Being involved in a project with the collaboration of researchers in the field of psychology is certainly changing my view of the world.
I spent a memorable week-end in Barcelona to celebrate the birthday of a friend with a group of guests that he invited. The success of the event was obviously due to his genial […]

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As a child, completing the 4th grade, seemed to mean that we had reached sufficient maturity to use a watch. My case was not an exception and I was offered my first watch after being approved in the written and oral examination to get my clearance, which required a visit to a public school. My […]

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Who has not fallen asleep while listening to a speaker showing the n-th slide filled with bullet points?
Being a GTD evangelist for over four years, I had to see the video of the talk that Merlin Mann gave at Google some time ago, name “Inbox Zero”. Since my initiation in the GTD framework […]

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In our research group there is an old tradition that travellers must bring chocolates for the other members of the team who remained in Portugal. The tradition is such that the Astrid Hagen, a German post-doc girl who worked with us for some years, baptised our meeting room as the chocolate room. It seems that, […]

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Something that I forgot to bring to Florence were my gloves (bought in Monsaraz for more than 20 years ago…). Knowing the local tradition of the leather industry, I asked the Italian colleages for suggestions on where to buy gloves in Florence but they told me that now everything was done in China. In disbelieve […]

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Despite the limited time for sightseeing, the social programme of the Maveba conference was excellent (Grazie Claudia). On December 13 we were offered a selection of pieces from the “The Coronation of Poppaea” by Claudio Monteverdi played and sung in the staircase of the Hospital of San Giovanni di Dio (Borgo Ognissanti 20). The recital […]

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Last month I was in Florence for the Maveba conference, organised by Claudia Manfredi, my colleague in the action COST 2103. The conference took me most of the days but I still managed to make some short trips around the city in the early morning (before 9am) and between the last session and […]

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