sábado, 31 de março de 2012
US Military-industrial comples
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Como criatividade funciona
In Imagine: How Creativity Works, Jonah Lehrer explores some of the myths of creativity and discovers that it isn’t a gift possessed by a lucky few, but rather a variety of processes that everyone can learn to use more efficiently. This 32-minute conversation ranges from the origins of the Swiffer, why 3M is such an innovative company, what people who work alone can do to replicate the creative advantages of the busy workplace, to Steve Jobs’ views on proper bathroom placement.
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sexta-feira, 30 de março de 2012
quinta-feira, 29 de março de 2012
Liberdade acadêmica
A liberdade acadêmica consiste no direito de escolher o problema a investigar, em conduzir a pesquisa sem qualquer controle externo e em ensinar o assunto em pauta à luz de opiniões próprias. (POLANYI, 2003, pág. 69)
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O desejo para a transcendência
Professor in the Social Psychology area of the Department of Psychology at the University of Virginia.
Psychologist Jonathan Haidt asks a simple, but difficult question: why do we search for self-transcendence? Why do we attempt to lose ourselves? In a tour through the science of evolution by group selection, he proposes a provocative answer.Assista a apresentação de 18 min no youtube
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RIP Millôr Fernandes (1923-2012)
"Viva o Brasil, onde o ano inteiro é primeiro de abril". ~Millôr Fernandes
"Viver é desenhar sem borracha". Foi esta frase de Millôr Fernandes a grande ficha que caiu para mim em um determinado momento de minha vida, a ponto de se tornar um de meus lemas favoritos: nunca me arrepender daquilo que fiz. E esta foi apenas uma das milhares de grandes sacadas que este mestre do humor fino, inteligente, sarcástico e atemporal proferiu ao longo da vida. Vida que se foi na noite de terça passada.
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Millôr Fernandes se foi e o Brasil ficou muito mais burro….
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PIBIC UFS
Divulgados os editais de 2012 do Pibic e do Pibiti
Inscrições de projetos serão feitas pelos professores de 2 a 20/4 no SIGAAA Pró-Reitoria de Pós-Graduação e Pesquisa da UFS (Posgrap) divulga os editais 2012-2013 para os programas Institucionais de Iniciação Científica (Pibic), Iniciação Científica Voluntária (Picvol), Iniciação em Desenvolvimento Tecnológico e Inovação (Pibiti) e Iniciação em Desenvolvimento Tecnológico e Inovação Voluntária (Pibitivol).
Faz-se necessário ressaltar que, para participar de quaisquer programas, os docentes devem inserir toda a sua propriedade intelectual dos últimos três anos no Sistema Integrado de Gestão de Atividades Acadêmicas (SIGAA). Além disso, os estudantes que desejarem pleitear uma das bolsas deve ter média geral ponderada (MGP) igual ou superior a 7,0 (sete) ou índice de Regularidade (IR) maior que 0,7.
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É possivel que uma nação enteira torna-se louca?
20 Signs That We Are Witnessing The Complete Collapse Of Common Sense In America
What do you do when an entire nation begins to lose the capacity to think rationally? Many Americans spend a great deal of time criticizing the government, and there is certainly a lot to complain about, but it is not just the government that is the problem. All over America, people appear to be going insane. It is almost as if we have been cursed with stupidity. Sadly, this applies from the very top of our society all the way down to the very bottom. A lot of us find ourselves asking the following question much more frequently these days: "How could they be so stupid?" Unfortunately, we are witnessing a complete collapse of common sense all over America.
The following are 20 signs that we are witnessing the complete collapse of common sense in America....
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What do you do when an entire nation begins to lose the capacity to think rationally? Many Americans spend a great deal of time criticizing the government, and there is certainly a lot to complain about, but it is not just the government that is the problem. All over America, people appear to be going insane. It is almost as if we have been cursed with stupidity. Sadly, this applies from the very top of our society all the way down to the very bottom. A lot of us find ourselves asking the following question much more frequently these days: "How could they be so stupid?" Unfortunately, we are witnessing a complete collapse of common sense all over America.
The following are 20 signs that we are witnessing the complete collapse of common sense in America....
