Happy Birthday 102! Antonio Lima-de-Faria

~ Suzan Mazur
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ANTONIO LIMA-DE-FARIA


A. Lima-de-Faria: Autoevolution, Atoms to Humans; Antonio Lima-de-Faria: The Law of Biological Periodicity; Antonio Lima-de-Faria: “Stave Off” Deadly Obscurantism

I hope to reach cytogeneticist Antonio Lima-de-Faria by phone in Sweden today, July 4, to wish him Happy Birthday!  I know of no other scientist researching and writing at 102!

Antonio is one of science’s treasures, aptly decorated “Knight of the North Star” by the king of Sweden many years ago. He has been affiliated with Lund University for much of his scientific career, but his extraordinary insights in books and papers have been widely translated and continue to inspire. Antonio is truly a brilliant light in the night sky.

To celebrate Antonio’s 100th birthday, a concert was performed in his honor at his home town of Cantanhede, Portugal. A party followed with family and friends in the rose garden at his present home atop a fjord in Sweden.

Wishing you an even more marvelous 102nd birthday, Antonio Jose Cortesao Pais Lima-de-Faria!

[Note: I have just reached Antonio Lima-de-Faria, who was his usual ebullient self. He said his phone has been ringing non-stop with birthday wishes and that Portuguese university students called to sing to him earlier today. His secret to long life has always been his work. He told me he is amused that his July 4, 1921 birth date now confuses computers.]

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Published by Suzan Mazur

I'm the author of five books: The Altenberg 16: An Exposé of the Evolution Industry; The Origin of Life Circus: A How To Make Life Extravaganza; The Paradigm Shifters: Overthrowing 'the Hegemony of the Culture of Darwin'; Royal Society: The Public Evolution Summit; and the most recent---Darwin Overthrown: Hello Mechanobiology. My reports have appeared in the Financial Times, The Economist, Forbes, Newsday, Archaeology, Astrobiology, Connoisseur, Omni, Huffington Post, Progressive Review ("How Bush Got Bounced From Carlyle Board"), CounterPunch, Scoop Media and other publications, as well as on PBS, CBC and MBC. More than a dozen of my stories related to the Rome antiquities conspiracy trial were featured in Harvard Law School's Art Law Syllabus 2008. I've covered the wars: Colombian Drug War, Gulf War, Sudan, and Kashmir (from both the Indian and Pakistani sides of the conflict). And I’ve been a guest on Charlie Rose, McLaughlin and various Fox Television News programs talking about those crises and others. For some years along the way, I was a runway fashion model for legends Geoffrey Beene, Bill Blass, Giorgio Sant' Angelo and so many more.

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