Os brasileiros vistos de fora

Quais são 13 coisas no Brasil que os japoneses jamais acreditariam!?

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Educação no Brasil

O Que o Brasil Quer Ser Quando Crescer - e Outros Artigos Sobre Educação e Desenvolvimento Autor: Ioschpe, Gustavo Editora: Paralela Categoria: Ciências Humanas e Sociais / Pedagogia

Partindo de questões tão fundamentais quanto imperiosas, os artigos reunidos em O que o Brasil quer ser quando crescer? estabelecem um novo paradigma para a discussão sobre educação e desenvolvimento. Deixando de lado as discussões filosóficas e ideológicas que ainda dominam o debate nacional, Gustavo Ioschpe traça um vasto panorama sobre o sistema educacional brasileiro, sempre embasado no conhecimento formal e na literatura empírica sobre o tema. Em artigos curtos e instigantes, O que o Brasil quer ser quando crescer? desmistifica uma série de “verdades”, como por que aumentar o salário dos professores ou o volume de investimento em educação não levará a uma melhora da qualidade do ensino no país. No lugar de ideias gastas, o leitor encontrará aqui discussões e soluções factíveis, amparadas na rigorosa pesquisa da área. Nesta análise lúcida e contundente do sistema educacional brasileiro, O que o Brasil quer ser quando crescer? nos convida a repensar o debate sobre a questão mais importante para o desenvolvimento
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Novos medicamentos: alto preço - pouco remédio

Neue Arzneimittel kosten zwar viel, bringen aber selten Fortschritte. Das zeigt der Innovationsreport der Techniker Krankenkasse. Nicht einmal jedes zehnte 2010 neu zugelassene Medikament verbessert die Behandlung der Patienten.
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Soldados como eles são

What Soldiers Do: Sex and the American GI in World War II France

 

How do you convince men to charge across heavily mined beaches into deadly machine-gun fire? Do you appeal to their bonds with their fellow soldiers, their patriotism, their desire to end tyranny and mass murder? Certainly—but if you’re the US Army in 1944, you also try another tack: you dangle the lure of beautiful French women, waiting just on the other side of the wire, ready to reward their liberators in oh so many ways.

That’s not the picture of the Greatest Generation that we’ve been given, but it’s the one Mary Louise Roberts paints to devastating effect in What Soldiers Do. Drawing on an incredible range of sources, including news reports, propaganda and training materials, official planning documents, wartime diaries, and memoirs, Roberts tells the fascinating and troubling story of how the US military command systematically spread—and then exploited—the myth of French women as sexually experienced and available. The resulting chaos—ranging from flagrant public sex with prostitutes to outright rape and rampant venereal disease—horrified the war-weary and demoralized French population. The sexual predation, and the blithe response of the American military leadership, also caused serious friction between the two nations just as they were attempting to settle questions of long-term control over the liberated territories and the restoration of French sovereignty. 

While never denying the achievement of D-Day, or the bravery of the soldiers who took part, What Soldiers Do reminds us that history is always more useful—and more interesting—when it is most honest, and when it goes beyond the burnished beauty of nostalgia to grapple with the real lives and real mistakes of the people who lived it.

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História sem máscara

American WWII GIs were dangerous sex-crazed rapists who the French feared as much as the Germans, explosive book claims

• Book 'debunks myth that the GI were manly and always behaved well'
• By 1944 women in Normandy 'filed complaints about rapes by US soldiers'
• Debauchery, lawlessness and institutional racism are chronicled in book
• Penned by Mary Roberts, a history professor at the University of Wisconsin
• Veterans Affairs rep says there is 'no way' to reprimand the U.S. soldiers
• Comes just after Sexual Assault Prevention Month in the U.S., where the military is under fire for string of high-profile assault cases
• Japanese politician also just claimed that American soldiers used their women as 'sex slaves' during WWII 
•  Swapping stockings for kisses and teaching girls how to jive, American GIs were meant to be a welcome ray of sunshine in war-torn Europe.
  But a new book has revealed the dark side of Europe’s liberation after the Second World War.
  Professor Mary Louise Roberts, from the University of Wisconsin, said within months of D-Day ordinary French women came to fear their American ‘liberators’.
  
  Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2332670/American-WWII-GIs-dangerous-sex-crazed-rapists-French-feared-Germans-explosive-book-claims.html#ixzz2Uk872vkn
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A boa educação começa com o professor

País com a melhor educação do mundo, Finlândia aposta no professor

Professores possuem mestrado e têm liberdade para criar currículo.
Finlândia lidera rankings internacionais de qualidade de ensino.
O país com a melhor educação do mundo é a Finlândia. Por quatro anos consecutivos, o país do norte da Europa ficou entre os primeiros lugares no Programa Internacional de Avaliação de Alunos (Pisa), que mede a qualidade de ensino. O segredo deste sucesso, segundo Jaana Palojärvi, diretora do Ministério da Educação e Cultura da Finlândia, não tem nada a ver com métodos pedagógicos revolucionários, uso da tecnologia em sala de aula ou exames gigantescos como Enem ou Enade. Pelo contrário: a Finlândia dispensa as provas nacionais e aposta na valorização do professor e na liberdade para ele poder trabalhar.
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A terra vista de fora

