Category Archives: Scienza

Water Fuel Car Scam –again?!

Posted on 22 August 2008 by Mario Alemi

If you (as I did) thought that only Fox news reached the lowest level of journalism in claiming that a car can use “just” water as a fuel…. well, you (we) were wrong. Even REUTERS has decided to spread the … Continue reading →

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Fox News and Water Fuel Cars

Posted on 12 August 2008 by Mario Alemi

And someone says Physics is not important. And someone thinks journalists should be competent. Please note, the video below is something like a scam. [kml_flashembed movie="http://www.youtube.com/v/6Rb_rDkwGnU" width="425" height="344"/] Nowadays, there is a silly competition in offering green solutions. General Motors, … Continue reading →

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Mirror Neurons

Posted on 8 May 2008 by Mario Alemi

In 1992, three Italian researchers from Parma, Italy, were studying the motor cortex of monkeys’ brains – a region that until then was supposed to deal exclusively with movement. Through electrodes implanted in the brain, they could “see” neurons firing … Continue reading →

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CERN, moltiplicatore di tecnologia

Posted on 27 November 2007 by Mario Alemi

[Pubblicato su Monthly/Finanza e Mercati di settembre]   Q. LHC, il nuovo acceleratore di particelle del CERN, il laboratorio europeo per la fisica nucleare, produrrà quasi 500 miliardi di minuscole esplosioni nucleari al secondo. I protoni (i costituenti del nucleo … Continue reading →

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Introduzione alla matematica

Posted on 7 September 2006 by Mario Alemi

Questa introduzione alla matematica e` stata scritta per le prime lezioni del corso di matematica tenuto alla scuola Florestan Fernandes (vicino San Paolo, Brasile) del Movimento dei Lavoratori Senza Terra. Era indubbiamente troppo avanzata: dei 65 studenti che avevo solo … Continue reading →

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