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A Porpita é um hidrozoário colonial que vive flutuando na superfície do mar. Os pólipos estão arranjados concentricamente na superfície inferior de um disco central quitinoso. Há um pólipo grande central (gastrozoóide) e ao seu redor inúmeros gastro-gonozoóides, que são responsáveis pela ingestão de alimento e produção de medusas. Mais externamente, se distribuem os pólipos responsáveis pela captura de alimento e defesa, os dactilozoóides. - Bruno C. Vellutini

Academics have protested against Elsevier's business practices for years with little effect. - Bruno C. Vellutini

Dois homens denunciaram a quatro órgãos federais e dois estaduais uma milionária operação criminosa que rouba ipê de dentro de áreas de preservação da floresta amazônica, no Pará. Depois da denúncia, um foi assassinado – e o outro foge pelo Brasil com a família, sem nenhuma proteção do governo. A partir do relato desses dois homens, é possível unir a Amazônia dos bárbaros à floresta dos nobres - Bruno C. Vellutini

A series of mixes intended for listening while programming to aid concentration and increase productivity (also compatible with other activities). - Bruno C. Vellutini

How copy protection and app stores could deny future generations their cultural legacy. - Bruno C. Vellutini

Cambridge University Library holds the largest and most important collection of the scientific works of Isaac Newton (1642-1727). We present here an initial selection of Newton's manuscripts, concentrating on his mathematical work in the 1660s. Over the next few months we will be adding further works until the majority of our Newton Papers are available on this site. - Bruno C. Vellutini

While many of us are working to ensure that the Occupy movement will have a lasting impact, it’s worthwhile to consider other countries where masses of people succeeded in nonviolently bringing about a high degree of democracy and economic justice. Sweden and Norway, for example, both experienced a major power shift in the 1930s after prolonged nonviolent struggle. They “fired” the top 1 percent of people who set the direction for society and created the basis for something different. - Bruno C. Vellutini

Speaker Deck is the best way to share presentations online. Simply upload your slides as a PDF, and we’ll turn them into a beautiful online experience. View them on SpeakerDeck.com, or share them on any website with an embed code. - Bruno C. Vellutini

Galaxy is an open, web-based platform for data intensive biomedical research. Whether on this free public server or your own instance, you can perform, reproduce, and share complete analyses. The Galaxy team is a part of BX at Penn State, and the Biology and Mathematics and Computer Science departments at Emory University. The Galaxy Project is supported in part by NSF, NHGRI, The Huck Institutes of the Life Sciences, The Institute for CyberScience at Penn State, and Emory University. - Bruno C. Vellutini

O CNPq realiza um enérgico trabalho na integração de bases de currículos acadêmicos de instituições públicas e privadas em uma única plataforma denominada Lattes. Os chamados ``Currículos Lattes'' são considerados um padrão nacional de avaliação representando um histórico das atividades científicas / acadêmicas / profissionais de pesquisadores cadastrados. Os currículos Lattes foram projetados para mostrar informação pública, embora, individual de cada usuário cadastrado na plataforma. Muitas vezes, realizar uma compilação ou sumarização de produções bibliográficas para um grupo de usuários cadastrados de médio ou grande porte (e.g. grupo de professores, departamento de pós-graduação) realmente requer um grande esforço mecânico que muitas vezes é suscetível a falhas. - Bruno C. Vellutini

How Often Should I Charge My Gadget’s Battery to Prolong Its Lifespan? - Bruno C. Vellutini

Last week, I wrote something about the hypocritical copyright violations on SOPA author Lamar Smith's very own website. You might have seen it when it was featured on the Forbes, Time or Huffington Post websites, or, most likely, when Tyler, the Creator tweeted about it just now. - Bruno C. Vellutini

Os peixes do rio Madeira estão desaparecendo. E as causas desse desaparecimento são sistêmicas, conseqüência de uma grande intervenção humana no ecossistema do rio, que os cientistas haviam previsto que teria impacto dramático sobre a população de peixes do rio. E é isso que está ocorrendo neste momento, como revelou a “Folha de S.Paulo” em sua edição de 8/1: os peixes do rio Madeira já sumiram na região do lago da hidrelétrica de Santo Antônio; outra hidrelétrica está em construção, chamada Jirau, com danos cumulativos previstos há pelo menos seis anos. - Bruno C. Vellutini

