N9.JUL 2020 LIFE N9. JUL 2020 LIFE Transforming light into energy is a faculty only a few species have. In other words, leaves feed the plants that will ultimately nourish other life forms. Before leafing through this edition, we invite you to take a closer look at the cover. The macro image of a leaf is a metaphor for life in its essence: a powerful yet fragile beauty meant to be cherished, respected and enjoyed. HOLDING ON ANATOMY LIFE FEED.JERONIMOMARTINS.COM THROUGH OF A AS WE DON’T THE STORM LIFE LINE KNOW IT A TRIBUTE TO LIFE The unexpected pandemic has been a hard reminder of how precious, yet fragile, life is. In this edition of Feed, we invite you to join us in a tribute to LIFE, by celebrating some of its uncountable INDEX. expressions and manifestations. THE TIME OF OUR LIVES HOLDING ON 28.37 THROUGH THE STORM As the Covid-19 outbreak was starting to be felt all over the world, the Jerónimo Martins Group has been proving its resilience, while protecting employees, backing up suppliers and supporting those on the frontline. OXYGEN 64.79 FOR TRADITION LARGER THAN LIFE 102.107 Fernando Pessoa was a man with many lives. With many ways of thinking. With different 38.43 It comes from the ground, usually ways of expressing feelings. The countless personalities that lived within his mind helped On a cosmic timescale, the history from streams, rivers and other areas where forge one of the most significant literary figures of the 20th century. of the most widespread species of life flows. Clay is nothing more than a animals on Earth is as brief as the simple combination of mineral-rich soil blink of an eye, showing us how and water. But in the hands of the right magnificently insignificant humans people, it can be brought to life: shaped are in the grand scheme. into useful everyday objects or even pieces LIFE AS of pure beauty. WE DON’T AND MORE... KNOW IT ANATOMY OF A LIFE LINE 14.21 90.101 LIFE IN BLOOM Beyond Earth, the chances of life existing 80.89 44.47 nearby are there. As well as the answers that help explain the existence of life The Biedronka Foundation was launched A PANDEMIC BEEING on Earth. A great number of questions with the mission of helping elderly people still orbit the scientific community. live better, healthier and longer lives. EXPLAINED ALIVE Portuguese astrobiologist Zita Martins GO AWAY BAROMETER Lives worth living. addresses some of them. OF LIFE 54.57 BEYOND 22.27 48.53 THE HORIZON More than 75 % of our food rely on António Araújo, an expert in contemporary pollinators. Bees play a crucial role, but history, draws a connection between 112.117 58.63 are facing a serious decline. According humankind and the Greenland shark, More than 31,000 species are to FAO, in a world without bees, a 7-meter long predator capable of living threatened with extinction, A PRECIOUS supermarkets would have only half the for several hundred years, but incapable representing 27 % of all animal and amount of fruit and vegetables. of stopping a parasite the size of a penny. FEAR plant life assessed to date. 4.5 CONTRIBUTORS. ANDRÉ ANTÓNIO JERÓNIMO NATALIA NUNO PEDRO CARRILHO ARAÚJO PIZARRO JABŁOŃSKA SEQUEIRA SIMAS ILLUSTRATOR JURIST LITERATURE PROFESSOR VISUAL ARTIST BIOLOGIST VIROLOGIST AND HISTORIAN AND EDITOR AND PHOTOGRAPHER AND BIOLOGY PROFESSOR AND VIROLOGY PROFESSOR André Carrilho has won over 30 national António Araújo is a legal expert, Jerónimo Pizarro is a professor at the Natalia Jabłońska is a Polish visual artist, With a degree in Biology from the Pedro Simas is Head Researcher at the and international prizes in illustration, university professor and Director of Universidad de los Andes and holds the illustrator, and photographer. She has an University of Évora, Nuno attended Portuguese Molecular Medicine Institute editorial cartoon, animation and caricature. Publications and member of the Board Camões Institute Chair of Portuguese Art Master degree, after graduating in a Master’s degree in Conservation Biology (Instituto de Medicina Molecular João His work has been published in an of Directors of Fundação Francisco Manuel Studies in Colombia. He has a PhD the Jan Matejko Academy of Fine Arts at the same university. He is a professor Lobo Antunes), a biomedical research extended list of newspapers and magazines, dos Santos. He is also a consultant on in Hispanic Literatures (2008, Harvard in Kraków. In 2016, she also studied at and biologist, and is assigned to institute. He is also Professor of Virology including The New York Times, The New political affairs for the Civil House of the University) and a PhD in Portuguese Faculdade de Belas-Artes da Universidade Quercus (Portuguese Association for at Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade Yorker, Vanity Fair, New York Magazine, President of the Portuguese Republic. Linguistics (2006, Universidade de Lisboa). de Lisboa (School of Fine Arts, University Nature Conservation) through Agência de Lisboa (Lisbon School of