Some Strange Things Are Happening To Astronauts Returning To Earth

Who would have thought traveling to outer space could be such a profound experience? OK, probably everybody, but these former astronauts really articulate it in a way that was just a little mind-blowing.
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Mitos da história

There is no period in history more misunderstood than the Middle Ages. Providence College Professor of English, Anthony Esolen, vividly demonstrates why the "Dark Ages" would be better described as the "Brilliant Ages."
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Patriotismo

Patriotism is a kind of religion; it is the egg from which wars are hatched. – Guy de Maupassant (1850-1892), French Author

Ranking das universidades brasileiras

Brasil tem 4 universidades entre 10 melhores da América Latina

Comunicado à imprensa: PR Newswire do Brasil – 

No novo QS University Rankings: Latin America, a Universidade de São Paulo se classifica em primeiro lugar pelo terceiro ano consecutivo. Brasil domina com 81 instituições entre as 300 melhores e quatro universidades entre as dez melhores. 44% das classificadas têm menos de 50 anos.

Brasil (81), México (50), Colômbia (42), Argentina (30), Chile (30), Peru (17), Equador (9), Venezuela (8), Cuba (5), Uruguai (4), Costa Rica (4), Paraguai (3), Panamá (5) Guatemala (3), República Dominicana (3) El Salvador (2), Porto Rico (2), Honduras (1).

Ranking de Universidades da QS de 2013: América Latina -- as 10 melhores:

Rank 2013	Rank 2012	Instituição	País
1	1	Universidade de São Paulo (USP)	BR
2	2	Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile	CL
3	3	Universidade Estadual de Campinas (Unicamp)	BR
4	6	Universidad de Los Andes Colombia	CO
5	4	Universidad de Chile	CL
6	5	Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM)	MX
7	7	Tecnológico de Monterrey (ITESM)	MX
8	8	Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro	BR
9	12	Universidad Nacional de Colombia	CO
10	13	Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais	BR

Fonte: © QS Quacquarelli Symonds http://www.topuniversities.com/

"Embora o Brasil domine em nível regional, no contexto global apenas 12 universidades brasileiras estão classificadas no QS World University Rankings. Entre os países do BRIC, o Brasil fica abaixo da China, com 23 universidades, e da Rússia, com 14, mas acima da Índia, com 11", diz o diretor de Administração da QS, Nunzio Quacquarelli.

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Enem

A poucas horas do fim do prazo, Enem tem quase 7 milhões de inscritos

Por Mariana Tokarnia, da Agência Brasil | Yahoo! Notícias – 

A poucas horas do fim do prazo de inscrição no Exame Nacional do Ensino Médio (Enem), às 23h59, o número de candidatos bateu recorde. Até as 18h07, eram 6.856.006 inscritos, de acordo com o Ministério da Educação (MEC). O número supera não apenas os candidatos confirmados em 2012 (que pagaram a taxa de inscrição ou isentos), um total de 5.971.290, mas também a quantidade de inscritos no ano passado, 6,495 milhões. A média de inscrições tem sido de aproximadamente 700 por minuto, número de acordo com as expectativas para o último dia.

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TV show da bolsa de familia

Prêmio Nobel defende alternativa ao uso do Bolsa Família

O professor de economia e Prêmio Nobel da Paz de 2006, Muhammad Yunus, propôs, nesta segunda-feira, 27, a criação de um reality show na televisão estrelado por pessoas que tentam criar negócios próprios para deixar de receber auxílio financeiro do programa Bolsa Família, por meio do qual o governo federal garante renda a pessoas em situação de pobreza.
"Por que não criar um programa de televisão que mostre cinco ou dez pessoas que recebem dinheiro do Bolsa Família tentando criar negócios sociais para deixar de receber a verba do governo? Mesmo que nem todos consigam, certamente empreendedores irão ver isso na televisão e poderão se interessar em investir nessas ideias", disse ele, após proferir palestra intitulada "Negócios Sociais: formação na academia e futuros empreendedores sociais" na sede da Escola Superior de Propaganda e Marketing (ESPM), em São Paulo.
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A base intelectual do imperio americano

Engineering Empire: An Introduction to the Intellectuals and Institutions of American Imperialism

Andrew Gavin Marshall I Geopolitics I Policy & Research I May 24th, 2013
"... The objective of this report is to provide an introduction to the institutional and social structure of American imperialism. The material is detailed, but should not be considered complete or even comprehensive; its purpose is to function as a resource or reference for those seeking to educate themselves about the modern imperial system. It's not an analysis of state policies or the effects of those policies, but rather, it is an examination of the institutions and individuals who advocate and implement imperial policies. What is revealed is a highly integrated and interconnected network of institutions and individuals - the foreign policy establishment - consisting of academics (so-called "experts" and "policy-oriented intellectuals") and prominent think tanks.
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Europa na perspectiva de Giorgio Agamben