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quarta-feira, 28 de março de 2012
Novos critérios CNPq da produção científica
Inovação e divulgação de projetos em jornais são novos critérios de avaliação da produção científica
Enviado por Danilo Christiano Antunes Meira, em 27 de março de 2012
Palavras-chave: CNPQ, Currículo, Inovação, Jornal, Lattes, Pesquisa
Palavras-chave: CNPQ, Currículo, Inovação, Jornal, Lattes, Pesquisa
Por Gilberto Costa, Repórter da Agência Brasil
O Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico (CNPq) vai acrescentar, na plataforma eletrônica Lattes, que traz currículos e atividades de 1,8 milhão de pesquisadores de todo o país, duas novas abas para divulgação pública. Em uma delas, os cientistas brasileiros informarão sobre a inovação de seus projetos e pesquisas; e na outra, deverão descrever iniciativas de divulgação e de educação científica.
Com a mudança, cientistas de todos os campos de investigação deverão descrever, na Plataforma Lattes, dados sobre a organização de feira de ciências, promoção de palestras em escolas, artigos e entrevistas concedidas à imprensa – além das informações básicas como dados pessoais, formação acadêmica, atuação profissional, publicações, linhas e projetos de pesquisa, áreas de atuação e domínio de idioma estrangeiros. A intenção do CNPq é aumentar o conhecimento da sociedade sobre as atividades científicas que ocorrem no país.
“No século 21, o cientista reconhece seu papel de engajamento na sociedade. Ele sabe que está sendo pago e financiado e que deve uma prestação de contas sobre o que faz”, disse o presidente do CNPq, Glaucius Oliva, em entrevista à Agência Brasil. “Ainda há um fosso grande entre aqueles que fazem ciência e aqueles que consomem e financiam a ciência. A sociedade não conhece com profundidade toda a riqueza com que a ciência brasileira tem contribuindo para o desenvolvimento nacional”, avaliou.
Segundo Oliva, passou a ser papel dos cientistas dar publicidade às atividades de pesquisa, mostrar experimentos e explicar projetos para o público, e ligar o trabalho a inovações que contribuam com as políticas públicas e até mesmo para a criação de novos produtos a serem lançados no mercado.
Mais:O Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico (CNPq) vai acrescentar, na plataforma eletrônica Lattes, que traz currículos e atividades de 1,8 milhão de pesquisadores de todo o país, duas novas abas para divulgação pública. Em uma delas, os cientistas brasileiros informarão sobre a inovação de seus projetos e pesquisas; e na outra, deverão descrever iniciativas de divulgação e de educação científica.
Com a mudança, cientistas de todos os campos de investigação deverão descrever, na Plataforma Lattes, dados sobre a organização de feira de ciências, promoção de palestras em escolas, artigos e entrevistas concedidas à imprensa – além das informações básicas como dados pessoais, formação acadêmica, atuação profissional, publicações, linhas e projetos de pesquisa, áreas de atuação e domínio de idioma estrangeiros. A intenção do CNPq é aumentar o conhecimento da sociedade sobre as atividades científicas que ocorrem no país.
“No século 21, o cientista reconhece seu papel de engajamento na sociedade. Ele sabe que está sendo pago e financiado e que deve uma prestação de contas sobre o que faz”, disse o presidente do CNPq, Glaucius Oliva, em entrevista à Agência Brasil. “Ainda há um fosso grande entre aqueles que fazem ciência e aqueles que consomem e financiam a ciência. A sociedade não conhece com profundidade toda a riqueza com que a ciência brasileira tem contribuindo para o desenvolvimento nacional”, avaliou.
Segundo Oliva, passou a ser papel dos cientistas dar publicidade às atividades de pesquisa, mostrar experimentos e explicar projetos para o público, e ligar o trabalho a inovações que contribuam com as políticas públicas e até mesmo para a criação de novos produtos a serem lançados no mercado.
