Escravidão

Escravos prosperavam comprando negros, mas eram esnobados pela elite

Africano chegou a figurar entre os dez homens mais ricos de Salvador

por Renato Grandelle

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Woodrow Wilson - O pior presidente dos Estados Unidos

America's Worst President Ever 

 Which brings us to Woodrow Wilson, whose failures of commission probably had the most dire consequences of any U.S. president. His great flaw was his sanctimonious nature, more stark and distilled than that of any other president, even John Quincy Adams (who was no piker in the sanctimony department). He thought he always knew best, because he thought he knew more than anybody else. Combine that with a powerful humanitarian sensibility, and you get a president who wants to change the world for the betterment of mankind. Watch out for such leaders.
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Pirâmide smithiana da prosperidade

Antony Mueller's "Roda da prosperidade"

Saber o nome não e conhecer

Creer e não creer

Quando números mentem

How Numbers Can Lie

".. So while mathiness conveys a certain authority, and the idea of “scientifically engineered” solutions sounds attractive, we should remember that science isn’t about certitude, but skepticism.  There is never a magic formula that can solve all our problems.  A leader’s job is to deal with uncertainty, not ignore it...
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Tecnologia para escrever melhor

Introducing iA Writer Pro

20 December 2013After four years and over 1 Million downloads of iA Writer, we’ve introduced something new. iA Writer Pro is a writing suite that boldly goes where no other writing app has gone before.
The reception has been phenomenal. iA Writer Pro is dominating the App Store Rankings around the globe. In order to cope with the amount of questions, we’ve written about how and why Writer Pro works...
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Estilo

The Sense of Style: The Thinking Person's Guide to Writing in the 21st Century 

by Steven Pinker 

A short and entertaining book on the modern art of writing well by New York Times bestselling author Steven Pinker

Why is so much writing so bad, and how can we make it better? Is the English language being corrupted by texting and social media? Do the kids today even care about good writing? Why should any of us care?

In The Sense of Style, the bestselling linguist and cognitive scientist Steven Pinker answers these questions and more. Rethinking the usage guide for the twenty-first century, Pinker doesn’t carp about the decline of language or recycle pet peeves from the rulebooks of a century ago. Instead, he applies insights from the sciences of language and mind to the challenge of crafting clear, coherent, and stylish prose.

In this short, cheerful, and eminently practical book, Pinker shows how writing depends on imagination, empathy, coherence, grammatical knowhow, and an ability to savor and reverse engineer the good prose of others. He replaces dogma about usage with reason and evidence, allowing writers and editors to apply the guidelines judiciously, rather than robotically, being mindful of what they are designed to accomplish.

Filled with examples of great and gruesome prose, Pinker shows us how the art of writing can be a form of pleasurable mastery and a fascinating intellectual topic in its own right.

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De 10 mil para 3 milhões

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Universidades americanas na crise

America’s universities are just plain broken

By Michael Barone

American universities, long thought the glory of the nation, are in more than a little trouble.
I’ve written before of their shameful practices — the racial quotas and preferences at selective schools (Harvard is being sued by Asian-American organizations), the kangaroo courts that try students accused of rape and sexual assault without legal representation or presumption of innocence and speech codes that make campuses the least rather than the most free venues in American society.
In following these policies, the burgeoning phalanxes of university and college administrators must systematically lie, insisting against all the evidence that they are racially nondiscriminatory, devoted to due process and upholders of free speech.
The resulting intellectual corruption would have been understood by George Orwell.
Alas, even the great strengths of our universities are threatening to become weaknesses. Sometimes you can get too much of a good thing.
American colleges, dating to Harvard’s founding in 1636, have been modeled on the residential colleges of Oxford and Cambridge. The idea is students live on or near campuses, where they can learn from and interact with inspired teachers.
American graduate universities, dating back to Johns Hopkins’ founding in 1876, have been built on the German professional model. Students are taught by scholars whose Ph.D. theses represent original scholarship, expanding the frontiers of knowledge and learning.
That model still works well in math and the hard sciences. In these disciplines it’s rightly claimed that American universities are, as The Economist recently put it in a cover story, “the gold standard” of the world. But not so much in some of the mushier social sciences and humanities.
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Deflação

