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VOCATION
PEOPLE
Los acordes de la relatividad
¿Quién fue el autor de E=mc2?
Encuentros de un viaje subterráneo
Cortázar desde las aulas
Cortázar en la cultura chivilcoyana
La bella y el Bestiario
¿La casa tomada en Chivilcoy?
Julio, Rosa y la pensión
¿Quién fue Julio Cortázar?
¡Todas estábamos enamoradas de Cortázar!
Un cronopio en Chivilcoy
Del almacén a la poesía
Viaje de un ingeniero que hoy traduce al Dalai Lama
Un espiritual intensamente pragmático
The other instruments
Two hands and a piece of wood
The other Mozart
Mozart's hidden voice
Mozart a la carte
In the footsteps of Mozart
Borges in the flesh
Uncle Georgie
Librarian´s soul
Professor Jorge Luis
Borges in his paradise
One hundred years of Beckett
Beckett chronology
All That Fall, an Argentine version
Beckett and the Argentines
Beckett and Joyce: Dubliners in Paris
Beckett: the other, the same
Saved by a dream
Theatre as a lifestyle
Ricardo Arauz: story of a passionate man
Farewell to Master Kapuscinski
Baudrillard: the hyperreality man
Jean Baudrillard, author of, among other works, The transparency of evil and The Gulf War did not happen, has died at the age of 77. He devised the concept of hyperreality to analyze the interaction between the real, the social and the symbolic in the field of consciousness.
The alchemy which takes waste and makes it into art
“Everything that is discarded can have another life and be something that helps you to grow.”
Art in the factories
In the heart of Tigre
The art alchemist
Alejandro Marmo is a young, working class artist who learned to “turn waste into art“. He creates sculptures from the waste materials of factories and rubbish tips. He seeks to project into them phobias, fears and anger in a symbolic act that obtains an alchemy both physical and spiritual. Some years ago, he undertook an artistic trek that linked together several provinces in order to “transform the Argentinian crisis of 2001 into poetry“. From that moment on he started to involve groups of people in this artistic process, especially those excluded from the social mainstream. During a series of interviews with MYRIADES 1, he narrates a life and work marked by intense contradictions, sadness and encounters.
Julio Bocca: between heaven and earth
He is Argentina’s most famous dancer of recent times. But Bocca is also a working man who has always fought to make dance an art for all. In his final year on the boards, he spoke to MYRIADES 1 about his artistic and social vocation.
'The choral experience is always fascinating'
Carlos López Puccio – Pucho to his friends – has been a member of the popular Argentinian comedy-musical group Les Luthiers for 40 years and is the director of the Estudio Coral de Buenos Aires ensemble. He reflects on the complex interaction that exists between the members of musical groups.
A Rehearsal of Estudio Coral
Los que ven lo invisible
Música para oídos sordos
Today women
Patricia Pérez
Lydia Cacho Ribeiro
Wangari Maathai
Inés Weinberg
Doris Lessing
COMMUNICATION
Después de un pantallazo escalofriante
You have a new message – or is it a new language?
Hi, r u ok 4 2morrow?
shiiit, I 4got!!! do u no how 2 get there?
eejit & yes no prob
brill, wot time meet?
mine @ 10 ok?
ok c u then
The life of the language and its words
The transformation of the words
Boiling languages
Towards a connected school
New versions galore, new models, and new applications by the minute. Children turn out to be the most permeable individuals, sponges that absorb and assimilate innovation in no time. Is school, kids second home, supporting them? Specialists in education and new technologies, and teachers who share their afternoons with children describe what actually happens and what they suggest should happen between the new pedagogic demands and their erratic application.
The Information Gap
Alternative circuits
Research on international news
MacBride Report
Chronicle of a Failure Foretold
The Information Gap
"International press is being manipulated (...) The problem with TV and mass media, as a whole, is that they are so dominant and influential that they have begun to assemble a world of their own. Their world has nothing to do with the real world whatsoever."Ryszard Kapuscinski , Il cinico non è adatto a questo mestiere. Conversazioni sul buon giornalismo.