http://www.jurisciencia.com/noticias/inovacao-e-divulgacao-de-projetos-em-jornais-sao-novos-criterios-de-avaliacao-da-producao-cientifica/963/
segunda-feira, 26 de março de 2012
Nietzsche - pensador da modernidade
Veja o BBC documentário legendado Nietzsche - Human, All too Human
A semente do pensamento disseminado por Nietzsche no século 19 prefigurava o piloto do século 20 sobre os conceitos do existencialismo e da psicanálise. Este programa conta com entrevistas de grandes estudiosos do pensamento do Nietzsche sendo eles: Ronald Hayman e Leslie Chamberlain (biógrafos de Nietzsche), Andrea Bollinger (arquivista), Reg Hollingdale (tradutor), Will Self (escritor) e Keith Ansell Pearson (filosofa) que sonda a vida e os escritos de Nietzsche. Além de mostrar também o papel da irmã de Nietzsche na edição de suas obras para o uso como propaganda nazista. Contando também com partes de prosas aforísticas extraídas de obras como a parábola de um louco e assim falou Zaratustra, com isto transmitir a essência e o estilo do pensador profético.
domingo, 25 de março de 2012
Reprovação - mais uma doença do sistema de educação brasileira
Zero Hora – A cada ano, perto de 300 mil alunos são afetados por um dos mais graves problemas da educação gaúcha: o alto índice de reprovação.
Esse fenômeno atrasa o fluxo estudantil de 19,9% dos estudantes do Ensino Médio em estabelecimentos públicos ou privados — o que torna o Estado campeão nacional de repetência nessa etapa. Além disso, afeta 14,2% dos matriculados no nível Fundamental, compromete o desempenho em sala de aula e é uma das principais razões para a desistência. Apenas na rede estadual, a retenção e o abandono escolar representam um desperdício de R$ 790 milhões por ano.
O mais estreito funil do ensino gaúcho está nas escolas estaduais e municipais. E, nessas redes, principalmente no Ensino Médio. No 1º ano, a reprovação chega a reter quase um terço dos alunos, conforme dados de 2010. O Fundamental também apresenta índices elevados, superando os 17% na rede estadual.
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Esse fenômeno atrasa o fluxo estudantil de 19,9% dos estudantes do Ensino Médio em estabelecimentos públicos ou privados — o que torna o Estado campeão nacional de repetência nessa etapa. Além disso, afeta 14,2% dos matriculados no nível Fundamental, compromete o desempenho em sala de aula e é uma das principais razões para a desistência. Apenas na rede estadual, a retenção e o abandono escolar representam um desperdício de R$ 790 milhões por ano.
O mais estreito funil do ensino gaúcho está nas escolas estaduais e municipais. E, nessas redes, principalmente no Ensino Médio. No 1º ano, a reprovação chega a reter quase um terço dos alunos, conforme dados de 2010. O Fundamental também apresenta índices elevados, superando os 17% na rede estadual.
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Como se faz decisões
THE RIGHTEOUS MIND
Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion
By Jonathan Haidt
Illustrated. 419 pp. Pantheon Books. $28.95.
Haidt seems to delight in mischief. Drawing on ethnography, evolutionary theory and experimental psychology, he sets out to trash the modern faith in reason. In Haidt's retelling, all the fools, foils and villains of intellectual history are recast as heroes. David Hume, the Scottish philosopher who notoriously said reason was fit only to be "the slave of the passions," was largely correct. E. O. Wilson, the ecologist who was branded a fascist for stressing the biological origins of human behavior, has been vindicated by the study of moral emotions. Even Glaucon, the cynic in Plato's "Republic" who told Socrates that people would behave ethically only if they thought they were being watched, was "the guy who got it right."
To the question many people ask about politics - Why doesn't the other side listen to reason? - Haidt replies: We were never designed to listen to reason. When you ask people moral questions, time their responses and scan their brains, their answers and brain activation patterns indicate that they reach conclusions quickly and produce reasons later only to justify what they've decided. The funniest and most painful illustrations are Haidt's transcripts of interviews about bizarre scenarios. Is it wrong to have sex with a dead chicken? How about with your sister? Is it O.K. to defecate in a urinal? If your dog dies, why not eat it? Under interrogation, most subjects in psychology experiments agree these things are wrong. But none can explain why.
The problem isn't that people don't reason. They do reason. But their arguments aim to support their conclusions, not yours. Reason doesn't work like a judge or teacher, impartially weighing evidence or guiding us to wisdom. It works more like a lawyer or press secretary, justifying our acts and judgments to others. Haidt shows, for example, how subjects relentlessly marshal arguments for the incest taboo, no matter how thoroughly an interrogator demolishes these arguments.