Medicine). Independent on Sunday, NZZ am Sonntag, António Araújo is the author of several He is responsible for most of Fernando of Lisbon). In 2015, Natalia won the Portuguesa do Ambiente (Portuguese Holds a PhD on Virology from Cambridge Harper’s Magazine, Diário de Notícias, books and articles on contemporary history, Pessoa’s new editions and series of texts Piørko (Biedronka Children’s Literature Environment Agency), where he designs University, where he initiated research Expresso and New Statesman. In 2015, constitutional law and political science. published in Portugal since 2006, being Prize) in the illustration category. activities for environmental education in understanding basic molecular one of his cartoons on the Ebola epidemic currently in charge of “Colecção Pessoa” programmes. He is a member of the mechanisms involved in herpes virus became viral worldwide, winning the Grand at Tinta-da-China publishing house. In Quercus Biodiversity Working Group, infections associated with specific forms Prize at the World Press Cartoon. 2013, he won the Eduardo Lourenço Prize. where he coordinates several ongoing of cancer like lymphomas. projects, and is a sitting member of the Portuguese Biologists Association. JOSÉ JUAN PABLO MANUEL ROBERTO ZITA PALMA-OLIVEIRA QUINTERO TIBERIO AYALA PALACIO MARTINS PSYCHOLOGY PROFESSOR ANTHROPOLOGIST/ PHYSICIAN PHILOSOPHER ASTROBIOLOGIST AND RESEARCHER ARCHAEOLOGIST AND EPIDEMIOLOGIST AND ESSAYIST José Palma-Oliveira is an assistant Juan Pablo Quintero is an anthropologist/ Manuel Tiberio Ayala is a Colombian Roberto Palacio is a philosopher and Zita Martins is an astrobiologist, an professor of social and environmental archaeologist at the Universidad de los physician, specialised in epidemiology and essayist born in Bogotá, Colombia. After associate professor at Instituto Superior psychology at the Universidade de Lisboa Andes. He has a post-graduated diploma with a master’s degree in Public Health an academic teaching career at the Técnico (IST, Portugal), and the and a distinguished visiting scholar of the in Mediterranean Nautical Archaeology at Pontificia Universidad Javeriana. He Universidad de los Andes, he has been, Co-Director of the MIT-Portugal University of Virginia. He is a specialist from Universitat de Barcelona and a MA in has worked as a researcher in virology since 2009, a philosophy disseminator Programme. Her research areas include in risk perception and management, Anthropology with emphasis in Archaeology and directed health risk management and a regular collaborator for Colombian the detection of bio-signatures in space with research and publications focused from Universidad de los Andes. Currently, programmes amongst HIV and rurally magazines, such as El Malpensante, Soho, missions, and the potential contribution of on the interaction between people and he is curator at the Museo del Oro in Bogotá dispersed vulnerable populations. He was and Esquire. organic compounds present in meteorites the environment. and chair professor at the Universidad health advisor for multilateral organisations and comets to the origin of life on Earth. Externado de Colombia on theory and health trade associations in Colombia. Currently, she is co-investigator of two of public opinion. He is currently designing disruptive ESA (European Space Agency) missions. epidemiological strategies to confront the Covid-19 pandemic based on intelligent social isolation. 6.7 an important part of our lives for so long has many fronts. Science is key and for that reason we joined the Coronavirus Global Response efforts and also supported the launch of an innovative smart test in Portugal, together with the Portuguese Red Cross Hospital. Empathy and solidarity are the other side of the coin and that is why, for instance, the recently launched Biedronka Foundation has set up a large-scale support action for the nursing and special care homes in Poland, providing these institutions with personal protection materials. Every week, Pingo Doce and Recheio have been donating on-the-go food supplies in more than thirty PEDRO public hospitals in Portugal as a humble way of showing gratitude towards the public health SOARES teams and their extraordinary sense of mission. TO And in Colombia, Ara has been contributing with I believe DOS donations in around one hundred municipalities. Along the next pages, we invite you to join us SANTOS in a tribute to LIFE by celebrating some of its we have been uncountable expressions and manifestations. From unique people who are greater than life living up to the LOVE – such as the great Portuguese poet Fernando Pessoa – to people from whom we can learn how to live a more meaningful life – like Polish Sister value of putting Małgorzata Chmielewska; from exploring what science is doing to discover life on other planets or to fight the new coronavirus, to understanding people’s safety LIFE a bit more about the mysteries of human mind and behaviour in limit situations.