Adapting to climate change
Traditional crop varieties of indigenous people could prove even more important than modern agriculture in adapting agriculture to climate changes. Published in Youris
“I want to stay as close as possible to nature looking at the lives of cells in very different environments”
Lynn Margulis is Distinguished University Professor in the Department of Geosciences at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. She co-developed the Gaia theory, the view that Earths’ biosphere is a living superorganism capable of… Continue reading
Ser macho mata
El sociólogo tarragonés especializado en sexualidad e identidades masculinas habla, entre otras cosas, sobre el miedo de muchos hombres a ser tratados como mujeres, un tipo de homofobia que afecta también a los… Continue reading
“Now that there’s a good number of women running research labs, I hope that this is going to be a trend in future and that more will be winning prizes as well”
Before Carol Greider and Elizabeth Blackburn, only 8 women had won the Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine, and for the first time two women won it at the same time Interview published… Continue reading
New Orleans cinque anni dopo il Katrina
Cinque anni fa l’uragano Katrina distrusse l’ottanta per cento delle case. Oggi la città della Louisiana è un laboratorio di progetti urbanistici e sociali anche se 125 mila persone, un quinto degli… Continue reading
Esploratori di luoghi che non esistono
Per nove mesi Isaki Lacuesta e Isa Campo hanno girato il mondo alla ricerca dei posti «occultati» da Google Earth. Ne è nato un video Pubblicato nel quotidiano L’Unità
Solo para mujeres
Tejedoras analfabetas del Sur de China se inventaron hace siglos la lengua nushu, que solo usaban ellas. La revolución cultural la vetó y ahora apenas sobrevive Publicado en El cuaderno del Domingo de… Continue reading
El tacón envenenado de Europa
La fábrica de Ilva (Taranto, Italia) es la mayor siderúrgica de Europa y una de las más contaminantes Reportaje publicado en el diario Público
La parola zingaro
In Spagna vivono 800 mila Rom. Storie di vita a Barcellona, a cavallo tra ordinario razzismo e normale vita quotidiana. Report pubblicato nella rivista Carta, La parola zingaro