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The Second Reader

Por Luís Matos Ferreira outubro 17, 2026

AI now reads mammograms and predicts the shapes of proteins. It has not yet produced an approved medicine, and people who asked chatbots about symptoms did no better than those who did not. Where medicine is changing, and where it is not.

Productive by Definition

Por Luís Matos Ferreira outubro 16, 2026

Economics now counts as productive whatever earns an income. It was not always so. How the line between making and taking moved, and what it does to banks, the State and medicines.

The Fathers Who Stayed

Por Luís Matos Ferreira outubro 15, 2026

Women’s genetic lines spread from village to village; men’s stayed home, and often died out together. Why male lineages collapsed worldwide after farming began, and how scientists model it.

Made, Not Born

Por Luís Matos Ferreira outubro 14, 2026

Long before anyone built a robot, Greek poets imagined bronze guards, golden servants and a woman made to order. What the old stories really say, what retellings add, and what they miss about AI.

The Tollkeepers

Por Luís Matos Ferreira outubro 14, 2026

Some incomes reward making something. Others are tolls on what would have been made anyway. Joseph Stiglitz argued that the tolls explain much of the rise at the top. Ten years on, the evidence, and Portugal’s own tollkeepers.

The Manufactured Public

Por Luís Matos Ferreira outubro 14, 2026

One organisation can look like a crowd. From Cambridge Analytica to conversational AI: how political influence is disguised and amplified, what the evidence says it achieves, and what would make it visible.

The Slime Mold

Por Luís Matos Ferreira outubro 14, 2026

An AI that copies itself from machine to machine was long a thought experiment. In October 2026 Anthropic reported that small models are close to doing it on cheap household devices. What was shown, what was not, and why the defence looks more like public health than like a kill switch.