A Question of Melatonin, Vitamin D, and Ariane Purity
Ten thousand years ago, Europeans had dark skin and blue eyes. Modern genetics has debunked the myth of Aryan purity: pale skin is merely a simple metabolic expedient for synthesizing vitamin D.
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Monopoly with other people's money: the anatomy of the great financial banquet
How do investment funds buy healthy companies, burdening them with their own debt, and consistently profit while the middle class slides toward the abyss? A lucid and uncompromising journey into the tricks of predatory finance, to understand what lies ahead and why sitting idly by is no longer an option.
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Ode to the sly tail-chaser
Oh you, little sovereign of the shortcut, who slips into the fast lane as if it were your home, and then slips in at the last second where there is no space, between a trunk and a hood, between patience (of others) and petty infamy (yours), between two people who just want to get home or to work without meeting someone like…
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Six months without social media. And how wonderful it is not to know what you're doing!
Let's get one thing straight: I didn't slam the door of Facebook, Instagram, and TikTok. I walked toward it slowly, brick by brick, accumulating years of disillusionment, annoyance, and finally, a lucid and definitive disgust. My relationship with social media has always been conflicted: from the naive enthusiasm of the early years—look at all the opportunities, all the connections,…
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Mirano Market: when the past embraces you among the stalls.
Last Monday, thanks to a car service and a day off work that almost by chance fell into place, I found myself in Mirano for the weekly market—a leap into the past that took me straight back to the Wednesdays in Abano, when as a child I accompanied my mother or grandmother in that pagan rite that was much more than just…
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Delusions of Omnipotence and Other Cosmic Jokes
We feel like giants, then the universe reminds us we're microbes. An ironic and melancholic reflection on the delusions of human omnipotence and the beauty of feeling small.
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Why I'm Pausing Social Media (And You Should Too)
My progressive digital detox experiment lasted 153 days, during which I confirmed one thing: social networks are no longer public squares. They are algorithmic slaughterhouses where we are bred to be commodities (or monsters).
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Metal-FM.com – Interview with Ricky Guariento
Ricky Guariento discusses Symphonic Reverie with Metal-FM: 8 minutes of algorithm-defying progressive metal. An Italian-Japan collaboration, musical philosophy, and the RickyVerse.
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When Music Speaks Louder than Algorithms
Metal Planet Media shares Ricky Guariento's "Symphonic Reverie": 8:32 minutes of prog/symphonic metal that challenges the tyranny of the algorithm. Read the story.
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The Superpower of the Eternally Undecided
Do you feel eternally indecisive? Maybe it's not a flaw, but a superpower. Discover why those who see infinite possibilities aren't insecure, but profound explorers of reality.