Giorgio Agamben im Gespräch
"... In Europa liegt die Identität jeder Kultur immer schon an den Grenzen. Ein Deutscher wie Winckelmann oder Hölderlin kann griechischer sein als ein Grieche. Und ein Florentiner wie Dante kann sich genauso deutsch fühlen wie der schwäbische Kaiser Friedrich II. Genau darin besteht ja Europa: in dieser Einzigartigkeit, die immer wieder die nationalen und kulturellen Grenzen überschreitet. Das Ziel meiner Kritik war nicht Deutschland, sondern die Weise, in der die Europäische Union konstruiert wurde, nämlich auf ausschließlich ökonomischer Basis. So werden nicht nur unsere spirituellen und kulturellen Wurzeln ignoriert, sondern auch die politischen und rechtlichen. Wenn eine Kritik an Deutschland herauszuhören war, dann nur, weil Deutschland aus seiner dominierenden Position heraus und trotz seiner außergewöhnlichen philosophischen Tradition momentan unfähig erscheint, ein Europa zu denken, das nicht allein auf Euro und Wirtschaft beruht..."
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História da União Soviética

Esta é a VERDADEIRA história que os professores esquerdistas, não ensinaram para os jovens brasileiros, e os aprisionaram em verdadeiros GULAG´S MENTAIS ao enaltecerem este regime GENOCIDA e totalitário, chegando ao ponto de fazerem com que seus alunos neguem o HOLODOMOR, como ignorantes negam o HOLOCAUSTO...

Este documentário mostra como um populista levou o seu povo para a cova rasa, e com tamanha eficiência, pois em um ano mais de 7 MILHÕES de Ucranianos foram sumariamente dizimados, pelo próprio governo de stalin...

Não deixe de assistir e compartilhar este documentário, baixe-o para o seu computador pois a CENSURA PETISTA não permite que este vídeo fique por muito tempo no ar...
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Mais burros

Pesquisa indica que a humanidade ficou mais burra

Este post foi publicado em 25 de maio de 2013 por Chicco Sal.

Um provocativo estudo publicado recentemente na revista Intelligence sugere que, enquanto a tecnologia avança, a inteligência humana está em declínio. A pesquisa aponta que o quociente de inteligência (QI) dos ocidentais caiu 14 pontos desde o final do século 19. As informações são do Huffington Post.
Segundo o professor da Universidade de Amsterdam Jan te Nijenhuis, co-autor do estudo, as mulheres mais inteligentes tendem a ter menos filhos do que aquelas com menor inteligência, o que poderia ser um dos fatores para esse declínio.
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Gordura não faz mal (para os velhos)

The big fat truth

More and more studies show that being overweight does not always shorten life — but some public-health researchers would rather not talk about them. 

• Virginia Hughes 
  But many researchers accept Flegal's results and see them as just the latest report illustrating what is known as the obesity paradox. Being overweight increases a person's risk of diabetes, heart disease, cancer and many other chronic illnesses. But these studies suggest that for some people — particularly those who are middle-aged or older, or already sick — a bit of extra weight is not particularly harmful, and may even be helpful.
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Crianças? Não, obrigada

Crianças, uma vez um bem de investimento que traz renda, hoje é um bem de consumo de luxo.

Journal of Prices & Markets

The Journal of Prices & Markets, published by the Ludwig von Mises Institute of Canada, is a journal that seeks to improve the understanding of the role of markets in the economy. Submissions should seek to shed light on contemporary issues while being grounded in a praxeological reasoning. Prices & Markets welcomes submissions from a variety of fields such as politics, sociology, and psychology, where ever they can bring relevance to economic and financial questions.

Dicas para entender os brasileiros

What Brazilians say: Yes (Sim)
What foreigners hear: Yes
What Brazilians mean: Anything from yes through perhaps to no
What Brazilians say: Perhaps (Talvez)
What foreigners hear: Perhaps
What Brazilians mean: No
What Brazilians say: No (Não)
What foreigners hear (on the very rare occasion a Brazilian says it): No
What Brazilians mean: Absolutely never, not in a million years, this is the craziest thing I've ever been asked
What Brazilians say: I'm nearly there (Tô chegando)
What foreigners hear: He's nearly here
What Brazilians mean: I've set out
What Brazilians say: I'll be there in ten minutes (Vou chegar em dez minutinhos)
What foreigners hear: He'll be here soon
What Brazilians mean: Some time in the next half-hour I'll get up off the sofa and start looking for my car keys
What Brazilians say: I'll show up later (Vou aparecer mais tarde)
What foreigners hear: He'll be here later
What Brazilians mean: I won't be coming
What Brazilians say: Let's stay in touch, ok? (A gente se vê, vamos combinar, ta?)
What foreigners hear: He'd like to stay in touch (though, puzzlingly, we don't seem to have swapped contact details)
What Brazilians mean: No more than a Briton means by: "Nice weather, isn't it?"
What Brazilians say: I'm going to tell you something/ Let me tell you something/ It's the following/ Just look and you'll see (Vou te falar uma coisa/ Deixa te falar uma coisa/ É o seguinte/ Olha só pra você ver)
What foreigners hear (especially after many repetitions): He thinks I'm totally inattentive or perhaps mentally deficient
What Brazilians mean: Ahem (it's just a verbal throat-clear)
What Brazilians say:  A hug! A kiss!  (Um abraço! Um beijo!)
What foreigners hear: I've clearly made quite an impression—we've just met but he/she really likes me!
Waht Brazilians mean: Take care, cheers, bye
What Brazilians say: You speak Portuguese really, really well! (Você fala português super-bem!)
What foreigners hear: How great! My grammar and accent must be coming on a lot better than I thought
What Brazilians mean: How great! A foreigner is trying to learn Portuguese! Admittedly, the grammar and accent are so awful I can barely understand a word... but anyway! A foreigner is trying to learn Portuguese!
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Assim é a "vida" cubana

