Coldplay - The Scientist

Come up to meet you, tell you I'm sorry

You don't know how lovely you are

I had to find you, tell you I need you

And tell you I set you apart

Tell me your secrets, And ask me your questions

Oh let's go back to the start

Running in circles, Coming in tails

Heads on a science apart

Nobody said it was easy

It's such a shame for us to part

Nobody said it was easy

No one ever said it would be this hard

Oh take me back to the start

I was just guessing at numbers and figures

Pulling the puzzles apart

Questions of science, science and progress

Don't speak as loud as my heart

And tell me you love me, Come back and haunt me

Oh when I rush to the start

Running in circles, Chasing tails

Coming back as we are

Nobody said it was easy

Oh it's such a shame for us to part

Nobody said it was easy

No one ever said it would be so hard

I'm going back to the start

Video game therapy helps in the treatment of visual impairment

      Amblyopia, also known as "lazy eye" is a failure of normal development of the visual system that can cause the reduction or loss of vision. Currently the most common treatment is the occlusion, ie, the use of a buffer during childhood that forces the poor development of the eye. However, the practice is no longer effective after eight years of age.

      In search of new methods to combat amblyopia, UC Berkeley researchers conducted a study using common video games in the treatment of young people and adults, which have had very interesting results. The therapy with video games was used to treat a group of 20 people between 15 and 61 years with amblyopia.

      The patients participated of several sessions of 2 hours of play (totaling 40 hours). The volunteers were divided into two groups: the first was subjected to rounds of Medal of Honor: Pacific Assault while the second group combined sessions of the game SimCity Societies using the technique of occlusion of the "good" eye.

      The study demonstrated an improvement of the visual acuity and three-dimensional perception. According to Dr. Roger Li, author and coordinator of research, this is the first concrete proof that video games can help in the recovery of visual acuity in adults with amblyopia.

      Remembering that at the beginning of the year at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES), a game controlled by the movement of the eyes showed another application of games in the treatment of amblyopia.

God is in Dendrites

      The text "God is in Dendrites", speaks about experiencies made with people of the different religions to know if God exists or if is only things of ours heads.

      The John Templeton foundation hopes to find God in science, they said that God can't be found in anywhere, It is just found in the electrical crackling of ours  brains.

      Ours meditating neurons, are capable to activate most of our brain cortex, they grow a lot, so is explicained more on trancelike states, but it has two different ways of the explin all this. The believers take them as scientific evidence for the reality of their vision, while the atheists claim more proof that God is all in our head.

      The brain and everything that it is able to do, are the most important things in this text, and whitout it, the things would be different, it is able to do unimaginable things, and it is what takes us to this world of imaginations.

Who we are

      My name is Camila de Calazans Fernandes Vieira, I am 18 years old. I was born in Martins/RN, but I live in Natal/RN since my childhood. I attended elementary school at the Facex Teaching Center and concluded high school at Contemporâneo Educational Complex in 2010, where I participated in a mini-company project of Junior Achievement in 2009, to expand my knowledge on how to manage a company.

I worked, for experience, for two months as a salesperson in my family’s company (Camaleoa clothing store).

I identified myself with the course in Bachelor of Science and Technology because it offers an extensive labor market, especially abroad, where I intend to follow my career as an engineer. At first, I have not decided yet on which course to take, but I have a great admiration for Mechanical Engineering and Petroleum Engineering, and I identify myself very well with Civil Engineering course and Architecture course also.

I have the drawing as a hobby, I love martial arts, study, movies, beach and music. I like to hang out with my friends to parties or small bars, for example, but I enjoy family programs.

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My name is Thiego Albuquerque Bezerra de Freitas, I was born in Natal, where I live since that I was born, I am 21 years old and live with my parents.

I began my academic life at a little school near of where I live called Cônego Monte. When I came into to elementary school I went to the Criativo Cooperativista School, where I finished all the high school also. I tried vestibular per once to Biomedicine at UFRN, but I didn't achieve success. I tried two more times for the course of Bachelor of Science and Technology, where I achieve success in come into in the University. I'm a fellow of UFRN, my duties and performance as a fellow are at the University Hospital Onofre Lopes.

I intend to enter the course Petroleum Engineering and do contest to the Petrobras. When I finish the graduation, I wish to postgraduate and doctorate for adapt me better the modern and competitive employment situation. Currently, I am a fellow of UFRN and I dedicate myself entirely the university.

My preferences are playing sports, watching movies, hanging out with friends and listen to music daily. 

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 My name is Neyla Karolinne Laurentino Varela, I am 19 years old and was born in Natal - RN where I live today with my father and my sister of 21 years. I'm a Catholic and I consider myself extrovert and friendly, but sometimes I'm very stupid and rude to people. I love my friends. I love hanging out with them, go to the movies, bars, parties, or even go to their places to chat about our lives, eat popcorn, chocolate truffle, watching movie horror and laugh a lot.

I'm pretty eclectic and my musical tastes include, forro, pagode, MPB and some reggae bands, rock and world music. When it comes to food, I also like a bit of everything, I love pasta, pizza, lasagna, pasta, and, of course, Brazilian food, beans, rice, steak, but do not like liver and Chinese food. I love sports, mainly, basketball, volleyball and indoor volleyball.

I finished the Elementary and Secondary Education in Complexo Educacional Contemporâneo. I studied Tecnologia em Análise e Desenvolvimento de sistemas (TADS), for a semester, at Instituto Federal do Rio Grande do Norte (IFRN), but I realized that was not what I wanted, because it is a course for those who want to continue being a programmer or web the designer. Then I spent at the Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte to BCT – Bacharelado em Ciências e Tecnologia - to try to enter into Petroleum Engineering.

I want to travel the world, meet new cultures, new people, new foods, in general, new ways of living, buy clothes, perfumes, electronics, and many gifts. Maybe go to Buenos Aires, or Paris, or know everything in Europe. These are future plans.

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My name is Rafael Randel. I'm 20 and I am from Belem, but I have been living in Natal since I was four years old.

I finished the high school at Complexo Educacional Contemporâneo in 2008 and now I am taking Bachelor in Science & Technology, BCT, at UFRN.

I really enjoy playing sports, getting to know new technology devices, listening to music, watching movies, playing guitar, going out with my family and friends and traveling on my vacations, most part of my spare time is spent with that stuff. I like to develop new skills as programmer and software maker and I also like to keep myself aware of what is happening in the world.

I always wanted be an engineer, but for not be totally sure about which course to take at first, I chose the BCT. After have studied some subjects and have known better the courses, now I am sure that I want to take Mechatronics Engineering in the second cycle of BCT.

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 My name is Ana Gabriela Lins Fídias Freitas. I was born in Pau dos Ferros and I lived there until my 14's, when I moved to Natal to graduate at High School. I am 19 now and I live with my parents.

I first started to study at Educandario Imaculada Conceição that is a school in Pau dos Ferros. I studied there until the eighth grade, because after that I moved to Natal and finished the High School at Overdose Colégio e Curso. Then, I did vestibular, that it's like the SAT in USA, and I started college at Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte.

As a student from UFRN, I do want to study the subsequent course of Petroleum Engineering and try, later, to work for Petrobras. If I'm not succeed at this first choice that I made, I will try to study Physics. However, nowadays, I'm trying to work as a intern for a company in my area.

When I have finished my degree, I have plans to do a postgraduate course to make me feel more comfortable in the modern and competitive labor market. Nowadays, I dedicate myself in fulltime to my college, but soon I intend to work towards my financial independence.