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sábado, 24 de março de 2012
O que está acontecendo nas profundidades dos mares?
In the deepest, darkest parts of the oceans are ecosystems with more diversity than a tropical rainforest. Taking us on a voyage into the ocean -- from the deepest trenches to the remains of Titanic -- marine biologist David Gallo explores the wonder and beauty of marine life. Find more TED-Ed videos on our new YouTube channel: youtube.com/TEDEd.
A pioneer in ocean exploration, David Gallo is an enthusiastic ambassador between the sea and those of us on dry land. Full bio »
sexta-feira, 23 de março de 2012
Escolha fácil
As ovelhas e burros vão votar em favor de Obama. As ovelhas e os burros são a maioria.
Como o mundo funciona
O moderno mundo é um mundo de burocracia. Entender a burocracia é a chave para entender o mundo moderno. Aprender como a burocracia funciona, nos da à chave para resistir e parar serem ovelhas. Leia como as burocracias mantém seu poder e lembra que o governo é a maior burocracia:
Rules of Bureaucracy Rule #1: Maintain the problem at all costs! The problem is the basis of power, perks, privileges, and security.
Rule #2: Use crisis and perceived crisis to increase your power and control.
Rule 2a. Force 11th-hour decisions, threaten the loss of options and opportunities, and limit the opposition's opportunity to review and critique.
Rule #3: If there are not enough crises, manufacture them, even from nature, where none exist.
Rule #4: Control the flow and release of information while feigning openness.
Rule 4a: Deny, delay, obfuscate, spin, and lie.
Rule #5: Maximize public-relations exposure by creating a cover story that appeals to the universal need to help people.
Rule #6: Create vested support groups by distributing concentrated benefits and/or entitlements to these special interests, while distributing the costs broadly to one's political opponents.
Rule #7: Demonize the truth tellers who have the temerity to say, "The emperor has no clothes."
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Veja a explosão de 2053 bombas nucleares
Japanese artist Isao Hashimoto has created a beautiful, undeniably scary time-lapse map of the 2053 nuclear explosions which have taken place between 1945 and 1998, beginning with the Manhattan Project's "Trinity" test near Los Alamos and concluding with Pakistan's nuclear tests in May of 1998. This leaves out North Korea's two alleged nuclear tests in this past decade (the legitimacy of both of which is not 100% clear).
Each nation gets a blip and a flashing dot on the map whenever they detonate a nuclear weapon, with a running tally kept on the top and bottom bars of the screen. Hashimoto, who began the project in 2003, says that he created it with the goal of showing"the fear and folly of nuclear weapons." It starts really slow — if you want to see real action, skip ahead to 1962 or so — but the buildup becomes overwhelming.
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http://www.ctbto.org/specials/1945-1998-by-isao-hashimoto/
Each nation gets a blip and a flashing dot on the map whenever they detonate a nuclear weapon, with a running tally kept on the top and bottom bars of the screen. Hashimoto, who began the project in 2003, says that he created it with the goal of showing"the fear and folly of nuclear weapons." It starts really slow — if you want to see real action, skip ahead to 1962 or so — but the buildup becomes overwhelming.
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http://www.ctbto.org/specials/1945-1998-by-isao-hashimoto/
Veja a explosão de 2053 bombas nucleares
Japanese artist Isao Hashimoto has created a beautiful, undeniably scary time-lapse map of the 2053 nuclear explosions which have taken place between 1945 and 1998, beginning with the Manhattan Project's "Trinity" test near Los Alamos and concluding with Pakistan's nuclear tests in May of 1998. This leaves out North Korea's two alleged nuclear tests in this past decade (the legitimacy of both of which is not 100% clear).
Each nation gets a blip and a flashing dot on the map whenever they detonate a nuclear weapon, with a running tally kept on the top and bottom bars of the screen. Hashimoto, who began the project in 2003, says that he created it with the goal of showing"the fear and folly of nuclear weapons." It starts really slow — if you want to see real action, skip ahead to 1962 or so — but the buildup becomes overwhelming.
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http://www.ctbto.org/specials/1945-1998-by-isao-hashimoto/
Uma linda documentação da iresponsabilidade, loucura e megalomania dos governos.
