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and your eyes steal my light so you can shine in mine

Published March 20, 2011

You steal my time You steal my energies You don’t listen to the lament You don’t listen to the call You crack my boldness You…

Published March 6, 2011

A few months ago I was asking myself: why, among all terrestrial Arthropoda, insects came out as the obvious exceptional winners? That is, why did…

Published February 22, 2011

Given the overwhelming response to my previous post (thanks redditors!) I think I owe people a follow-up. I pinned my blog post on reddit just…

Published February 18, 2011

One of my first memories is myself, 5 years old, going to my mother and declare to her, as serious as only children can be:…

Published February 5, 2011

This period sucks, I’m badly overstressed and my career is at a turning point which I still don’t know how it will turn -all indications…

Published December 10, 2010

It had to happen, and, if anything, what is surprising is that it took so much time. The whole point of the cables Wikileaks affair…

Published December 1, 2010

I have been pointed today by my friend and brilliant scientist Giorgio Gilestro to an interesting blog post of his on how science should change.…

Published October 11, 2010

I’ve been away in Lausanne, Switzerland, to follow a course on metadynamics. Metadynamics is a so called free energy method: it is an algorithm to…

Published September 15, 2010

After more than a week alone at home, with incipient bronchitis, and thriving on dubious pseudofood, I am back in my office. Somehow, I am…