Science
Sense and Sensitivity
This quote by the great biologist Theodosius Dobzhansky, even though old, is still actual and applicable to fight fake news, misinformation, pseudosciences and scientific exclusion. The attractiveness of science to…
Networks of trust
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…
Can you see it?
Once I heard on a radio show a journalist saying that If our brains were simple enough for us to understand it, we wouldn’t be capable of understanding it! Unfortunately…
Fix poverty and the environment will fix itself
I first read about Environmental Kuznets Curve (EKC) in Matt Ridley’s book the Rational Optimist. I was impressed. The correlation between per capta income and quality of the environment was a…
My Evolutionary Journey
I was born and raised in Rio de Janeiro and balanced flexibility is my super power I was born and raised in #RioDeJaneiro and that in part defines who I…