Last weekend I met an old friend of mine in Zagreb. I didn’t see him for at least a decade. We were best friends in elementary school, we went through high school together, as for universities our paths got separated; he chose computer science in Zagreb while I went to study pharmacy in Trieste.
As the conversation progressed and as we were filling the gaps of what each of us has been doing in the past ten years, my friend has brief me in on a very cool project called [Duolingo](ww.duolingo.com). He was quite fascinated by the idea behind it and by its realisation while I was surprised that I never heard of it before.
I like to think of me as a very informed individual plus I work in a scientific environment that by definition is filled with informed individuals, however Duolingo seems to just past me by. At first I thought, surely it is something very recent. No, it isn’t. It has been...

I am about to start a blog, although I’m not yet sure how I want it to be. Or better, I wasn’t sure how I wanted to be, so I have decided to share my initial doubts with the general public.

First, the language. Probably it will be mostly English, but since I am from Croatia and I currently live in Italy, I am thinking to write on these two languages the topics which concerns matters of these two countries.

Second, the topic. At the first I wanted it to be a blog about chemistry. The reason was quite simple; I’m a chemist (well actually I am a pharmacist who got Ph.D degree in organic chemistry and currently working in the field of nanotechnology) so I should write about chemistry. However I have a bit reconsider that decision, I will write about chemistry but not just about chemistry. So you should expect to read posts about science and technology (I’m a big history fan so I wouldn’t...