Dépassée, la nation ?

[Biblioteca Fundamentos de la Construcción de Chile: building the nation by means of science].

En el marco de la celebración del bicentenario independentista en Chile, la Pontificia Universidad Católica, la Dirección de Bibliotecas, Archivos y Museos y la Cámara Chilena de la Construcción (la mayor multigremial empresarial del país) se reunieron para impulsar la publicación de cerca de un centenar de textos producidos por los primeros científicos del país (técnicos, ingenieros y profesio...

Nation - building

Nations stay together when citizens share enough values and preferences. Homogeneity amongst people can be built with education, teaching a common language to facilitate communication, but also by brute force such as prohibiting local cultures. Democracies and dictators have different incentives when it comes to choosing how much and by what means to homogenize the population. We study and we c...

Etude sur la digestion pancratique de la caseine pour la production de la toxine tetanique

La lutte contre la Fasciolose en Iran

The fructose nation.

There is growing miasma in our national correspondence over the increasing heft and metabolic dysfunction of everyday Americans. The origin of this mounting poundage has many parents, not the least of which is our appetite for nutritive (read caloric) sweeteners in processed foods and beverages. The culprit derivatives taking most heat today are various formulations of added fructose. Bray et a...