Each nation gets a blip and a flashing dot on the map whenever they detonate a nuclear weapon, with a running tally kept on the top and bottom bars of the screen. Hashimoto, who began the project in 2003, says that he created it with the goal of showing"the fear and folly of nuclear weapons." It starts really slow — if you want to see real action, skip ahead to 1962 or so — but the buildup becomes overwhelming.
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http://www.ctbto.org/specials/1945-1998-by-isao-hashimoto/
Uma linda documentação da iresponsabilidade, loucura e megalomania dos governos.
Premie britânico declara mais uma guerra
Cameron declara "guerra" contra excessos alcoólicos no Reino Unido
PUBLICIDADE
DA FRANCE PRESSE, EM LONDRES
O primeiro-ministro britânico, David Cameron, anunciou nesta sexta-feira uma série de medidas --incluindo um preço mínimo de 40 pences por unidade de álcool-- para lutar contra os excessos alcoólicos, que custam 2,7 bilhões de libras anuais à saúde pública.
Como era uma vez, mas não está mais
"The policy of the American government is to leave their citizens free, neither restraining nor aiding them in their pursuits." -- Thomas Jefferson
Como foi mas não é mais
"The policy of the American government is to leave their citizens free, neither restraining nor aiding them in their pursuits." -- Thomas Jefferson
Desenvolvimento sócio-econômico
Hayekian Insights on Economic Development
Video Palestra
Featuring William Easterly, Professor of Economics, New York University, with comments by Arvind Subramanian, Senior Fellow, Peterson Institute for International Economics. Moderator Ian Vásquez, Cato Institute. Recorded on Tuesday, March 18, 2008
Economic success-among individuals, firms, products and countries-is often unexpected and unpredicted. William Easterly will draw on insights from Nobel laureate Friedrich Hayek to explain why prediction is difficult, success is rare and failure is common; the advantages of decentralized decision making to discover what works best in the market and in public policy; and the need to rely on dispersed and local knowledge, rather than government planning, for poor countries to achieve growth. Arvind Subramanian will draw on his experience working at multilateral institutions to comment on the relevance of Hayek's insights to developing countries and the current foreign aid debate.
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Video Palestra
Featuring William Easterly, Professor of Economics, New York University, with comments by Arvind Subramanian, Senior Fellow, Peterson Institute for International Economics. Moderator Ian Vásquez, Cato Institute. Recorded on Tuesday, March 18, 2008
Economic success-among individuals, firms, products and countries-is often unexpected and unpredicted. William Easterly will draw on insights from Nobel laureate Friedrich Hayek to explain why prediction is difficult, success is rare and failure is common; the advantages of decentralized decision making to discover what works best in the market and in public policy; and the need to rely on dispersed and local knowledge, rather than government planning, for poor countries to achieve growth. Arvind Subramanian will draw on his experience working at multilateral institutions to comment on the relevance of Hayek's insights to developing countries and the current foreign aid debate.
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quinta-feira, 22 de março de 2012
Dívida estudantil americana passa 1 trilhão
Student Loan Debt Hits $1 Trillion, Deemed 'Too Big To Fail' By One Federal Agency
Propriedade intelectual - a debate continua
Advocates of free markets and property rights agree on many issues. However, intellectual property is one of the most contentious issues amongst property rights proponents.
We discuss this issue with Jeffrey Tucker. His new book It’s a Jetsons World helps introduce the reader to a relatively new understanding of nonscarce goods-and why intellectual property laws need to be abolished.
Jeffrey Tucker is a person who truly comes around once in a generation. His relentless optimism, biting criticism, and eloquent praise for the beauty of liberty and markets could turn even the most hardened statist into a liberty-loving advocate of free and voluntary interaction.
Few can expound on the beauty of markets and the free society better than Jeffrey Tucker.”