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TEO3ZDyudgg

Deflação - bondosa e ruinosa

Apresentação de Antony Mueller sobre a deflação bondosa e ruinosa--

Competitividade global

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FIFA como sistema autocrático

Sepp Blatter and the selectorate theory: FIFA shows how autocrats survive

Nick Political science 2015-05-28

The police have finally come for several FIFA officials, and yet the organisation seems set to re-elect Sepp Blatter for a fifth term as President. It appears to go against all our expectations of how the system should work – democratic processes should remove corrupt leaders – but it fits in with our wider experience of how the world works, where autocratic rulers and their regimes do tend to stay in power much longer than their democratic counterparts.
So, why do corrupt, authoritarian and undemocratic regimes tend to survive longer than those that aren’t? That’s where the selectorate theory comes in. This is a theory devised by international relations scholar Bruce Bueno de Mesquita and others that seeks to explain this process, as well as some other features of the international system. I’m going to try and explain it briefly here, but for the full theory you should read either The Dictator’s Handbook or The Logic of Political Survival which give a much fuller explanation. (The Logic of Political Survival is the original academic text, The Dictator’s Handbook is written for a mass audience)
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Pobreza e inovação

Como repensar a pobreza na era da destruição criadora | Diogo Costa | TEDxIbmec 

Diogo Costa é professor de Ciência Política no Ibmec-MG, presidente do Instituto Ordem Livre e conselheiro do Estudantes Pela Liberdade. Trabalhou com pesquisa em políticas públicas para o Cato Institute e para a Atlas Economic Research Foundation em Washington DC. Seus artigos já apareceram em publicações diversas, como O Globo, Folha de S. Paulo e Estado de S. Paulo. Suas palestras já foram dadas em universidades de todo o Brasil, incluindo USP, UFRJ, UFMG, PUC-RJ e FGV-SP. Diogo é Bacharel em Direito pela Universidade Católica de Petrópolis e Mestre em Ciência Política pela Columbia University de Nova York.

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Vídeos educativos

educational video sites

RefSeek's guide to the 25 best online resources for finding free educational videos. With the exception of BrainPOP and Cosmeo, all listed sites offer their extensive video libraries for free and without registration.

Academic Earth

Thousands of video lectures from the world's top scholars.

academicearth.org

Big Think

Video interviews with 600+ thought leaders in a range of fields.

bigthink.com

Brightstorm

Short-form online video lessons by professional educators. Free math lessons.

brightstorm.com

CosmoLearning

Aggregator of free, online video lessons and documentaries.

cosmolearning.com

Coursera

Lectures taught by world-class professors and reinforced through interactive exercises.

coursera.org

EdX

Courses designed specifically for interactive study via the web.

edx.org

Futures Channel

High quality multimedia content ideal for use in the classroom.

thefutureschannel.com

Howcast

Professional and user-generated how-to videos.

www.howcast.com

Internet Archive

Collection of more than two-hundred thousand free historical videos, many academic.

archive.org

iTunes U

Free lectures, language lessons, audiobooks, and more accessible via Apple iTunes.

