Program
From April 12 to 18, connect with your curiosity and be part of this digital edition of the Puerto de Ideas Antofagasta 2021 Science Festival, an unmissable meeting where you can share with the most outstanding current scientists and researchers.
A life in science
In general, scientific activity involves rigorous, rational, analytical actions that tend to set aside the world feeling, emotion, passion...
From Freud to Zoom
How has psychotherapy changed over the years and what are the central discoveries that have made it the reliable, effective treatment that it is today?...
In defense of neurorights
Advances in neuroscience, technology and artificial intelligence have introduced a range of possibilities for manipulating the human brain and thought...
Scientific Café
Our modern-day lives are quite clearly framed and conditioned by algorithms to which we slowly adapt, for consumer purposes, education, work, information and leisure...
From curiosity to scientific knowledge
For Erwin Neher, curiosity is the key ingredient in scientific research. It was thanks to curiosity that, along with his lab partner Bert Sakmann, he decided to resume studying the electricity that circulates through the human body...
I don’t know: Science and the difficulty of communicating uncertainties
Exploring the unknown, posing and testing hypotheses, analyzing results, discussing those results and questioning them again and again: these are things that people in the sciences do on a daily basis...
Scientific Café
The progress of digital technologies feels inevitable. It is becoming harder and harder to argue that faster, more powerful and less expensive systems aren’t more attractive than the old-fashioned kind...
The answers are in the data
Over the past several years data use and analysis have become increasingly important issues that have generated some intense debate...
What happened to life on Venus?
The supposed discovery of life on Venus is a case in point, an incident that posed some very serious questions and sparked a gripping scientific debate...
Monsters and miracles of science
In this conversation, Labatut will share his experiences and thoughts regarding the notion of how science can become literature...
