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«What does it mean when the law is an experiment too?» | «Turbulent Times Call For Experimental Law _ Experiments with the rule of law around the world are creating the kind of resiliency we need in our era of uncertainty»

 

By Joe MathewsOctober 27, 2026

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Excerto: «MUNICH — Shortly after wandering into the Munich Urban Colab this summer, I found myself trying to follow an intense conversation in German about the city’s new experiment with autonomous buses. A local official, clocking my curious puzzlement, offered an aside in English: “We are asking ourselves: ‘What does it mean when the law is an experiment too?’”

No question may be more essential to governance in our era of dangerous uncertainty. 

Global warming is accelerating faster than global treaties on mitigation can be negotiated. Climate catastrophes occur with a sudden ferocity beyond what current adaptation laws anticipate. Biological threats surface and kill before public health responses can be formulated. And AI is evolving faster and more wildly than regulators or lawmakers, or even its designers, expect.

All this dizzying unpredictability is undermining traditional legal structures. The threat is not just to the rule of law, but to the very nature of law, at least as humans have conceived it.

Our societies have long considered the law a slow and steady force, “the essential foundation of stability and order” in the words of J. William Fulbright. To that end, law is backward-looking — “the government of the living by the dead,” according to Oliver Wendell Holmes. The lawmaking process in republics and democracies is age-old: observe a problem, study its particularities, debate solutions and then carve out a rule that will endure for years or decades. (...)».

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«O Mote do Mundo é a Floresta»

«O Mote do Mundo é a Floresta» é uma instalação de Catarina Leitão desenvolvida especificamente para o Museu Nacional Soares dos Reis a partir de uma investigação no seu acervo.
Tomando como ponto de partida uma tradução livre do título de Ursula K. Le Guin, a exposição propõe olhar para a natureza não como algo separado da cultura, mas como matéria, imagem e construção. Objetos históricos da coleção do MNSR dialogam com esculturas e instalações da artista, aproximando cerâmica, têxtil, pedra, tinta e matéria vegetal.
Entre objetos da coleção, as Naturfaturas de Catarina Leitão e uma instalação que se prolonga até ao jardim, a exposição cria novas relações entre o natural e o fabricado, o orgânico e o industrial, o interior e o exterior. A floresta deixa de ser apenas uma paisagem para se tornar uma forma de pensar e relacionar diferentes matérias, tempos e modos de construir o mundo.

 De 17 outubro a 31 janeiro

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«O alerta sobre o atraso global nas metas ecológicas _ O relatório State of Biodiversity Action, lançado pelo CBD em parceria com a ONU, mostrou que menos da metade das metas nacionais avaliadas está no ritmo necessário. Entre as mais atrasadas estão justamente a ação empresarial (Meta 15) e a redução de subsídios nocivos à natureza. A proteção de áreas também preocupa: hoje, 18,7% das terras e cerca de 10% dos oceanos estão protegidos, segundo a base Protected Planet. Ainda falta muito para a meta de 30% até 2030»

 

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«The global report on collective progress in the implementation of the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework, State of Biodiversity Action, provides the first comprehensive global stocktake of progress towards the Framework’s 2030 targets and 2050 vision.

Drawing on national reports, updated biodiversity strategies, scientific assessments and diverse sources of knowledge, it assesses progress across all 23 targets, identifying achievements, implementation gaps and barriers.

The final report brings together evidence from countries and stakeholders worldwide to examine where progress is advancing and where efforts must accelerate. It highlights the need for stronger implementation, coordinated action and increased ambition to translate global commitments into tangible outcomes for nature.

As a key input to the Global Review at COP 17, the report provides an evidence base to guide decision-making and help Parties and stakeholders accelerate action to halt and reverse biodiversity loss». Mais aqui.

DAVID BYRNE|«Sleeping Beauties:Why Good Ideas Go Dormant and How They Wake Up»

 

«An Instant New York Times Bestseller

"Byrne guides us on a captivating quest to understand how we come to remember forgotten ideas, inventions and technologies . . . Sleeping Beauties belongs on the bookshelf of anyone who cares about creativity or culture." --Adam Grant, The New York Times Book Review

From incomparable creative force David Byrne, a brilliant and inspiring reckoning with how breakthroughs across the arts and sciences get forgotten, and how they get rediscovered

It's nice to believe in a meritocracy of ideas--genius is always recognized, innovation always seized upon and rewarded. In fact, so many of the people we now acknowledge as the world's great creators initially got little traction for their work. It faded out, and only later--often much later--did it somehow came roaring back to life.

Discoveries as diverse as dark matter, lichen, and continental drift . . . technologies from solar panels to the steam engine . . . artists from Bach to Bruegel, Vermeer to Melville . . . all, David Byrne shows us, were sleeping beauties. Why did they fall asleep? How did they wake back up? Ranging across centuries and the full scope of human endeavor, Byrne arrives at important conclusions that serve as a lens for bringing to light new seeds for our future breakthroughs.

Sleeping Beauties is a master class in how not to be blind to the next great thing. Several times throughout history, the shock of the new landed like a blow on vested interests and entrenched views, putting innovation on hold. Suppression emerged from pushback, the absence of key supporters, or simply a lack of complementary economic conditions.

But more important even than why ideas go dormant is why they reawaken. Again and again, Byrne shows, someone from a different discipline breaks into the silo. Frequently it's someone open to metaphorical thinking, to the counterintuitive. Hierarchies and taxonomies have their place, but they can reward insiders and punish outsiders. Oftentimes, it is the winds of change that blow away the sand that has buried momentous ideas.

Sleeping Beauties is humbling but it is also remarkably hopeful. These stories add up to a compass that leads us to the courage to try new things and the wisdom to embrace them. In a time that can seem all too dark, it's a powerful source of freely available light, delightful in itself and fit for all our human endeavors». Saiba mais.

CRUZA PATRIMÓNIO, CIÊNCIA E ARTE | «Uma lista de plantas elaborada em 1789 é o ponto de partida para uma nova forma de descobrir o Jardim Botânico do Palácio Nacional de Queluz»

 

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«Uma lista de plantas elaborada em 1789 é o ponto de partida para uma nova forma de descobrir o Jardim Botânico do Palácio Nacional de Queluz. Registada pelo médico da Rainha D. Maria I, Manuel de Moraes Soares, esta documentação histórica dá origem a uma coleção de estampas que cruza património, ciência e arte, cuja apresentação terá lugar no próximo dia 30 de outubro, às 12h00, no próprio jardim. (...)». Saiba mais.