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Pere Renom

“We have given you, O Adam, no visage proper to yourself, nor endowment properly your own, in order that whatever place, whatever form, whatever gifts you may, with premeditation, select, these same you may have and possess through your own judgement and decision […] We have made you a creature neither of heaven nor of earth, neither mortal nor immortal as the free and proud shaper of your own being, fashion yourself in the form you may prefer.”
Oration on the Dignity of Man – Giovanni Pico della Mirandola

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Masters of wood

published on 16.02.2016

The reporter Pere Renom knows a guitar maker and attends an authentication of a guitar theoretically built in 1867 in Sevilla by a man named Antonio de Torres, the equivalent of Stradivarius in violins. Renom also participates in the construction of a wooden house, greener and quicker to make than conventional homes. And he visits […]

Robots: improving nature

published on 22.10.2012

A robotic scalpel made in the Politechnical University of Catalonia adapts to heartbeat and makes the surgeon to operate with greater precision because it has the feel of operating a stopped heart. A submarine robot that can rescue a black box at 500 meters depth, the Girona 500, and a small slave who cleans the […]

The Mediterranean monk seal

published on 11.04.2007

The reporter Pere Renom travels to the Cabo Blanco peninsula on the coast of Mauritania, to see the last great Mediterranean monk seal colony and know what is being done to preserve it. Also navigates to the Columbrete Islands to study one of the last places in the Western Mediterranean where it disappeared.