Author: mauro
4th article that shaped my career: “The politics of publication.” Lawrence, 2003
“It will be a chilly day in hell before all the older scientists agree to change anything, much less something that currently benefits many of them.” Robert Insall This great…
3rd article that shaped my career: “Is an environmentally sustainable future for the European Community compatible with continued growth: carbon dioxide and the management of greed.” Slesser, 1993
I bumped into this article completely by chance. My former lab had a subscription of the journal ‘Science of the Total Environment’, and one day, while I was organizing the…
2nd article that shaped my career – “Uncertainty, Resource Exploitation, and Conservation: Lessons from History” Ludwig, Hilborn & Carl, 1993
Paul Kinas, professor os Statistics at FURG, introduced this article to me during his grad school course on Bayesian statistics. It is impressive how much I learned from Kinas and…
1st article that shaped my career: “The Spandrels of San Marco and the Panglossian Paradigm: A Critique of the Adaptationist Programme” – Gould & Lewontin, 1979
Euclydes Santos used this article during his course ‘Physiological adaptations to estuarine environment’, in graduate school. I seriously doubt that, even with all the interest that I have for everything…
Superspecialization and Knowledge Mosaicism in the Brain
Comedian Will Rogers said that “Everyone is Ignorant, just in different subjects.” This was true back then but is more and more true in a world overloaded with information. But…