path, gave rise to the genus Equus approximately 3 million years ago. Since then, the horse has become one of humanity’s most loyal and powerful partners. Domestication began around 4,500 years ago, on the vast plains of Eurasia, near the Volga

Nicholas was born in Patara, a small coastal town in the region of Lycia, in present-day Turkey, in the 4th century, into a wealthy family who raised him in the Christian doctrine.He was orphaned at a young age and, recalling the Gospel passage of the Rich Young Man , devoted all the wealth he inherited to helping the sick and the poor. He was appointed Bishop of Myra and, under the rule of Emperor Diocletian, was exiled and imprisoned.After being released, he took part in th

It could be a post about the music of Simon and Garfunkel. Silence, in truth and scientifically speaking, should only exist in absolute form in outer space. The very concept is, in itself, challenging: the existence of an absence. We overuse a single immediate sense — vision — relegating all the others. Sound, however, we give a completely different kind of importance. But do we really listen? Sounds are one of the foundations of our evolution. Through them, we developed abil