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Free Download It's Jetsons World
E hoje é ainda muito pior
Mencken in 1920:"The American of today, in fact, probably enjoys less personal liberty than any other man of Christendom, and even his political liberty is fast succumbing to the new dogma that certain theories of government are virtuous and lawful, and others abhorrent and felonious. Laws limiting the radius of his free activity multiply year by year: It is now practically impossible for him to exhibit anything describable as genuine individuality, either in action or in thought, without running afoul of some harsh and unintelligible penalty." http://lfb.org/today/
Regime de Casto não pode sobreviver a Internet
Rubio: Castro’s Cuba cannot survive a technological revolution
By Joshua Peterson"... When asked in a follow-up interview with Rob Bluey of The Heritage Foundation about how Cuba would make a technological leap “when its Communist leaders won’t allow its citizens to have even the most basic Internet access,” Rubio responded, “a totalitarian regime like Castro’s would not be able to survive a technological opening.”“Castro’s Cuba is never going to do that because they can’t survive it,” said Rubio. “The bottom line is that a totalitarian regime like theirs can’t survive a technological opening. If the people of Cuba have the ability to communicate with each other and the outside world and to receive information in real-time — not just about what’s happening on the island, but about the opportunities that people have all over the planet — the Castro government wouldn’t last but a few months, and they know that.”
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Caracteristicas de políticos e consequentemente de governos
Seven Signs of a Sociopath
Our politicians exhibit all of them. Doug Casey writes:
The US is already in a truly major depression and on the edge of financial chaos and a currency meltdown. The sociopaths in government will react by redoubling the pace toward a police state domestically and starting a major war abroad. To me, this is completely predictable. It’s what sociopaths do.
There are seven characteristics I can think of that define a sociopath, although I’m sure the list could be extended.
The fact that they’re chronic, extremely convincing and even enthusiastic liars, who often believe their own lies, means they aren’t easy to spot, because normal people naturally assume another person is telling the truth. They rarely have handlebar mustaches or chortle like Snidely Whiplash. Instead, they cultivate a social veneer or a mask of sanity that diverts suspicion.
- Sociopaths completely lack a conscience or any capacity for real regret about hurting people. Although they pretend the opposite.
- Sociopaths put their own desires and wants on a totally different level from those of other people. Their wants are incommensurate. They truly believe their ends justify their means. Although they pretend the opposite.
- Sociopaths consider themselves superior to everyone else, because they aren’t burdened by the emotions and ethics others have – they’re above all that. They’re arrogant. Although they pretend the opposite.
- Sociopaths never accept the slightest responsibility for anything that goes wrong, even though they’re responsible for almost everything that goes wrong. You’ll never hear a sincere apology from them.
- Sociopaths have a lopsided notion of property rights. What’s theirs is theirs, and what’s yours is theirs too. They therefore defend currency inflation and taxation as good things.
- Sociopaths usually pick the wrong target to attack. If they lose their wallet, they kick the dog. If 16 Saudis fly planes into buildings, they attack Afghanistan.
- Sociopaths traffic in disturbing news, they love to pass on destructive rumors and they’ll falsify information to damage others.
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Precisa-se reinventar o estado de bem-estar
Presidente do BCE avalia que o pior da crise já passou
"... Na entrevista, o presidente do BCE apresenta a Alemanha como modelo por ter conseguido reinventar o estado de bem-estar sem incorrer em dívidas desproporcionais."A Alemanha é um exemplo. O velho modelo do estado de bem-estar europeu morreu porque, com frequência, não funciona sem dívidas. Os alemães o reinventaram sem dívidas desproporcionais", explicou...
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O espaço - algo e nada no mesmo tempo?
Veja vídeo palestra com animações: The Fabric of the Cosmos: What Is Space?
Surprising clues indicate that space is very much something and not nothing.
Acclaimed physicist Brian Greene reveals a mind-boggling reality beneath the surface of our everyday world. Airing 11/2, 11/9, 11/16 and 11/23, at 9pm on PBS
A internet - a nova (e melhor) biblioteca de Alexandria
Stephen W. Carson explica:
"... We have it in our grasp to realize the original mission of the Library of Alexandria, "collecting all the world's knowledge", but with significant improvements on the original plan:
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"... We have it in our grasp to realize the original mission of the Library of Alexandria, "collecting all the world's knowledge", but with significant improvements on the original plan:
- Multiple, redundant, perfect copies.
- Copies in multiple physical locations, (to avoid the problem of, say, one central location being burned down and losing the whole collection).
- Storage of not only texts, but images, audio recordings (music, spoken word, etc.), and video.
- The ability to search all of this knowledge comprehensively yet instantly that the librarians of Alexandria could not even have imagined (but would have loved!)
- The ability to interconnect between all these texts and other media so that connections between them can be made explicit and easily navigable.
