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Chinese artist protests by refugees
29
Jan
It is still little known to the general 
public Ai Weiwei, an artist of modern China, but that is also his critic, that its works have been to Brazil, now he protests against the measures on refugees adopted by the Parliament of Denmark, preventing your and “private” civil rights o have assets, phony capitalism.
His protest was about to close his Breaks exhibition at Faurschou Foundation of Copenhagen, as is your Instagram profile, and also in the Aros museum in the west of the small country, where already pulled its shows this institution. Said the artist on Instagram: “as a result of this unfortunate decision, I will have to leave the exhibition to express my protest against the decision of the Danish Government,” whose work on display is a criticism of your country A New Dynasty, Made in China.
The artist said his decision was supported by the director of Faurshou Foudation, Jens Faurschou said on social network media that “regrets the decision of the Danish Parliament to place itself at the forefront of the inhuman policy in the largest humanitarian crisis in Europe and the Middle East “.
The artist currently exhibits in Spain, according to its “Forever” work in the figure, had a recent controversy with the Lego factory that refused to send parts to the artist, and he asked fans to send him legos, the response was overwhelming.
Maybe art does not save the world, but can save the right to life of refugees
Comment Vivre en temps de crise ?
27
Nov
It is not the economic crisis, it is only the most sensitive part of a whole
systemic crisis involving culture, civilization processes, the correct understanding of the use of technology, and above all and mainly that is being who we are.
The book by Edgar Morin and Patrick Viveret, philosopher and former counselor of the government of Auditors Jospin an important mission which was to redefine what are in fact the indicators of wealth.
Viveret authority is it because Réconsidérer wrote it Richesse (Éditions de l’Aube) and Pourquoi ça ne vas pas mal plus? (Fayard), but the partnership with Morin makes this significant fact speech for the moment we live on the planet.
Just when everything seems to apply for disaster, perhaps this is just a superficial view of a changing world with many interesting opportunities.
We must be ready to welcome the unlikely, and this can only happen to those who are attentive to positive use this crisis as a new opportunity for a new relationship with the democratic power, monetary wealth, but rather with what can make sense to all that we are living and witnessing.
A Europe also Arab and black, an America that embraces and change the lives of the poor, without corruption, dictatorships and ideological biases, all this seems unlikely, but …
What Morin and Viveret deny are the conventional models, the already matured polarization and simplistic reasoning … the improbable can happen: a new era.
Nature and a cure for cancer
25
Nov
The brazilian social debate after a court order requiring the USP to provide a
miracle cure for cancer healing, phosphoethanolamine, the USP contested, now comes the prestigious scientific journal Nature, which defends the position of USP.
The last issue of the magazine brings along with an paper, the reconstitution of the way of the substance, from its preparation and an alleged efficacy, yet inconclusive tests until its unofficial distribution and because the Brazilian court decided to intervene to limit their circulation due to clinical tests are required to be distributed.
The compound, phosphoethanolamine f, has been shown to kill tumour cells only in lab dishes and in mice (A. K. Ferreira et al. Anticancer Res. 32, 95–104; 2012). Drugs that seem promising in lab and animal studies have a notoriously high failure rate in human trials.
Despite this, some chemists at the University of São Paulo’s campus in São Carlos have manufactured the compound for years and distributed it to people with cancer. A few of those patients have claimed remarkable recoveries, perpetuating the compound’s reputation as a miracle cure.
Some of these patients have claimed remarkable recoveries, perpetuating the reputation of the compound as a miracle cure, but scientifically
