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Nonostante il continuo miglioramento della tecnologia, ci sono ancora ambiti in cui persino il cervello di un bambino risulta più potente dei computer a oggi sul mercato, come per esempio la capacità di apprendimento. "Se si dovesse riassumere con una sola parola il talento unico della nostra specie, sceglierei il verbo imparare" afferma il neuroscienziato Stanislas Dehaene (Imparare. Il talento del cervello, la sfida delle macchine). Professore di Experimental Cognitive Psychology al prestigioso Collège de France e a capo del Consiglio Scientifico per l'Educazione ... continua

Un viaje al interior del cerebro. La historia de las células pensantes: Gianvito Martino.
Los seres humanos tenemos la capacidad de interactuar favorablemente con el medio ambiente que nos rodea, nuestro ecosistema. La evolución de los organismos vivos está orquestada por la estrecha interacción de trillones de células que se comunican unas con otras, formando una estructura “física” microscópica, presionada e impactada, a su vez, por el medioambiente. Sin embargo, es común que inesperados e impredecibles focos de contaminación afecten el medio ambiente ... continua

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Economista indio nacionalizado británico. Miembro de la Academia Americana de las Artes y las Ciencias (1991); la Academia Nacional de Ciencias (2001); la Real Sociedad Económica (presidente, 1998-2001); la Royal Society (2004). El doctor Dasgupta también ha sido galardonado con el Premio Volvo de Medio Ambiente (2002) y Premio Kenneth Boulding de la Asociación de Economía Ecológica (2004). Es autor de obras como The Control of Resources (1982), An Inquiry into Well-Being and Destitution (1993) o Human Well-Being and the Natural Environment (2001), entre otras.

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On Jan. 20, Democracy Now! will live-stream the Belmarsh Tribunal from Washington, D.C. The event will feature expert testimony from journalists, whistleblowers, lawyers, publishers and parliamentarians on assaults to press freedom and the First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution.
Watch here live at 2 p.m. ET on Friday, Jan. 20.
Democracy Now!’s Amy Goodman and Srecko Horvat, the co-founder of DiEM25, will chair the tribunal, which is being organized by Progressive International and the Wau Holland Foundation.
Members of the tribunal include:
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The playhouse is a 1921 silent short film written, directed by, and starring Buster Keaton. The movie runs for 22 minutes, and is most famous for an opening sequence in which Keaton plays every role.

Betty Boop is an animated cartoon character created by Max Fleischer, with help from animators including Grim Natwick. She originally appeared in the Talkartoon and Betty Boop film series, which were produced by Fleischer Studios and released by Paramount Pictures. She has also been featured in comic strips and mass merchandising.
A caricature of a Jazz Age flapper, Betty Boop was described in a 1934 court case as: "combin[ing] in appearance the childish with the sophisticated--a large round baby face with big eyes and a nose like a button, framed in a somewhat ... continua