This report focuses on the 2005 Annual meeting held in Caxambu, Minas Gerais, Brazil that was convened and organized by the Brazilian Society of Protozoology http://www.sbpz.org.br/. This is an annual event and details of these meetings can be found on the Society's website. Within the space available it has been impossible to cover all the important and fascinating contributions and what is pr...

It has been argued that human evolution has stopped because humans now adapt to their environment via cultural evolution and not biological evolution. However, all organisms adapt to their environment, and humans are no exception. Culture defines much of the human environment, so cultural evolution has actually led to adaptive evolution in humans. Examples are given to illustrate the rapid pace...

The effects of fouling have only recently been subject to systematic scientific inquiry. Its seriousness, however, has been recognized from very ancient times. Although written records of the treatment of ship bottoms as early as the 5th century B. C.have been found, the search for an antifouling surfacè undoubtedly began with even earlier ships about which we have little information. Historica...

Neste artigo, exploramos o diálogo entre dramaturgo Bertolt Brecht e cineasta Pier Paolo Pasolini a partir da interpretação do filósofo historiador arte Georges Didi-Huberman. Nossa análise se inspira em diferentes estudos de Didi-Huberman sobre cada um desses dois artistas: no caso Brecht, longo ensaio Quando as imagens tomam posição analisa obras brechtianas que misturam texto fotografia. Pro...