Highlights

Engineering

Technical aid

An IPT program has been attending to micro and small companies

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Diplomacy

The Bones of the Baron

External politics is today a reason for heated and serious discussion

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Literature

Concrete obsession

Now dead for three years, the poet and essayist Sebasti

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History

A tropical Lady Macbeth

Letters from Dona Leopoldina reveal a political organizer who hated democracy

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Sociology

The exorcism of the Internet

Psychologists and lawyers advocate moderation in criticisms of the web

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Ethics

Between Virtue and Fortune

How to analyze political ethics without getting lost in moralism

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Retrospect

The rebirth of the Patriarch

A project publishes, on-line, documents, books and images brought together about José Bonifácio de Andrada e Silva

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Interview

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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Innovation

Foundation stone

Program offers R$ 450 million for innovative companies

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Intellectual Property

To disseminate knowledge

FAPESP gives up being owner of the patents generated by research projects

Environment

Buffer Zone

Study that proposed a protection zone for the Cantareira Park inspires a bill

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Technological parks

Flight plan

Support from government and Embraer speeds up project in São José dos Campos

Agriculture

The broom swept

Simple techniques show how to recover the cacao plantations

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Biochemistry

Like a dagger

Poison from the sting of a river stingray causes pain, swelling and necrosis

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Medicine

More attention to the female heart

Majority of physicians do not alert women to the risk of a heart attack

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