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Fungi & Medicine

Antibiotics,
Mycoses,
Infections,
Vaccines, Drugs.
A complete page on Fungi as organisms that harm and cure.

Includes topics such as Morphology and Taxonomy and Ecological and Economic Importance.

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First they ignore you, then they
laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.

No culture can survive if it attempts to be exclusive.

An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind.
                            - Mahatma Gandhi

God is a comedian, playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.

If there were no God, it would be necessary to invent him.
                                               - Voltaire

If you judge people, you have no time to love them.
                                 - Mother Theresa

I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use.
                                      -Galileo Galilei

What is a rebel? A man who says no.

Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow; don't walk behind me, I may not lead; walk beside me, and just be my friend.
                                  - Albert Camus

Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not; a sense of humor to console him for what he is.
                                    - Francis Bacon

Solitude is fine, but you need someone to tell you that solitude is fine.
                               - Honor� de Balzac

Some people
are pragmatists,
taking things as
they come and
making the best
of the choices
available. Some
people are idealists, standing for principle and refusing to compromise. And some people just act on any whim that enters their heads. I pragmatically turn my whims into principles!
                  - Calvin (by Bill Waterson)

Solvere Telluris Disciplina - Cosmos and Myths

Greek sun-god Apollo

Humanities & Earth Science
Special report on the similarities between mythology and geology, criationism, religion and culture.

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Biological Sciences
Human Cloning: reality or fiction ? You will be surprised to learn that it is more of a reality than you think.

Medical Sciences
Epidemiology and Public Health:
Vaccines, good or evil ? Find out by reading this impressive text on our Medical Sciences page.

History
Love. As complex as the feeling is the history of this word, that changed it's meaning throughout the last milleniums.

Astronomy & Planetary Sciences
X-Ray of the Cosmos: discoveries indicate that our universe is not unique and is heading for extinction.

Music & Behaviour
Does music have more to do with biology than culture ? Humans and other animais are born programmed to appreciate melody and harmony.

Medical Sciences & Behaviour
The essence of masculinity. How testosterone affects several aspects of personality and can be the main factor of differenciation between genders.

World Culture & Tradition
In small European villages, biscuit recipes are used in religious rituals and bless weddings, births and deaths, keeping their tradition alive.

Humanities & Religion
What is the origin of the word "catholicism" ? Learn more about the history of the Catholic Church and their doctrine.

Humanities & Philosophy
Who was Platon ? This incredible philosopher is responsible for the expression "platonic love". Read more about him and his thoughts.

Special report
on Cellular
Comunication.
Fundamentals of
hormone action, neurotransmiters and enzymes. Learn how cells comunicate in order to produce a biological response to major stimuli. A very comprehensive article with diagrams, charts, full texts and a quiz reviewing the main topics.

IN PORTUGUESE

Principles of Cellular Signaling

Philosophy & Bioethics

Review on Henri Atlan's lecture on new paradigms in biology.
Henri Atlan is a renown physician and philosopher and defensor of epigenesis. He is widely interested in bioethics and the limits of science.

This text
summurizes
some of his
main ideas.

IN FRENCH

Humanities and Religion

Koran analysis regarding terrorism and war.
This text
shows us the
extreme
complexity of
the holy writing
when it comes
to war, violence, territory and defense of Islam. Read about the eternal paradox of muslim beliefs.

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HUMANITIES &
SOCIAL SCIENCES

This page is frequently updated and thus constantly growing and improving.

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Humanities: Religion & Literature

Nobel Laureate V.S. Naipaul's lecture to the New York Institute in 1990 regarding his views on Islamic colonization amongst the non-arabs. Read and find out how Naipaul understands violence, faith, freedom, identity, in order to better cope with diverse cultures.

Biological Sciences

The complex brain-mind: an analytical approach. Physician Wilson Luiz Sanvito discusses function, perspectives and the evolution of the models created
to understand the brain and the mind. Also points out topics such as cognition and memory.

Medical Sciences
Euthanasia: Do people have the right to put an end to their lives, legaly ? Up to what point can we measure suffering ?