MEDICO CUBANO REVELA OS MAIORES SEGREDOS DE CUBA,
IMPERDÍVEL.
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Lista dos livros fundamentais de história

Syllabus para história de Walter E. Grinder
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1uWzI9OyAbmrNkW3dBk7fAcFRV7zccgbhJNJ-zFWw57o/edit?pli=1

Cubanas

O segredo dos olhos azuis

Blue-Eyed Humans Have A Single, Common Ancestor

Jan. 31, 2008 — New research shows that people with blue eyes have a single, common ancestor. A team at the University of Copenhagen have tracked down a genetic mutation which took place 6-10,000 years ago and is the cause of the eye colour of all blue-eyed humans alive on the planet today.

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Bolsa familia, bolsa gás e aluguel - algo mais? Sim!

Ser pai no Brasil

Como estudar

Maioria dos métodos de estudar para provas não funciona, diz estudo
O que funciona?
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Como tornar-se numa autoridade na era digital

Ser uma Autoridade na era digital é muito diferente da Autoridade que algumas pessoas tinham antes da Internet.

Com a Internet o conceito mudou. O caminho pra se chegar lá continua difícil, mas está mais curto.

Neste vídeo, eu explico como é possível estabelecer uma Autoridade online na era digital e como os vídeos podem ajudar a tornar esse processo mais rápido.

Também explico quais são os "elementos especiais" que contribuem para alguém tornar-se uma Autoridade naquilo que faz.

Até o próximo vídeo da série!
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A história da escola austríaca

The History of Austrian Economics with Israel Kirzner 

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O cripto anarquista manifesto

The Crypto Anarchist Manifesto

Timothy C. May< tcmay@netcom.com> A specter is haunting the modern world, the specter of crypto anarchy.
Computer technology is on the verge of providing the ability for individuals and groups to communicate and interact with each other in a totally anonymous manner. Two persons may exchange messages, conduct business, and negotiate electronic contracts without ever knowing the True Name, or legal identity, of the other. Interactions over networks will be untraceable, via extensive re- routing of encrypted packets and tamper-proof boxes which implement cryptographic protocols with nearly perfect assurance against any tampering. Reputations will be of central importance, far more important in dealings than even the credit ratings of today. These developments will alter completely the nature of government regulation, the ability to tax and control economic interactions, the ability to keep information secret, and will even alter the nature of trust and reputation.
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Pesquisa global sobre posição de países

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Incentivos funcionam

Bolsa-familia

Mulher explica o que fazer com o Bolsa Família - Jornal da Cidade - TV CIDADE - São Luís  http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=cuFH4E4SLmI

Caminhos errados - para rir

http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?v=10201500263733502&set=vb.211972675584440&type=2&theater

