DANIEL TAMMET
1979. This is the story of a little boy, born autistic, in a working-class suburb of London, whose first language was numbers. How to forge onself when one lives on the outskirts of words, social rules and the expectations of others?
The writer Daniel Tammet recounts his remarkable journey, from the personal battle to liberate himself from the prison of autism, passing by the recitation of 22 514 decimals of Pi to international recognition as a prize-winning writer whose rich body of work has been translated around the world.
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COLLECTIVE INTELLIGENCE
Ants, termites and even some kinds of fungi possess a collective intelligence that is the result of a large number of interactions between different individuals and with their environment. They are systems able to resolve complex problems, such as finding the way out of a maze or establishing the best road network to link different cities on a map.
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IS TRANSPARENT SCIENCE, OPEN TO ALL, POSSIBLE?
There are presently communities of researchers and citizens who create, store, share and deliver their results to society in order to speed up the transition towards a knowledge-based society. Notwithstanding that, for many groups academic knowledge is barely accessible. Is it possible to promote collective intelligence in order to make decisions as a society? How should these actions be implemented? Are we ready and prepared to share knowledge?
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FUTURE FLORA: CELEBRATING FEMALE BIOPHILIA
Two women, a designer and a scientist, will talk about health and women, focusing on the connections between art and design, and innovation, science and technology. They will do so based on the Future Flora project (winner of the European Commission’s STARTS grand prize) which aims to encourage the beneficial presence of microbes and bacteria in the human body with techniques to microencapsulate specific bacteria in certain textile fabrics in order to turn clothing and other accessories into suitable ecosystems for cutaneous flora.
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THE CHALLENGES OF SCIENCE
What were the scientific challenges of the 20th century? What role did women play and what difficulties did they encounter in an area historically reserved for men? What is the current panorama in science? In the age of fake news, is there more or less citizen science culture?
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