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Newton da Costa
Newton da Costa: Passion and contradiction
The mathematician who created paraconsistent logic has three books republished
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
By Marcos de Oliveira and Mariluce Moura
Maria Luiza Tucci Carneiro
Maria Luiza Tucci Carneiro: The “undesirable” race
Concern with racial prejudice hides the historical anti-Semitism in Brazilian society
By Carlos Haag
Alexandre Kalache
Alexandre Kalache: A policy for ageing well
Creator of age-friendly cities says that this issue is important for the country's development
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Léa Velho: The need for a Brazilian view of science
Unicamp researcher discusses the challenges necessary to improve Brazil's academic production
By Fabrício Marques and Ricardo Zorzetto
Luiz Hildebrando P. da Silva
On the banks of the Madeira river
Sanitation expert speaks as chemotherapy that can block the action of parasites
By Claudia Izique and Ricardo Zorzetto
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Luis Fernandes: The motor of development
Finep President modernizes management to turn technological innovation into an agent of growth
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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Simon Schwartzman: The science critic
Former IBGE president analyzes the social impact of the provincial notions of Brazilian universities
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Henrique Lins de Barros: From the atom to the airplane
LÉO RAMOSIn Henrique Lins de Barros’s office at CBPF, the Brazilian Physics Research Center in the district of Urca, in the city of Rio de Janeiro, there is a picture on the wall on the right. On the left side there is a poster showing details of a multicellular organism, Candidatus Magnetoglobus multicellularis. In the... View Article
Sérgio Mascarenhas
Sérgio Mascarenhas: Physics in the current world
The impact of condensed matter physics on the contemporary world
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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
By Mariluce Moura and Neldson Marcolin
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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
By Fabrício Marques and Mariluce Moura
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Lilia Moritz Schwarcz: Almost blacks, almost whites
Anthropologist Lilia Schwarcz discusses the link between science and racism in Brazil
By Carlos Haag
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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Angelo Machado: Between books and dragonflies
GLÁUCIA RODRIGUESResearcher Angelo Machado has the habit of taking big leaps from time to time. Graduated as a physician, he specialized in neuroanatomy. Once retired, he entered an entrance exam for zoology and became a renowned entomologist. When 50 years old, he began to write books for children and is an acclaimed author. Simultaneously with... View Article
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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
By Mariluce Moura and Neldson Marcolin
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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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Cylon Gonçalves: Physicist, politician, executive
Physicist Cylon Gonçalves talks about his experience at university, in government and in private enterprise, and about the difficulties in producing innovation
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Francisco Salzano: A geneticist of polemic opinions
Francisco Salzano recalls his work with the Indians, speaks about the concept of race and defends research with transgenics and stem cells.
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We and the monkeys
The Director of the Max Planck Institute of Evolutionary Anthropology researches what makes us different from the chimpanzee
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Angelita Habr-Gama: Victory in a mine field
MIGUEL BOYAYANThe medical doctor Angelita Habr-Gama has three personality traits common to successful professionals: perseverance, a huge capacity for work and contagious optimism. Together with these qualities is an enormous talent in her specialty, surgery of the digestive tract, which is sufficient to separate out professor Angelita from the role of the highly successful person... View Article
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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
By Fabrício Marques and Mariluce Moura
José Sebastião Witter
José Sebastião Witter: A life in the classroom
A life in the classroom
Nelson Pereira dos Santos
Nelson Pereira dos Santos: An immortal filmmaker
Filmmaker Nelson Pereira dos Santos, director of the masterpiece Barren Lives, talks about his career and life
By Penha Rocha