Obrigado por fumar

Gegen die Sitten-Diktatur: Danke, dass >>Sie rauchen!<<

".   Wir leben in furchtbar komplizierten Zeiten. Ich habe mich oft gefragt, warum Islamisten gegen vorehelichen Sex, leichte Bekleidung, Freibäder, Popmusik, Discos, Kino und Alkohol auf die Barrikaden gehen. Wie kann man sich so verbissen gegen die eigenen Bedürfnisse engagieren, gegen alles, was Spaß macht? Aber inzwischen ist es im Westen gar nicht viel anders. Bloß dass hier die immer zahlreicheren Puritaner nicht mehr mit Gott argumentieren, sondern mit Gesundheit und dem Schutz der anderen vor Belästigung; und dass immer neue Gefahren und Sünden heraufbeschworen werden: Fett, Zucker, Salz, Fahrrad- und Skifahren ohne Helm, Kinder, die man ohne Sicherungsseil einen Baum hochklettern lässt ...
Dem Anschein von Hedonismus in Werbung und Massenmedien zum Trotz leben wir in einer immer eingeschränkteren, lustfeindlicheren Welt. Das Schlimmste aber ist, dass wir es nicht bemerken (höchstens, wenn wir uns mal mit früher oder anderen Kulturen beschäftigen), sondern aus freien Stücken, die Repressionsschraube immer noch fester anziehen.
Tabak, Alkohol und andere Genussmittel erscheinen beinahe ausschließlich in einem problematischen, gesundheitsschädlichen oder psychopathologischen Kontext; Sexualität hat rasch den Ruch von Übergriff, Missbrauch oder Ausbeutung; Fleisch und Fisch zu essen gilt als mörderisch, selbstmörderisch oder beides zugleich; Fliegen und Autofahren sind unökologisch; wer zweimal zu schnell gefahren ist, wird als Raser, ja potenzieller Mörder gebrandmarkt; Tourismus zerstört fremde Kulturen; Partys, laute Musik und Kinder werden vor allem unter der Kategorie Lärmemission, Ruhestörung und Erregung öffentlichen Ärgernisses wahrgenommen; ist ein Kind in der Schule besonders lebhaft, wird es zwar nicht mehr mit der Rute gezüchtigt, aber in die psychologische Abklärung geschickt und mit Ritalin abgefüllt; wer im Garten oder auf dem Balkon grillt, ist eine Zumutung; wer in der Tram telefoniert, ein Egoist. Diese Mimosenmentalität führt dazu, dass wir, wie der slowenische Philosoph Slavoj Zizek sagt, Rahm heute vorzugsweise ohne Fett, Cola ohne Kalorien, Bier ohne Alkohol, Kaffee ohne Koffein und Sex ohne realen Körper serviert bekommen. Und wenn wir mal zu einer richtigen Zigarette mit Nikotin greifen, kommen wir nicht am Anblick von zerstörten Lungen und toten Föten vorbei.
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Templeton prize

A $100,000 prize recognizing exceptional think tank achievement:
To mark the tenth year of administering the Templeton Freedom Awards, Atlas is proud to announce the 2013 Templeton Freedom Award with its new prize structure. For the ...first time in its history and in future years, the award will be presented to one winner along with a $100,000 prize recognizing exceptional think tank achievement. Applications are now open for think tanks to nominate a specific project or larger body of work that, in the past two years, has achieved one or more of the following:
-Strategic impact (in areas of public policy, society, academia, media, or among students)
-Made an innovative contribution to the field of free enterprise education and policy research
-Laid the groundwork for future progress in improving countries’ scores in rankings of economic freedom

The deadline to apply for the 2013 Templeton Freedom Award is June 1. Submit applications at http://atlasnetwork.org/blog/2013/04/templeton-freedom-award-application/ For further reference you can download a copy of the application form at http://atlasnetwork.org/wp-content/uploads/downloads/2013/04/TFA-application_readonly.pdf However, ONLY online applications will be accepted.

Sal? Fique a vontade!

Limit Salt? More Nonsensical Advice

Last week, the Institute of Medicine reported that Americans should not limit their salt consumption. 
The American Heart Association (AHA) and the other Powers-That-Be (PTB) have been telling us for years to limit our salt intake to no more than 1,500mg/day—which is about one-half teaspoon of refined salt.  For over 40 years, the AHA and the PTB claimed that if we lower our salt intake we will lower our risk for heart disease, stroke, and hypertension.   However, there have never been any good studies showing any positive outcomes of lowering salt to 1,500mg/day—as long as there is normal kidney function.  
I have been using salt as a therapeutic agent for over 20 years.   During this time, I have checked every patient’s electrolyte (salt) levels.  I can assure you, the vast majority of patients need and require salt.  In fact, salt is the second major constituent in the body next to water.  We cannot live without adequate amounts of salt. I have been lecturing and writing about salt for over 10 years.  My book, Salt Your Way to Health was written to educate the reader about the importance of eating the right kind of salt.
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Liberdade da prensa no mundo

Austrian Economics Center Viena

Internship

Work as an intern / trainee at the AEC in Vienna, Austria — the city where it all began!

We cordially invite you to support our efforts and join us as an intern / trainee. Our goal is to bring the Austrian School back to Austria — and we need your help! The AEC is always looking for interns with a passion for liberty to assist in research, project coordination, and day-to-day activities.

 Already have a job but still want to contribute? The AEC also accepts well-researched and well-written articles and papers for publication or to feature on its website.

 Please send a cover letter and your CV to:  office@austriancenter.com

 Liberty will be won through the battle of ideas. Help us work for a freer future

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As leis da Internet

Internet-Debatte: Wie einzigartig ist die digitale Welt?

Eine Kolumne von Sascha Lobo

Im Netz gelten andere Regeln. Diese Annahme ist noch immer weit verbreitet, muss aber überdacht werden. Denn die digitale und nichtdigitale Welt verschmelzen rasant. Die entscheidende Frage wird sein: Welche zwingt der anderen ihre Gesetze auf?

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The next digital age

Ideias em educação - concurso de um milhão

Como garantir que todos os alunos brasileiros tenham um bom professor todos os dias na sala de aula?

