"Human knowledge, ingenuity, technology and cooperation can transform societies and economies and secure a sustainable future. (...) ...

  "Our current data economy is based on collecting as much personal data as possible, storing it indefinitely, and selling it to the hi...

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"A certain conception of «nature» has allowed the Moderns to occupy the Earth in such a way that it forbids others to occupy their own...

“An organism tends to act upon the world in a mediated way. It actively converts (sensory) data into information and then constructively...

This plant (agapanthus) is producing flowers with more than the habitual 6 petals. In the photo you can see a flower with 10 petals. Othe...

“The free-radical theory of ageing is one of those beautiful ideas killed by ugly facts. (…) Not one tenet of the theory, as it was origin...

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"(...) the power for growth comes from the reactivity of the environment,  wich fluxes continuously through living cells  (in the f...

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"The fact that something so fragile, so unbearably tender had survived, had been allowed to exist, was a miracle." Arundhati ...

"After all, what can we ever gain in forever looking back and blaming ourselves if our lives have not turned out quite as we might ...

"Over time he had acquired the ability to blend into the background (...) It usually took strangers a while to notice him even when t...

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Monica Pinheiro, license CC BY-NC-SA (CC)