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António Damásio para JD
Entrevistas

Antonio Damasio: “The more educated we are, the more we are tolerant to people who are not in our group”

 (Versión en castellano aquí) From young António Damasio (Lisbon, 1944) interested in becoming a filmmaker to today’s neurologist and researcher expert in emotions there’s a smaller gap than what anyone could imagine. This scientist and writer has always been interested in Humanities and the study of feelings. Every single book of […]

Kim Stanley Robinson para JD 2
English, Entrevistas

Kim Stanley Robinson: “Science needs to think of itself more as a humanism and as an utopian politics”

(Versión en español) We meet with Kim Stanley Robinson (Waukegan, 1952) in Barcelona, during the annual literary convention Kosmopolis. Robinson is a respected and popular hard science fiction writer, especially known for his trilogy dealing with martian colonization and terraformation (Red Mars, Green Mars, Blue Mars). After Mars, he imagined […]

Kaspar Korjus para JD
English, Política y Economía

Kaspar Korjus: «Estonia has the most startups per capita and this startup culture has led to fail and fail and try again»

(Versión en castellano aquí) When Kaspar Korjus was born (Tartu,1987), he was assigned the number 38712012796 before he was named, as happens with everyone else in Estonia. It is his digital identification. In this small Baltic country, that number is used for nearly every administrative transaction: medical receipts, taxes, business […]