Scientists from all over the world at USISTF workshop

Florence Dome (Sailko)The U.S-Israel Science and Technology Foundation, in partnership with the Florida International University, the University of Maryland-Baltimore County, and the Technion, convened an international science workshop that brought together an international assembly of medical and computer scientists focused on how to use knowledge mining and bioinformatics tools to advance personalized diagnostics and therapeutics.

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“Americans in Florence”, a tribute to Vespucci

Palazzo Strozzi (Sailko)The exhibition “Americans in Florence. Sargent and the American Impressionists”, 2 March – 15 July 2012 at Palazzo Strozzi, explores the American impressionists’ relationship with Italy, and with Florence, 500 years since the death of Amerigo Vespucci.  The exhibition is designed to celebrate the strong ties linking the Old and the New World, and the cosmopolitan ambiance transmitting European culture to America.

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Famous frieze restored in Villa Medici

Villa Medicea (Massimiliano Galardi) - CCSaturday, March 3, 2012 at 17 will be opened and presented to the public the new exhibition hall of the Villa Medici at Poggio a Caiano with the famous frieze in terracotta glazed. The new Hall of Frieze is dedicated to the famous frieze of the late fifteenth century commissioned by Lorenzo the Magnificent inspired by the classical myths and allegories interpreted as the Platonic myth of the soul.

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Jurassic Park in Florence, walking with Dinosaurs

Dinos in Florence (Met)A desire to see a real-life prehistoric monster lies behind the success of life-sized reconstructions, from the famous examples in the exhibition at London’s Crystal Palace in 1851, to the more recent “Jurassic Park” and “Walking with Dinosaurs”. Today, this idea takes new form in Florence, leaving behind the confines of cinema and television to embrace again the whole visual horizon.

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Italians in dispute on the floor of Piazza Signoria

Piazza_della_Signoria (Samuli Lintula) - CCPiazza Signoria paved in brick “would be beautiful and most people think the same. It is an idea that should be made ​​with some sponsors, we want to verify it in the next few weeks: I do not understand the prejudice of someone”. The mayor of Florence, Matteo Renzi, still speaks of the idea he announced Monday at the city council, to bring back the historic square of floor tiles, as it originally was.

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