INSCRIÇÕES PRORROGADAS ATÉ O DIA 24 DE MAIO
A Fundação Lemann e o Itaú BBA estão lançando novo edital de pesquisas para fomentar estudos de qualidade, que possam embasar políticas e projetos em educação. Os projetos submetidos devem responder ou trazer elementos que ajudem a responder a pergunta: “Como garantir que todos os alunos brasileiros tenham um bom professor todos os dias na sala de aula?“.
A Fundação Lemann e o Itaú BBA disponibilizarão o valor total de R$1 milhão para financiar de dois a cinco projetos, a depender das propostas recebidas, de acordo com os requisitos e critérios previstos do edital. Clique aqui para ler o regulamento completo do edital.
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A neta capitalista vermelha

Neta de Mao Tse-tung é rica e violou lei do filho único

A descoberta gerou críticas sobre a hipocrisia de um regime que segue reivindicando o ideal revolucionário do fundador da República Popular

Pequim - Uma neta do lendário líder comunista chinês Mao Tse-tung está entre as 250 pessoas mais ricas da China, o que gerou críticas sobre a hipocrisia de um regime que segue reivindicando o ideal revolucionário do fundador da República Popular.
Com um patrimônio estimado em 620 milhões de dólares, Kong Dongmei e seu marido, Chen Dongsheng, ocupam a 242º posição de uma lista de milionários estabelecida pela revista financeira chinesa New Fortune.
Kong, neta de Mao e de sua terceira esposa, He Zizhen, abriu em 2001 uma livraria em Pequim que exaltava a "cultura vermelha", a causa revolucionária proletária, que deu origem a China comunista em 1949.
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O inimigo é o próprio governo

Documentários relatam atrocidades de tiranos notórios do século 20

da Livraria da Folha

Estima-se que mais de 100 milhões de pessoas morreram nas guerras do século 20. No mesmo período, governantes assassinaram quatro vezes a própria população.
Na mesma época em que se discutia novos direitos e liberdades, como o voto feminino e as reivindicações de 1968, ditaduras torturavam, prendiam, censuravam e matavam indiscriminadamente.
"Ditadores do Século 20" tem lançamento previsto para 29 de maio e está em pré-venda na Livraria da Folha.
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Brasil no caminho da censura

Protestos nas redes sociais vão parar na Justiça

19 de maio de 2013 | 

ANNA CAROLINA PAPP - Agência Estado

Na quarta-feira, 15, o Tribunal de Justiça de São Paulo decidiu manter a proibição do engenheiro agrônomo Ricardo Fraga Oliveira, de 49 anos, de se manifestar nas redes sociais contra um empreendimento imobiliário na Vila Mariana, zona sul de São Paulo. Oliveira foi proibido de mencionar o assunto em suas páginas online e de circular no quarteirão da obra. Seu perfil no Facebook segue fora do ar. A determinação levanta, mais uma vez, a discussão sobre liberdade de expressão na internet no Brasil.

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Pronto para matar?

What percentage of people would obey if they were ordered to commit murder? The answer might surprise you.

A psicologia da autoridade

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=qO3R5JcbffM

Cuba libre

Hospital Mazzorra, Cuba: 26 assassinados

Escrito por Graça Salgueiro | 24 Março 2010
Notícias Faltantes - Comunismo

Quando alguém abrir a boca para falar da excelência da saúde e educação em Cuba, peça-lhe explicações sobre estes cadáveres mortos a míngua, de fome e de frio.

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Caracerísticas da "nova classe média"

http://www.sae.gov.br/novaclassemedia/?page_id=58#.UZY08XqcQLE.facebook

Princípio individual e social

''Once it has been perceived that the division of labour is the essence of society, nothing remains of the antithesis between individual and society. The contradiction between individual principle and social principle disappears.'' Ludwig Von Mises.

Vida na rua

Estudo no RJ mostra que maioria da população de rua não bebe nem usa drogas

Pesquisa constata ação equivocada de agentes da prefeitura, com abordagens violentas
Por Igor Carvalho
O Núcleo de Direitos Humanos da Defensoria Pública do Estado do Rio de Janeiro realizou um estudo para traçar um perfil das pessoas em situação de rua, na região metropolitana da capital. A pesquisa derrubou mitos e trouxe à tona outra realidade sobre o perfil dessa população. Somente 13% dos moradores de rua são analfabetos, 65% não bebem e 62% não usam drogas.
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Aprenda todo sobre os Estado de Bem-estar

The Welfare State

by Charles A. Burris

The history of the welfare state is the history of the state's savage war of aggrandizement and seizure of authority against civil society. Whether in Germany, in the United Kingdom, in Australia, in Canada, in Scandinavia, or in the United States, the coercive state systematically destroyed the "voluntary sector" of civil society and those intermediary institutions that protected the individual from the direct contact and control by the state [much as the Church did for nearly all of the previous two millennia]. Within the short space of two or three decades the protective sphere covered by workingmen's social and other fraternal duties had been stripped to nothing more than drinking associations, with all other matters taken over by the state apparatus. Henceforth, the workingman and much of the middle class reported directly to the bureaucracy of the state's intrusive regime. Everything they did was in some way or another regulated, regimented and overseen by the state. The dire effects of this calculated collectivism was malevolence not benevolence, aggression not altruism, genocide not generosity.