- Access to all this from almost anywhere in the world, rather than scholars having to travel to a single location in Egypt.
- Participation by all scholars (or anyone with something to share) from all over the world, rather than a relatively small group of scholars funded by a single government.
- And all of this based on a voluntary process of sharing. No breaking in and stealing originals from anyone. If anyone wants to keep something to themselves they simply refrain from sharing it and this great project will leave them in peace.
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Quando América era comunista
Communism Comes to America
As previously discussed, Hoover believes it best for the United States to stay out of the war. He believed it best for Hitler and Stalin to fight each other, while America stood as a shining example of freedom, freedom that would be harmed were the U.S. to enter the conflict.
In a nation-wide address on June 29, 1941, Hoover stated:
We know…Hitler’s hideous record of brutality, of aggression, and as a destroyer of democracies….Then as now, it seems the reasons used to justify entering a war are fluid. The only constant is the desire to enter war.
…now we find ourselves promising aid to Stalin and his militant Communist conspiracy against the whole democratic ideals of the world…it makes the whole argument of our joining the war to bring the four freedoms to mankind a gargantuan jest….
If we go further and join the war and we win, we have won for Stalin the grip of Communism on Russia and more opportunity for it to extend in the world….
To align American ideals alongside Stalin will be as great a violation of everything American as to align ourselves with Hitler.
As historian John Lewis Gaddis writes, “[T]he number of deaths resulting from Stalin’s policies before World War II…was between 17 and 22 million,” a thousand times the number of deaths attributed to Hitler as of 1939….Mais
quarta-feira, 21 de março de 2012
Livre vontade em disputo
Is Free Will an Illusion? Scientists, Philosophers Forced to Differ
By Natalie Wolchover | LiveScience.com Are you really in control, or is your every decision predetermined? Who's at the steering wheel: you, your genes, your upbringing, fate, karma, God?
A hot topic for several thousand years, the question of whether free will exists may never be settled to everyone's satisfaction. But in a series of new articles for the Chronicles of Higher Education, six academics from diverse fields offer fresh perspectives from the standpoints of modern neuroscience and philosophy. Ultimately, they voted 4-2 in favor of the position that free will is merely an illusion.The four scientists on the panel denied the existence of free will, arguing that human behavior is governed by the brain, which is itself controlled by each person's genetic blueprint built upon by his or her life experiences. Meanwhile, the two philosophers cast the dissenting votes, arguing that free will is perfectly compatible with the discoveries of neuroscience.
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Democracia é segundária, o primeiro é regra da lei
"Indeed, it was an idea that made the crucial difference between British and Iberian America - an idea about the way people should govern themselves. Some people make the mistake of calling that idea 'democracy' and imagining that any country can adopt it merely by holding elections. In reality, democracy was the capstone of an edifice that had as its foundations the rule of law - to be precise, the sanctity of individual freedom and the security of private property rights, ensured by representative, constitutional government." (Niall Ferguson, Civilization: The West and the Rest, p. 97)
Capitalismo autoritário
The Vampire Economy and the Market
1. Authoritarian Capitalism (Fascism) and Liberal Capitalism (the Free Market)
What is sometimes referred to as "authoritarian capitalism," or fascism, is in fact a variety of statism, specifically socialism, the system of political economy in which the prerogatives of ownership over the means of production and distribution are vested in the state. Under the fascist economic system, private capitalists are nominally regarded as the owners of the means of production, meaning that they hold property titles to these assets and are referred to as "owners" of these assets. However, this so-called ownership is merely illusory. The actual prerogatives of ownership are vested, not in the private capitalist, but in the state and its bureaucracy.[1] It is the state that tells the private capitalist how he must use "his" property, under the threat of confiscation or even imprisonment. In the words of economist Ludwig von Mises, it is "socialism in the outward guise of capitalism."[2]Mais
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Universidad de Santiago-Chile, 7-10 enero 2013
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The student loan debt market is now "too big to fail", says Rohit Chopra, the student loan ombudsman for the newly created Consumer Finance Protection Bureau.
Speaking on Wednesday to a conference hosted by the Consumer Bankers Association in Austin, Texas, Chopra highlighted the sobering news that total student loan debt in the United States now exceeds an eye-popping $1 trillion, a record high.
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