Um quarto e um café

“The imagination of nature is far, far greater than the imagination of man” Richard Feynman I enjoy creativity and imagination. Thinking about the theories, the art, or our daily lives. Connecting dots trying to make sense of something. Nature has a strong imagination, and according to Feynman, far greater than man. There is no surprise here; that is how evolution works. The organisms will seek for survival through the many ways possible – and unimaginable - together with the

I think I am in the middle of turbulent changing paths. I found appropriate writing about survivorship. To survival is elementary. It is something so deeply integrated to nature (including ourselves) that no one even needs to talk about. Everything happened from survival. I once wrote that nature is driven by survival (not just me) – that’s the motivation for the evolutionary and ecological development of life. I do not have a neat metaphor to describe nature, but it certainl

I am finally reading Gould’s “The structure of evolutionary theory”. It is a huge book (a thousand pages). Some researchers certainly think that it might be a waste of time. I think Gould was a very insightful and influential scientist. But I have been very slow lately. I was reading the chapter on his critique on the modern synthesis - the pillar of the modern evolutionary thought. About a hundred years ago there was a “synthesis” of two great discoveries: Darwinian natural

It has been such a long time since I wrote something just for fun. I hope my non-academic English is not too bad. My academic English usually has very good reviewers. People that I admire and I am thankful for spending time correcting and giving suggestions to my writing. Anyway, it is not the case of my personal blog, in which I just write whatever I want, in any way I want. Posso até escrever em Português uma frase agora. I was reading a nice paper yesterday. It is about th

Today is Sunday. I have never really liked Sundays. Sunday is too slow. The good thing about Sunday is when your soccer team plays and wins. About today, I made chimarrão, I slept, I ate meat jun (It is a Korean plate – really good), I missed the Grêmio game, talked to my family, listened to samba, played guitar, and now, I am writing while listening to Hawaiian music in the reading room. I have never really talked about my work here. My work is not like Sunday. I wrote about