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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…

When prejudice is worse than bad

Everyone has prejudice. And… we like them. The reason, I believe, is simple: prejudice is convenient. Daniel Willingham has shown in his book ‘Why students don’t like school’ how thinking is…

Trust: the single most challenging problem in science and entrepreneurship

When I was a kid, there was this advertisement on TV: Gerson de Oliveira, the outstanding soccer player from the Brazilian national team that won the ’70 world cup, asked the…

Call for a Desinstitutionalized and Distributed Science

Last time I participate in a PhD selection process, I asked 10 students where did they see themselves in 10 years. The answer was unanimous: “doing research at the university”.…