Internet: a choice against censure
Sudan: A World Crisis
Land of the blacks, arabs and...570 ethnic groups
Sudan's numbers
Have children stopped reading?
Internet cafés busy with teenagers playing games or chatting, checking out dvds, interactive cd-roms, movies and TV... Are books, rigid and read-only, drowning in the new generation's visual maelstrom? Are the new technologies suggesting to us a new way of reading? Writers, publishers and researchers give their views.
Somalia: teared apart by nature and humans
Somalia in numbers
A terribly current preislamic practice
¿Another "war against terrorism"? ¿Another "jihad against crusaders"?
Somalia bleeds
Latest news: Violence increase in Somalia
Around the world in 260 articles
Two South American secrets
Fragmentation, poverty, territorial disputes: MYRIADES 1 looks at Suriname and Guyana
Guyana in figures
Suriname in figures
Guyana: coexistence, prejudice and poverty
Suriname: diversity in conflict
Big Brother: the everyday sensation
From George Orwell to The Truman Show
The narcotizing effect of the banal
Reality made for TV
Televised Darwinism
Voyeurism, exhibitionism and observation as control
Blogs and Literature
I'm telling you
Spontaneous, collective music
Spontaneous music and dance invite us to enter into an ancestral experiential language where art is transformed into a means of encounter for the now.
Shared worlds
The Salzburg Academy Program on Media and Global Change is an study opportunity for university students from various countries to exchange experiences, with the common aim of understanding and improving the construction of the global reality as projected by the new media. Stereotypes give rise to conflict and interaction. Rationale and academic reasoning alternate with passion in a heterogeneous human group.
An end, so that a beginning may come
The rewards of perseverance
“Global” hazards, “global” pitfalls
Internet: virtual democracy?
The potential is there
The paradox: more control, more freedom
The invisible network
Internet extends everywhere, but the USA holds the strings
Digital gaps
Virtual democracy?
Globalized world
The financial sector, energy, health and terrorism are not national issues any longer: they are global. They operate in networks that interconnect individuals, states, and cultures, reflecting the power of globalization, with Internet as the symbol par excellence.
Interplanetary connections: how men and women communicate
Sexism in language
Female language at work
The origin of differences
"He doesn't listen to me"
She talks, he goes into his cave
Gender differences: a matter of style
CULTURE
La música: arma de construcción masiva
El polémico Barenboim
El último concierto en Buenos Aires
Una ciudad que no olvide a sus hijos
La orquesta imposible es posible
Superhéroes: ayer y hoy
He-Man
La Mujer Maravilla
Batman
Superman
Tarzán
Sobre el héroe y sus máscaras
La escuela de los niños
To live in a world without "one" truth only
¿Cuál es el secreto del éxito de Harry Potter?
Potteradictos
¿Un triunfo del marketing?
¿Qué tiene la saga en sí misma?
Nostalgias en un mundo globalizado
Llamado a la compasión del Dalai Lama
Footballitis
The beauty of Rubbish
Urban prophets
Art on the net
Escombros at Arte BA 2006
From the streets to Arte BA
Against the violence and for solidarity
Art, politics, ecology
The beauty of Rubbish
Una economía espiritual
Education in an interconnected world
The educative debt of the media
For an authentic interculturality
Brief history of football
An unwanted player: violence
The other face: joy, values and poetic in football
TV set, instead of a blackboard
The deep shout of the fan
On your marks... Football... Go!
World footballitis
The Escombros' Tribute to Borges
Bolivia in turmoil
Economy: between the communitarian and the competitiveness
Bilingual and intercultural education in Bolivia: necessity and complexity
Andean prophecy
Controversies: land and gas
Bolivia in turmoil
A succesful political reform
A succesful political reform
The Pachamama in Mataderos
An alternative to traditional financing
World Cultural Heritage in the 21st Century
Borges on my mind
Why bother with Borges?
