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Public policies
Have you ever stopped to think that your daily life is shaped, all the time, by decisions you did not make? The bus that arrives on time, the vaccine that reaches the health center, the school that opens its doors, the storm alert that arrives on your phone. None of this happens by chance. All…
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An embroidered system
Let’s do a small exercise. Imagine cross-stitch as an analog computational system, not because embroidery is literally a computer, but because some of its characteristics allow us to build a curiously precise analogy between a manual practice and certain principles that we now associate with computing. Let’s begin with the simplest structure. The fabric works…
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While the journal reviews, the world changes
There is a curious feeling that accompanies those who do research in areas linked to technology. You write about the present knowing that, when the text is finally published, part of it will already belong to the past. Scientific production has always needed time. Peer review, corrections, new readings, opinions. This care is one of…
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July 8: Researcher and Science Day in Brazil
July 8 brings together two important celebrations: National Science Day and National Scientific Researcher Day. The date honors the founding of the Brazilian Society for the Progress of Science (SBPC), created on July 8, 1948, and considered one of the milestones in the organization of scientific research in Brazil. The commemorations were officialized by two…