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El concurso se instituye para premiar las mejores investigaciones publicadas o inéditas sobre la filosofía de la libertad, en sus aspectos morales, económicos, políticos o jurídicos, y sobre el análisis económico del derecho, de la política o de la teoría de las decisiones públicas. Las categorías del concurso son: tratado o libro, ensayo, artículo de revista académica y artículos o editoriales de periódicos.
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Pschedelic Jimi

Karl Marx - uma figura do passado

The Real Karl Marx

John Gray

Karl Marx: A Nineteenth-Century Life
by Jonathan Sperber
Liveright, 648 pp., $35.00                                                  

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Karl Marx and his daughter Jenny, a left-wing journalist and her father’s secretary, in 1869. ‘The cross she is wearing,’ Jonathan Sperber writes, ‘was not a sign of religious affiliation but the symbol of the Polish uprising of 1863.’

In many ways, Jonathan Sperber suggests, Marx was “a backward-looking figure,” whose vision of the future was modeled on conditions quite different from any that prevail today:

The view of Marx as a contemporary whose ideas are shaping the modern world has run its course and it is time for a new understanding of him as a figure of a past historical epoch, one increasingly distant from our own: the age of the French Revolution, of Hegel’s philosophy, of the early years of English industrialization and the political economy stemming from it.

Sperber’s aim is to present Marx as he actually was—a nineteenth-century thinker engaged with the ideas and events of his time. If you see Marx in this way, many of the disputes that raged around his legacy in the past century will seem unprofitable, even irrelevant. Claiming that Marx was in some way “intellectually responsible” for twentieth-century communism will appear thoroughly misguided; but so will the defense of Marx as a radical democrat, since both views “project back onto the nineteenth century controversies of later times.”
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Felicidade e renda

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Definição de "política" por (Graucho) Marx

Congresso de Economia Austríaca

Miércoles, 22/05/2013, 16:00

VI Congreso de Economía Austríaca

El Congreso de Economía Austriaca se celebrará el 22 y 23 de mayo en el Centro Riojano de Madrid, en Calle Serrano nº 25. Ya puedes consultar el programa de las jornadas.

Centro Riojano de Madrid, Calle Serrano, nº 25.

¡Ya puedes consultar el programa del VI Congreso de Economía Austríaca!

El Congreso de Economía Austríaca es una cita anual de referencia donde estudiantes, profesionales y profesores debaten las más recientes aportaciones académicas en los ámbitos de la economía, la política, la sociología, la filosofía y la ética, en la tradición de la Escuela Austríaca de Economía o desde posiciones que la complementen y enriquezcan.
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Como melhor aprender linguas

What's the best way to teach languages?

How do students best pick up languages? Martin Williams talks to academics, teachers and multi-lingual speakers to find out about the science of learning a language

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Ser feliz é uma escolha

22 coisas que pessoas felizes fazem diferente

Posted on abr 11, 2013

Existem dois tipos de pessoas no mundo: aquelas que escolhem ser felizes e aquelas que optam por ser infelizes. Ao contrário da crença popular, a felicidade não vem de fama, fortuna, de outras pessoas ou bens materiais. Ela vem de dentro. A pessoa mais rica do mundo pode ser miseravelmente infeliz, enquanto uma pessoa sem-teto pode estar sorrindo e contente com a sua vida. As pessoas felizes são felizes porque se fazem felizes. Elas mantêm uma visão positiva da vida e permanecem em paz com elas mesmas.
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Revolução educacional

Harvard-for-Free Meets Resistance as U.S. Professors See Threat

By John Hechinger & Michael McDonald

Christensen, a Harvard business school professor, has predicted that in 15 years, half of all universities will be out of business because higher education, with its skyrocketing costs, is ripe for technological upheaval.
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Liberdade de expressão

O erro

Alemanha - país da imigração

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Mentes puras não buscam poder

"Power is not alluring to pure minds." -- Thomas Jefferson

Educação no Brasil

Albert O. Hirschman (1915-2012)

An Original Thinker of Our Time

Cass R. Sunstein

Worldly Philosopher: The Odyssey of Albert O. Hirschman
by Jeremy Adelman
Princeton University Press, 740 pp., $39.95

In seeking to prove Hamlet wrong, Hirschman was suggesting that doubt could be a source not of paralysis and death but of creativity and self-renewal. One of his last books, published when he was about eighty, is called A Propensity to Self-Subversion. In the title essay, Hirschman celebrates skepticism about his own theories and ideas, and he captures not only the insight but also the pleasure, even the joy, that can come from learning that one had it wrong.
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24 falácias lógicas

“Não cometerás nenhuma dessas 24 falácias lógicas”

