LA NATURA LO FA MEGLIO (E PRIMA)

Giorgio Volpi, brilliant chemist at Turin University, takes us on a personal and universal journey full of fascinating stories, capable of making us rethink about our place in the world.

Many of human's great ideas appeared on Earth long before our arrival. For centuries, humans have been considered the superior living being to all other species. Humans do things that animals can not do: they make cars and telephones, dress clothes and dye their hair, and have created the Internet, guns, vaccines, and submarines. Their superiority seems evident, thanks to discoveries that did not exist in nature... but are we sure that is really this way? Ahead us, evolution through endless trial and error, selected in plants and animals some truly amazing abilities and characteristics: lake bacteria that produce magnetic particles better than any laboratory; an abyssal mollusk capable of explaining iron oxides to us; mushrooms that produce bio-luminescent substances and plants that do have sensors for smoke. Technology is constantly being exceeded by the "products" already available in nature. Giorgio Volpi, brilliant chemist at Turin University takes us on a personal and universal journey full of fascinating stories, capable of making us rethink about our place in the world.