Uma entrevista com o ministro da Saúde Humberto Costa, explicando como foi a decisão de quebrar a patente internacional de um remédio anti-HIV.

Seen last winter, not far from here... this is homemade, but check out this artist's site.

An article by historian Eric Hobsbawm analyzing the American neo-conservative drive for world supremacy.

On a lighter note: some tips on how to be a good movie villain.

A conversation about Godel and the nature of mathematical truth.

A page with pictures of abandoned buildings in the ex-Soviet Union.

Artists are tax-exempt in Ireland!

Here's a 3 minute video of the Solvay conference in 1927. This is the meeting where some of the most important features of quantum mechanics were first discussed, barely 5 years after its invention. There were 29 participants, 17 of which had got or were to get Nobel prizes. I'd have loved to eavesdrop on this...

Um artigo no The Guardian sobre a transposição das águas do rio São Francisco.

On retreats and the different things they may mean to different people.

An article about the roots of the revolt in Bolivia.

An article on online independent media hubs.

On a project aiming at creating a self-replicating rapid prototyper.

Extinct cave bear DNA sequenced. The researchers responsible for that are now talking about doing it to Neanderthals.

Computers can now be used to grade university essays.

I've been away for a while, in Vienna, Cambridge and Oxford. Here's an article about a painting of Klimt's that decorates the hall in Vienna University where I spent most of last week.