A complete guide to Borges' works
What's up, doc?
Encounters and mis-encounters in a multicultural land
Intercultural and Bilingual Education in Bolivia: brief evaluation and challenges
The Intercultural and Bilingual Education experience in Bolivia: brief evaluation and challenges
Fundamentalism fears religious experience
Interreligious ethical statement
"Writing makes me happy"
Creating and believing
A fashion for suffering
What price does the female in our society pay to be perceived as beautiful? Bulimia and anorexia are conspicuous proof of the brutality implicit in the demands made by social values. Yet there are other agonies, more subtle, more widespread, that show how intimately associated feminine aesthetics is with suffering. According to a study published in the Italian magazine, Salute Naturale (Natural Health), as many as 80% of Italian women go through pain and illness in the name of fashion. High heels, tight clothing and winter dresses that ignore the cold, are a sure-fire recipe for sickness and injury. MYRIADES 1 investigates the cultural assumptions underlying the violence of aesthetics: when it means that women have to suffer to achieve "beauty".
A history story
The Japanese controversy
Post-war differences: Germany and Japan
“Textbooks should reflect the multiplicity of perspectives”
“The only effective way to study history is to do so comparatively”
The Book War
Making history
Every society interprets and passes on its history to new generations in a variety of narratives. So what happens when these interpretations vary to the point of contradicting each other, when they offer alternatives or are simply irreconcilable? Is it ideological bias, or legitimate vision? Collective consensus or individual perspective? How do different societies tell young people about the past? Toda, more than 60 years after the Second World War, the truth about what happened can depend on which writer - and which nation - is telling the story.
Democratic values. Real or imitation?
Everyday ethics
Feminism makes a stand
Difference, inequality and equality
Dignity reclaimed
A current tendency to reassert the value of origins is symbolized by what is happening among the Mapuche community of Bahía Blanca in the province of Buenos Aires. After of decades of social disintegration, young people and adults, old people and children, are bringing the tools of the modern world to bear on an ancestral legacy. In the meantime, society has changed, too, giving rise to cross-cultural experiences.
Infinitely individual
Art x New technologies: multiplying dimensions
The view from the inside: happenings and living sculptures
Realer than real
Being art: from Africa to body art
“The world as a sensitive body”
In an extensive exchange via e-mail, Roberto Esposito analyzes the relationship, between societies, groups and individuals, and the search for "a politics of life."
The body as microcosm
Beyond the prevailing utlitarian paradigm that isolates the physical from the spirit and mind, the challenge is to achieve a complete knowledge of one’s corporeal universe, in order to be that All which we currently reduce to terms of our environment.
Beyond aesthetics
Why now?
The person on the other side of the mirror
It is believed that they have always been around, that there were cases of bulimia, anorexia and other eating disorders in the 16th Century. But today it seems that we are experiencing an epidemic of these syndromes. What social dysfunctions do these unhealthy compulsions reflect? What lies behind the deceptive search for beauty? MYRIADES 1 went to the experts to find out.
Multilingual America
The Encyclopedia of Babel
Wikipedia and the hacker ethics
A community project for the 2.0 era
Ganging up on Wikipedia
What Wikipedia is and how it works
Doctors who go beyond
Medecins Sans Frontières is one of the humanitarian NGOs that goes further than most. It treats people in need of medical attention in no less than 75 distressed countries. Its untiring work over more than three decades exemplifies human networking in a mission to: “Help people in places nobody can or wants to go to.”
From mail-art to e-mail-art: Internet and the collective art movement
The s-mail of the sixties was transformed into e-mail years ago, but the concept is the same: to embrace the world in a network of collective art.
NGO 2.0: the next generation in civil society
In recent years, Non-Governmental Organizations have multiplied and spread all over the globe. If many are praised as humanitarian saviours, severe criticism of others has been leading to a major self-reassessment. MYRIADES 1 takes a structural look at the changing world of NGOs and discovers a new model of NGO in the making: the network.
