Mariluce Moura

Jesús Martín-Barbero

Jesús Martín-Barbero: The combined forms of the media

The communication's theoretical analyzes the internet revolution

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Edison Luiz Durigon

Edison Luiz Durigon: High-risk intimacy

Virologist speaks of the threat of H1N1 and of continuous virus mutations

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Sergio Re­zende

Sergio Re­zende: Politics with science

Physicist commands the Ministry of Science and Technology in Brazil

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LETTER FROM THE EDITOR | 159

An invitation to exercise the imagination

An invitation to exercise the imagination

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Art

Organic forms

Hélio de Almeida launches book with a selection of his best work

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Maria Immacolata V. de Lopes

Maria Immacolata Vassallo de Lopes: TV soap opera, the Brazilian narrative

Professor examines why the soap opera is a favorite folktale

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Manning Marable

Manning Marable: Living black history

Professor argues that re-inventing the past could re-shape the USA's racial future

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Interview

João Paulo dos Reis Velloso: A new world in the Tropics?

An economist believes that Brazil can become number one among emerging countries

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José de Souza Martins

José de Souza Martins: Sociology examining the edges of society, dreams and hope

Sociology examining the edges of society, dreams and hope

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Interview

Fernando Haddad: Against fragmentation

Minister explains the Education Development Plan

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Journals

Thinking about communication

USP launches publication to debate the theoretical frontiers of the subject

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Neuroscience

Connection without frontiers

Cutting edge experiments with the brain travel from Duke University to Natal

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José Sérgio Gabrielli

José Sérgio Gabrielli de Azevedo: “Let’s not downgrade petroleum now”

An interview with the economist and President of Petrobras

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Interview

Paul Leduc: Cinema that is full of life

Mexican director is honored at São Paulo Festival

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Optical Fiber

A history of glass and light

Optical fiber expanded in Brazil until cover 1 million km

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Sérgio Mascarenhas

Sérgio Mascarenhas: Physics in the current world

The impact of condensed matter physics on the contemporary world

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Interview

Esper Abrão Cavalheiro: The reconstruction of man

Given its potential for profoundly altering human performance, the new convergence of technologies must be debated by the scientific community

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Interview

Claudia Bauzer Medeiros: Computer science in the future

MIGUEL BOYAYANResearcher Claudia Bauzer Medeiros leads quite a busy academic life: a professor at the Computer Science Center of the State University of Campinas (Unicamp) for the last 20 years, her extensive academic output has involved over 30 projects in the field of scientific databases, mainly as applied to biodiversity and agro-environmental planning. “The Unicamp... View Article

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Indicators

It is up to the companies now

Meeting evaluates the performance of scientific and innovative development

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Neuroscience

Science with a social mission

A plan follows the inauguration of the Natal Neuroscience Institute

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José Sérgio Gabrielli

José Sérgio Gabrielli de Azevedo: “Let’s not downgrade petroleum now”

An interview with the economist and President of Petrobras

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Plastination

Anatomy Lesson

"Bodies... the exhibition" shows a fascinating spectacle of the human anatomy

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Cover

Connection without frontiers

Experiments with the brain wants to help to transform needy communities

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Interview

Thomaz Farkas: Optimist and raving, but not too much

EDUARDO CESARIn a 15-minute documentary made by Walter Lima Júnior in 2004, at one point Thomaz Farkas, 82 years old, tells that he ought to have been born in Brazil, because in 1924 his parents were already living over here. Without many resources, when the moment of the birth drew close, they asked Farkas’s maternal... View Article

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Interview

Paulo Sérgio Pinheiro: Violence without limits

A UN study coordinated by a Brazilian sociologist reveals that children are the victims of mistreatment and aggression throughout the world, at all classes and environments, whilst society accepts the phenomenon with complacency

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Global warming

Al Gore’s crusade

A film uses marketing to convert skeptics to the defense of the environment

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Interview

Fernando Birri: A constructor of utopias

A constructor of utopias

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Cover

Intimate visions of the brain

Scientists scrutinize the cortex in search of emotional signals

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Interview

Emilio Moran: A world in change

MIGUEL BOYAYANWhen he talks about global climatic changes, anthropologist Emilio Moran seems capable of catching the attention of even the most skeptical of the anti-environmentalists. Perhaps because, instead of only detaining himself on numbers – whether of animal and plant species in the process of extinction, or of more or less degrees Celsius of the... View Article

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Popularization

Insights from the North and Northeast

Faps join up to publish a magazine about the diversity of their production

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