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#Presépio 2024

Os Reis Magos vem de longe, por um lado, e a família da Valderes e do Aloyzio, acompanham pelo outro. Aproveitamos para agradecer por todo o carinho, atenção e cuidados que tivemos no corrente ano, e desejamos a todos os amigos, e aos visitantes eventuais, um Feliz Natal

# Júlia e Eduardo, nossa primeira neta e o último neto

Filhos de nosso primeiro filho, Professor Luiz Eduardo Robinson Achutti. Ela se gradua em Design, e ele formou-se na Universidade de Roma, e segue na pósgraduação em Economia em Turim

# GABRIEL GARCÍA MÁRQUEZ

"Devemos lançar aos oceanos do tempo uma garrafa de náufragos siderais, para que o universo saiba de nós o que não contarão as baratas que nos sobreviverão: que aqui existiu um mundo onde prevaleceu o sofrimento e a injustiça; porém onde conhecemos o amor e onde fomos capazes de imaginar a felicidade".

# ESCOTEIRO LOURIVAL FRANCISCO DOS SANTOS JR.

Não foi em Colégio Marista, mas de 1950-52 fui escoteiro (Pioneiro:escoteiro sênior) em Santa Maria na Clã Ibitory Retan, dirigido pelo Cefe Victor Schuch. No dia 15 recebi a visita do chefe Lourival daqui de Porto Alegre, apresentando seu livro. https://a.co/d/40QJbG1

AA em outubro de 1950. Escoteiro Sênior, mas não foi em Colégio Marista. O Chefe de nosso Clan - Ibitory Retan - era o Victor Schuch (avô do atual reitor da UFSM)

#Bezerrinha Nova no Sítio Primavera, em Viamão

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Each week Quanta Magazine explains one of the most important ideas driving modern research. This week, math staff writer Joseph Howlett details the beauty and importance of mathematical thinking.   Math Is About Thinking Differently By JOSEPH HOWLETT Until a little over a year ago, I was an experimental physicist. I used math all the time, so you might expect that becoming a math journalist would be well within my comfort zone. In many ways that’s true. But in others, my new intellectual home planet feels like an alien world./.../ The Year in Review Each year, Quanta’s editors collect the most interesting, impactful developments in fundamental science and math. The Year in Math By JORDANA CEPELEWICZ Landmark results in geometry and number theory marked an exciting year for mathematics, at a time when advances in artificial intelligence are starting to transform the subject’s future. READ THE ARTICLE WATCH THE VIDEO The Year in Physics By NATALIE WOLCHOVER Physicists discovered strange supersolids, constructed new kinds of superconductors, and continued to make the case that the cosmos is far weirder than anyone suspected. READ THE ARTICLE WATCH THE VIDEO The Year in Biology By HANNAH WATERS Biologists used artificial intelligence to make discoveries about molecules and the brain, and overturned long-held assumptions about the immune system and RNA. READ THE ARTICLE WATCH THE VIDEO The Year in Computer Science By BILL ANDREWS Researchers got a better look at the thoughts of chatbots, amateurs learned exactly how complicated simple systems can be, and quantum computers passed an essential milestone. READ THE ARTICLE WATCH THE VIDEO #  The Neuroscience of Shopping The same brain areas that respond to the reward of buying things are also the ones that respond to life’s other pleasures. Credit: Neuroscience News #  Americans’ life expectancy to crash to 66th in the world... lower than many sub-Saharan African nations (Daily Mail) Despite being one of the wealthiest nations, Americans already die younger than their equivalents in almost 50 countries. But ‘alarming trajectory of health challenges’, which includes rampant obesity, drug use and firearm suicides, is going to widen that gap, according to [IHME-led] research in The Lancet. Global, regional, and national age-sex-specific burden of diarrhoeal diseases, their risk factors, and aetiologies, 1990–2021, for 204 countries and territories Published December 18, 2024, in The Lancet Infectious Diseases (opens in a new window)(link is external)