Meaningful networks
What makes for a good operational NGO?
Learning from experience
A cautionary tale
Where are NGOs going wrong?
Revolutionizing thought?
Internet as the technological expression of unprecedented transformations of man and society. How interaction between individuals relaxes the rigidity of socio-cultural hierarchies, such as theories, morality, institutions, in a move towards a dynamic and collective existence.
The problem with isms: Environmental, Feminine and Marx
Dynamic relationships and identities
Universal ethics and human rights
Decentralized power and outmoded institutions
Thinking in networks and thinking the Web
Copyright in the Internet Age
The new technologies that emerged at the end of the last century had an immediate and dramatic impact on the laws concerning authors' rights. They made it possible to share knowledge free of charge, but also ushered in a pirate market which profits by using other people's material. Amidst a tension between authors and consumers, the industry of culture and cultural events themselves, the debate about intellectual property in the 21st Century is now on.
A brief history of intellectual property
Although every nation has its own laws on authors' rights, they have always been subject to the modifying influence of legislation in other countries. Ever since the 16th Century, the rules concerning this tendency have changed, evolved and merged in cross-border agreements which regulate the usage of intellectual material with increasing restrictiveness.
When NGOs represent the conscience of humanity
The networks of conciousness
Different viewpoints on the phenomenon of consciousness: a neurological network and a cultural network; the organism, the systems and the permeable borders operating between the individual and the collective.
The work of others
If piracy means using the creative property of others without their permission, then the history of the content industry is a history of piracy.
Lawrence Lessig
The code-breakers
In 2006, a hacker discovered the code for breaching the security system for High Definition DVDs. And this was not an isolated case. If users can rebel against digital protection systems and get the better of them, then how effective are they?
Anti-copy systems: blessing or curse?
The contents industry has devised protective systems that prevent files from being copied and even restrict their reproduction in media unauthorized by their developers. This technology, known as Digital Rights Management, is affecting many legal applications which consumers are entitled to.
Deep Surface
I prejudge, therefore I am
Defence of prejudice
Discrimination in Argentina
An anatomy of prejudice
A review of sociological and psychological thinking on prejudice and social interaction.
The other as a caricature
The make-up on equality
Integral philosophy
The US philosopher, whose work has now been translated into more than thirty languages, talks to MYRIADES 1 by telephone about his student days and first readings in Eastern philosophy, which led him to link science with spirituality; about the roots of the evolution of society and the individual and also the complex relationship between violence and development. He explains the imbalance between masculinity and femininity; the failed attempt of communism to defeat individualism; and the hidden similarities of terrorism and counter-terrorism. He mentions the achievements of postmodernism, but also the necessity of rising above it with the integral revolution. He finds angels and demons lurking behind the Internet boom. All this from his complex “integral approach”.
Development of society and individual
The beginnings of Wilber’s thought
Internet: a global brain, and potential global mind
The need to be polyglot
The limits of postmodernism and the leap to integral thought
Does techno-economic development bring more violence?
masculine-feminine, individual-community
SCIENCE & TECH
Los monstruos matemáticos
El Universo en un átomo
Críticas y recaudos desde adentro
¿Qué es un holograma?
Energía en el siglo XXI
Tipos de energía y sus características
Un microclima renovable en la Patagonia
Biodiesel: aceites vegetales al motor
Fusión nuclear: bajar el Sol a la Tierra
Buenos Aires 2055, Apocalipsis 2055*
Energía en el siglo XXI
Antropología y gestión holística: cuando la pintura rupestre afecta al empleado de empresa
La sociedad con forma de holograma
Una medicina como un árbol
Otro modo de ver la realidad
Mother cells: controversy and possibilities
The ethical debate
How a cord blood bank works
To regenerate life
El planeta del agua, sin agua
El fenómeno de la ósmosis inversa
El caso del Acuífero Guaraní
El agua como un commodity
Cuánto tenemos, cuánto consumimos
Más calor, menos agua
La fiebre del oro azul
La disciplina de las plantas y los hombres
Knowledge: when evidence ceases to be
Knowledge: when evidence ceases to be
What's the nuclear fission
Other uses for atomic energy
Atomic history
The disastrous experiment
Nuclear energy in Argentina
Inventor by trade
From the idea to the company
Small inventors
An also feminine space
Inventor by trade
(Video) gaming with fire?
