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#Dra. Valderês A. Robinson Achutti (*13/06/1931+15/06/2021) 

Visitando os jardins do Vaticano, no século passado

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#Academia SR Medicina

 

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NUMBER THEORY | ALL TOPICS   New Proof Illuminates the Hidden Structure of Common Equations By LEILA SLOMAN Van der Waerden’s conjecture mystified mathematicians for 85 years. Its solution shows how polynomial roots relate to one another. Read the blog

THE JOY OF WHY   Why Is Inflammation a Dangerous Necessity? Podcast hosted by STEVEN STROGATZ The immune system protects us from a full spectrum of pathogens, but without balance, it can end up hurting us over time, too. The immunologist Shruti Naik explains how our defenses can turn on us. Listen to the podcast Read the transcript Q&A   Pondering the Bits That Build Space-Time By CHARLIE WOOD Video by EMILY BUDER Vijay Balasubramanian investigates whether the fabric of the universe might be built from information, and what it means that physicists can even ask such a question. Read the interview Watch the video   EVOLUTION   In Sexy Worms, Inheritance Beyond Genes Can Help Evolution By CARRIE ARNOLD Experiments that showed a surprising persistence of sexiness in worms reveal how much we are still learning about the rules governing heritability, epigenetics and natural selection. Read the article Related:  Inherited Learning? It Happens, but How Is Uncertain by Viviane Callier (2019) CRYPTOGRAPHY   Which Computational Universe Do We Live In? Here Are Five Possibilities. By ERICA KLARREICH In 1995, the computer scientist Russell Impagliazzo described five possible worlds with ascending levels of cryptographic possibility. Any of these could be the world we live in. Read the blog Related:  Cryptographers Achieve Perfect Secrecy With Imperfect Devices by Mordechai Rorvig Around the Web Batting Average Supaporn Wacharapluesadee was the first scientist outside of China to sequence SARS-CoV-2. Jon Cohen writes for Science about her efforts to prevent the next pandemic by finding novel bat viruses before they spill over to humans. There is growing support for focusing more science on animal viruses as a way to anticipate and prevent spillover to humans. In 2020 Rodrigo Pérez Ortega wrote for Quanta on recent research into self-disseminating vaccines for wildlife. Feeling Ghosted Neutrinos are perhaps the most puzzling particles in the Standard Model. Uncovering their mysteries could help us reveal the secrets of dark matter, too, as Jackson Ryan explains for CNET. Physicists think that several conflicting neutrino measurements could be resolved by introducing a new “dark sector” of particles. These particles might simultaneously explain dark matter and dark energy, Thomas Lewton wrote for Quanta in 2021.

#Nature

Five best science books this week Andrew Robinson’s pick of the top five science books to read this week includes an authoritative, coruscating analysis of artificial intelligence, a genetic history of inequality and an exploration of the use of electricity in medicine. Nature | 3 min read

#BBC earth

Celebrating our beautiful planet From the world’s smallest cat to spectacular hornbills plucking bats from the sky. This Earth Day explore the beauty and drama of our natural world with some of the most incredible natural history moments from BBC Earth!

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#Aeon Magazine

Thinkers and theories Essay The lady vanishes The history of ideas still struggles to remember the names of notable women philosophers. Mary Hesse is a salient example by Ann-Sophie Barwich

Mood and emotion Essay Primitive communism Marx’s idea that societies were naturally egalitarian and communal before farming is widely influential and quite wrong by Manvir Singh