Category: Science for Lay People

27/08/2016 casa do saber | education | experience | illusion | knowledge | neuroscience | perception reality | Visão Feitosa-Santana

The world is an illusion and reality is a point of view!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wVqkfglImcU

07/05/2016 Dangers of the Diet | eBody Project | Obesity Diet | obesity evolution | obesity neuroscience | Tri Delta Fat Talk Free Feitosa-Santana

Dieting is Dangerous: What Neuroscience and Evolution Teach!

Only 1% of dieters will maintain the new weight without regaining what they lost by losing weight. This means that only 1 in 100 people who diet will have long-term success. These numbers get even more frightening when it comes to morbid obesity: only 1 in 1290 extremely obese men will maintain weight loss and […]

06/05/2016 Aging Monet | Monet cataract | Monet surgery | Monet vision Feitosa-Santana

Monet’s Falls

Monet was long-lived. He was born in 1840 and died in 1926, aged 86 years. In 1908, at the age of 68 and already a renowned painter, articles from the time documented the extreme dissatisfaction with his deteriorating vision, as well as the eruptions of anguish that led him to destroy his canvases. The reason: […]

25/03/2016 blind deaf | blindness deafness | language of the heart Feitosa-Santana

Marie Heurtin

Marie Heurtin was born blind and deaf. His world, absolute darkness and silence. Its only form of communication, touch. The film Marie Heurtin, directed by Jean-Pierre Améris, receives the name of Language of the Heart in Portuguese and has the participation of Isabelle Carré, Ariana Rivoire, Brigitte Catillon, Laure Duthilleu, among others. Trailer aqui. Marie Heurtin she […]