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por Fábio Rodrigues

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O filósofo, matemático e cientista americano Charles Sanders Peirce fala que as lógicas são “ferramentas para o raciocínio correto”.
Não sou nenhum grande entendido sobre o assunto, mas acho lógica um assunto fascinante. O pouco que conheço e observo já acaba sempre sendo muito útil em conversas, diálogos, em qualquer ocasião que peça algum tipo de análise, construção e exposição de raciocínio ou argumentação.
Agora, quando falamos “construção e exposição de raciocínio ou argumentação“, isso pode ficar parecendo uma coisa meio séria, sisuda, de professor de filosofia ou discussões inflamadas entre ateus e crentes na internet. Mas a verdade é que fazemos isso o tempo todo. As lógicas são o próprio esqueleto que torna as linguagens (dos idiomas à matemática, passando, e muito, por tecnologia da informação) possíveis.
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Livros mentirosos

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Características da sociopatologia -

Profile of the Sociopath

This website summarizes some of the common features of descriptions of the behavior of sociopaths.

• Glibness and Superficial Charm
  
• Manipulative and Conning
  They never recognize the rights of others and see their self-serving behaviors as permissible. They appear to be charming, yet are covertly hostile and domineering, seeing their victim as merely an instrument to be used. They may dominate and humiliate their victims.
  
• Grandiose Sense of Self
  Feels entitled to certain things as "their right."
  
• Pathological Lying
  Has no problem lying coolly and easily and it is almost impossible for them to be truthful on a consistent basis. Can create, and get caught up in, a complex belief about their own powers and abilities. Extremely convincing and even able to pass lie detector tests.
  
• Lack of Remorse, Shame or Guilt
  A deep seated rage, which is split off and repressed, is at their core. Does not see others around them as people, but only as targets and opportunities. Instead of friends, they have victims and accomplices who end up as victims. The end always justifies the means and they let nothing stand in their way.
  
• Shallow Emotions
  When they show what seems to be warmth, joy, love and compassion it is more feigned than experienced and serves an ulterior motive. Outraged by insignificant matters, yet remaining unmoved and cold by what would upset a normal person. Since they are not genuine, neither are their promises.
  
• Incapacity for Love
  
• Need for Stimulation
  Living on the edge. Verbal outbursts and physical punishments are normal. Promiscuity and gambling are common.
  
• Callousness/Lack of Empathy
  Unable to empathize with the pain of their victims, having only contempt for others' feelings of distress and readily taking advantage of them.
  
• Poor Behavioral Controls/Impulsive Nature
  Rage and abuse, alternating with small expressions of love and approval produce an addictive cycle for abuser and abused, as well as creating hopelessness in the victim. Believe they are all-powerful, all-knowing, entitled to every wish, no sense of personal boundaries, no concern for their impact on others.
  
• Early Behavior Problems/Juvenile Delinquency
  Usually has a history of behavioral and academic difficulties, yet "gets by" by conning others. Problems in making and keeping friends; aberrant behaviors such as cruelty to people or animals, stealing, etc.
  
• Irresponsibility/Unreliability
  Not concerned about wrecking others' lives and dreams. Oblivious or indifferent to the devastation they cause. Does not accept blame themselves, but blames others, even for acts they obviously committed.
  
• Promiscuous Sexual Behavior/Infidelity
  Promiscuity, child sexual abuse, rape and sexual acting out of all sorts.
  
• Lack of Realistic Life Plan/Parasitic Lifestyle
  Tends to move around a lot or makes all encompassing promises for the future, poor work ethic but exploits others effectively.
  
• Criminal or Entrepreneurial Versatility
  Changes their image as needed to avoid prosecution. Changes life story readily. 

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A origem da civilização

Ludwig von Mises: "We owe the origin and development of human society and, consequently, of culture and civilization, to the fact that work performed under the division of labor is more productive than when performed in isolation." - Epistemological Problems of Economics

Políticos e fraldas

Economia

Holodomor

Documentário canadense sobre o fome de 10 milhões na Ucraina em 1932
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HjcO4tcobc0
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Famílias pequenas: progresso econômico

"Our industrial world was enabled and has become rich in large part because we’ve reduced the power and importance of extended families.
 

"In most farmer-era cultures extended families, or clans, were the main unit of social organization, for production, marriage, politics, war, law, and insurance. People trusted their clans, but not outsiders, and felt little obligation to treat outsiders fairly. Our industrial economy, in contrast, relies on our trusting and playing fair in new kinds of organizations: firms, cities, and nations, and on our changing our activities and locations to support them.

"The first places where clans were weak, like northern Europe, had bigger stronger firms, cities, and nations, and are richer today. Today people with stronger family cultures are happier and healthier, all else equal, but are less willing to move or intermarry, and are nepotistical in firms and politics. Family firms do well worldwide, but by having a single family dominate, and by being smaller, younger, and less innovative.

"Thus it seems that strong families tend to be good for people individually, but bad for the world as a whole. Family clans tend to bring personal benefits, but social harms, such as less sorting, specialization, agglomeration, innovation, trust, fairness, and rule of law."

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