by Emma Tristán | May 21, 2025 | Articles
In 2016, Jurgen and I visited Playa Ventanas for the first time, in Ojochal, in the Pacific Southwest of Costa Rica. It is very easy to get to: it is about 30 km south of Dominical, on the Costanera Sur. I remember it was a weekday and there was no one on the beach....
by Emma Tristán | May 6, 2025 | Articles
Visiting the cultural centre in Trench Town was the best decision we made during our trip to Jamaica. Not only did we learn, in a more genuine way, how Bob Marley got his start in music, but we also discovered Stoneman. Stoneman was next to the main building, in an...
by Jurgen Ureña | May 4, 2025 | Articles
In his wildly imaginative book Imaginary Magnitude (1973), Polish author Stanislaw Lem introduces Eruntics, a fictional treatise in which a philosopher describes how he taught English to a colony of bacteria. These microbes, according to Lem, communicate via Morse...
by Larissa Fernandez | May 1, 2025 | Articles
When I read about the ecological challenges facing Latin America, I realize how urgent it is to change our perspective. I’m increasingly convinced that education is one of the most powerful tools we must address these challenges. In our region, biodiversity is a true...
by Emma Tristán | Apr 2, 2025 | Articles
In January 1854, after a three-month journey from Germany to San Juan del Norte, in Nicaragua, naturalist Carl Hoffman was about to arrive to Costa Rican. The greatest adventure of his life was about to begin. With his friends, Alexander von Frantzius and Julian...
by Emma Tristán | Mar 7, 2025 | Articles
In the 1960s, Rachel Carson wrote Silent Spring (1962): one of the most influential works on environmental protection ever written. Her message went viral, long before that concept became popular. In 2018, Greta Thurnberg, at just 15 years old, challenged world...
