Nezahualcóyotl, el rey-poeta

Cartas a un joven poeta -

Era en 1902, a fines de otoño. Estaba yo sentado en el parque de la Academia Militar de Wiener Neustadt, bajo unos viejísimos castaños, y leía en un libro. Profundamente sumido en la lectura, noté apenas cómo se llegó junto a mí Horacek, el sabio y bondadoso capellán de la Academia, el único entre nuestros profesores que no fuera militar. Me tomó el libro de las manos, contempló la cubierta y m...

Rey Hernández - Julián

Studies have shown that attractive people have higher earnings. In this paper, we test the hypothesis that physical attractiveness may be a proxy for unobserved productivity. We compare the impact of attractiveness on grades in college courses where instructors can directly observe the student’s appearance to courses where they do not. We confirm that appearance matters: attractive female stude...

"¡Ay, reino mal gobernado!": The Monarchy in Mira de Amescua’s Las desgracias del rey don Alfonso, el Casto

Poeta Doctus: Professor Slavko Perović, MD and his Amarcord.

Professor Slavko Perović, MD (Preko, Croatia, 17 Feb 1921- Zadar, 16 Jan 2007), a prominent citizen of Zadar and one of the Croatian leading paediatricians, was a man of numerous tastes and great culture. He used to say about himself that he was "an admirer of art and beauty" so that, in addition to his medical profession, he was engaged in photography and poetry. Neither did he neglect music, ...

Gambling Systems and Multiplication - Invariant MeasuresbyJe rey