Springer is bringing Open Choice, its hybrid open access option, into line with the fully open access journals published by BioMed Central and SpringerOpen. As a result, all open access content at Springer will be published under the Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY) license. - Bruno C. Vellutini

NPG and Digital Science do not support the Research Works Act. - Bruno C. Vellutini

Bitwig Studio is a multi-platform music-creation system for production, performance and DJing, with a focus on flexible editing tools and a super-fast workflow. - Bruno C. Vellutini

History is replete with stories of scientists who hid their ideas from their competition; consider Leonardo da Vinci, whose odd backward writing may have been partly motivated by fear of thieves, or Isaac Newton, who concealed one idea by writing it in the form of an anagram. Science has long been a dog-eat-dog world. - Bruno C. Vellutini

Privacy is necessary for an open society in the electronic age. Privacy is not secrecy. A private matter is something one doesn't want the whole world to know, but a secret matter is something one doesn't want anybody to know. Privacy is the power to selectively reveal oneself to the world. - Bruno C. Vellutini

Na USP, fotografar não se resume a um simples clique. Alguns transformam esse hobby em ferramenta de pesquisa e outros em complemento de seu curso - Bruno C. Vellutini

Scientific literacy is necessary for a functioning society in the modern age. Scientific literacy is not science education. A person educated in science can understand science; a scientifically literate person can *do* science. Scientific literacy empowers everyone who possesses it to be active contributors to their own health care, the quality of their food, water, and air, their very interactions with their own bodies and the complex world around them. - Bruno C. Vellutini

The Embryo Project helps identify and understand the agents of change shaping embryo research and its multiple contexts. We started from the historical recognition that science involves a mix of contingencies influenced by (1) particular actors working in particular places, (2) decisions about what organisms to study, equipment to use, experiments to design, and other technical factors that make possible scientific practices, and (3) the multiple social and cultural contextual factors that shape what is possible in science. - Bruno C. Vellutini

Imagine observing a plant moving its leaves up and down throughout the day. During the night they are in a fully upright position while during the day they move downward, avoiding excessive light. - Bruno C. Vellutini

Search doesn't have to be hard. Haystack lets you write your search code once and choose the search engine you want it to run on. With a familiar API that should make any Djangonaut feel right at home and an architecture that allows you to swap things in and out as you need to, it's how search ought to be. - Bruno C. Vellutini

Una de las habituales críticas a la ciencia es que ésta, salvo en contadas ocasiones, no es accesible al ciudadano de a pie. Los grandes logros y hallazgos científicos suelen permanecer en el anonimato en gran parte por el escaso interés de la propia comunidad científica en divulgar los resultados de sus investigaciones. Por suerte esta tendencia está cambiando gracias, en parte, a científicos que dedican parte de su tiempo (y recursos) en divulgar sus hallazgos. Es el caso reciente de un grupo de investigadores brasileños de la Universidad de Sao Paulo, liderados por Álvaro Esteves Migotto y Bruno Vellutini, quienes están tratando de acercarnos los secretos de la vida marina, iniciativa que han denominado Cifonauta. - Bruno C. Vellutini

Cifonauta is an image database for marine organisms organized by descriptive information such as taxonomic classification, life stage and geolocation (complete list). Images were created during research projects and teaching activities of marine biology by students and faculty. - Bruno C. Vellutini

The Paleobiology Database seeks to provide researchers and the public with information about the entire fossil record. - Bruno C. Vellutini

A Universidade de São Paulo (USP) lançou um banco de dados com mais de 11 mil fotos e 260 vídeos do Centro de Biologia Marinha (Cebimar). O Cifonauta (cifonauta.cebimar.usp.br) é destinado a pesquisadores, estudantes e ao público em geral. - Bruno C. Vellutini

Yes, share-alike does not fit well with cross-media conversions like digital to print, but many books have been printed on the basis of materials from Wikimedia projects, so that seems to be OK. Not sure about the exact legal routes that make this possible. - Daniel Mietchen

Welcome to the Nanopub, a friendly place serving up nanopublications to critique, customize and share. This site was established to host the very first collection of nanopublications. - Bruno C. Vellutini

Se você já sonhou em nadar num mar de biscoitos, saiba que isso é possível! Mas guarde a fome pra depois, porque esta bolacha não é de comer. - Bruno C. Vellutini

Bioconductor provides tools for the analysis and comprehension of high-throughput genomic data. Bioconductor uses the R statistical programming language, and is open source and open development. It has two releases each year, 516 software packages, and an active user community. - Bruno C. Vellutini