Virtual blood
The XXI Century game
The new addiction?
Death gets further away
Mirror Neurons
An empathic brain?
Maths and architecture in Borges
Imaginary, mithyc and urban spaces
Among numbers and letters: infinite abyss
Might Borges, even in fiction, have seen the Aleph?
Veggie fuel: opportunity or threat?
Climate change, once dismissed as a hippy fantasy, is now a major concern on the international political stage and the worldwide energy crisis worsens as the reserves of traditional fuels begin to be used up. Meanwhile, alternative energy sources are being developed that is kinder to the eco-system.
MYRIADES 1 offers two very different views on biofuels.
This first article looks at one of the major biofuels – biodiesel – and invites the producers to explain their viewpoints. The second article, Biofuels: a threat in camouflage green? is the World Rainforest Movement’s stance. It challenges strongly many of the conceptions on which the producers base their arguments.
Twenty years since Chernobyl
The Chernobyl disaster
Second Life: virtual reality on the Internet
Chronicle of a walk through Second Life
The classroom in the computer
A virtual economy
Virtual identities and relationships
A parallel (and digital) universe
Dealing with migraine
Researchers at Cordoba National University (Argentina) conducted a survey of students. The results showed that one in five students suffers migraines and regular headaches affect 50%. MYRIADES 1 talked to a GP and a neurologist about the causes, symptoms and treatment of the pain.
Taking back the trash
What happens to the stuff we have no use for any more, which we discard? Does what I throw away harm anyone? Does it harm me? Does anybody care? How do we start to change our increasingly dirty reality? What kind of attitude should we be taking towards waste? MYRIADES 1 speaks to specialists on waste and contamination, to an environmental anthropologist and a social psychologist, in search of an answer to these questions.
A hungry future?
At the last count, in 2002, the UN estimated that there were more than 850,000,000 malnourished people in the world. Every day, 25,000 people, most of them children, die die from hunger-related causes. Does malnutrition have long-term effects on children who survive? What kind of future awaits a country in which the new generation goes hungry?
Broadening the mind, broadening the treatment
The idea that different societies and ages have of the body has a direct effect on medical practice. The western body / mind separation has led to a fragmentary medicine that ignores fundamental human dimensions. By questioning this structure and exploring others, we may expand and enhance its field of action.
We don´t need no education
When virtual means real
The beach of reality
Art as a zone of virtuality
ECOnomy
Beyond the obvious environmental crisis, a paradox is evident in the socioeconomic system. If businesses were considered in context with their physical and social setting, instead of separately and in isolation, many of their failings would become apparent: environmental costs that outweigh the benefits, wasted production and short-term growth targets. This situation calls for a major cultural transformation. What if economy drew nearer to its original definition and became more sustainable?
The market for waste: some success stories
Putting humanity at the heart of economic development
The need for a collective commitment
Rethinking manufacture
Complex connections
Social life
What are the organizing principles of complex systems? What can insect colonies teach us about the human mind? Can the vast and complex be explained from the bottom up by the very small and very simple? When neuroscience and philosophy join with modern physics to ask the questions, unexpected answers are thrown up, pointing towards new models of perception and identity.
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“Some people take pictures, I find them”
Monasteries on the Web
I am creating artificial life, declares US gene pioneer
Gore shares peace prize for climate change work
Japanese use urban camouflage to avoid crime
Rethinking the Kyoto treaty
The Golden Shield
Frozen vault saves crops for mankind
My genome, myself: seeking clues in DNA
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Hi-tech childhood
Electricity revives Bali coral reefs
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