Apple iTunes - Apple iTunes Software

Khan Academy

Self-pased learning with extensive video library, interactive challenges, and assessments.

khanacademy.org

Learner.org

Professionally developed programming for K-12 classrooms.

learner.org

Math TV

Professional video lessons in mathematics. Covers basic math through calculus.

mathtv.com

MIT Open CourseWare

Lectures and course materials for students, teachers, and self-learners.

ocw.mit.edu  |  Also see: OpenCourseWare Finder

MIT Video

Guide to more than 11,000 interesting MIT videos and lectures.

video.mit.edu/

NeoK12

Aggregator of high-quality educational videos from around the Web.

www.neok12.com

ResearchChannel

3,500 videos from distinguished researchers and scholars.

youtube.com/user/ResearchChannel

PBS

Free videos from your favorite PBS programs, including NOVA and Frontline.

video.pbs.org

SchoolTube

Video sharing platform for schools featuring original content created by students.

www.schooltube.com

SchoolsWorld

Engaging, professional videos and practical resources for educator development.

www.schoolsworld.tv

SnagFilms

Library of free, full-length documentary films.

www.snagfilms.com

TeacherTube

Online aggregator of educational videos.

www.teachertube.com

TED

Fascinating presentations by the world's leading thinkers and doers.

www.ted.org

Videojug

Collection of videos from professors, professionals, coaches, teachers, and consultants.

www.videojug.com

WatchKnowLearn

Comprehensive online directory of educational videos aggregated from across the Web.

www.watchknowlearn.org

WonderHowTo

Search engine and directory of free how-to videos.

www.wonderhowto.com

Open Yale Courses

Free access to a selection of introductory Yale courses.

oyc.yale.edu

YouTube EDU

Free lectures from more than one hundred colleges and universities.

www.youtube.com/edu  |  Also see: Talks@Google

Additional sites that are not free but offer outstanding content:

BrainPOP

Provider of original, animated educational videos. Subscription required.

www.brainpop.com

Cosmeo

30,000 video segments from Discovery Education. Subscription required.

www.cosmeo.com  |  Also see: Discovery Education Streaming

general interest

Hulu

Joint venture between NBC Universal and News Corp. Features TV shows and movies.

www.hulu.com  |  Also see: PBS, National Geographic

Metacafe

Specializes in short-form original video content.

www.metacafe.com

Vimeo

Upload, share, and explore user-generated videos.

www.vimeo.com

YouTube

Hosts millions of user-generated and professional videos.

www.youtube.com

Confusões medicinais

Doctoring Data: How to sort out medical advice from medical nonsense Paperback – February 9, 2015

by Dr Malcolm Kendrick

Is coffee good for you? Will sausages kill you? Should you avoid sugar, fat, salt, or all three? Booked your smear test yet? Checked your balls? Considering bariatric surgery? Are you taking statins like a good boy or girl? ... Or should you just ignore this relentless bombardment of medical advice and remember that no one gets out of life alive. With the same brilliance and humour that bowled us over in "The Great Cholesterol Con", Dr Kendrick takes a scalpel to the world of medical research and dissects it for your inspection. He reveals the tricks that are played to make minute risk look enormous. How the drug trials are hyped, the data manipulated, the endless games that are played to scare us into doing what, in many cases, makes the most money. After reading this book you will know what to believe and what to ignore. You'll have a much greater understanding of the world of medical research. A world in crisis. “It is simply no longer possible to believe much of the clinical research that is published, or to rely on the judgment of trusted physicians or authoritative medical guidelines. I take no pleasure in this conclusion, which I reached slowly and reluctantly over my two decades as an editor of The New England Journal of Medicine.” Dr. Marcia Angell.

Os crimes da educação doutrinária

Crimes of the Educators: How Utopians Are Using Government Schools to Destroy America's Children Hardcover – April 14, 2015

by Samuel Blumenfeld (Author), Alex Newman

Utopian dictators like Stalin, Hitler, Pol Pot, and Mao are criminals – genocidal psychopaths who have killed more human beings in the last hundred years than any other ideologues in history. They don't limit their murder to individuals, but to entire nations.
In the United States another form of utopians, the "progressives," have tried to destroy traditional America by strategically dumbing down her people. America's future is being crippled on purpose in order to fundamentally transform the nation, its values, and its system of government. Laid out a century ago by progressive luminary John Dewey, the fruits of his schemes are plain to see today. Dewey got rid of the traditional intensive phonics method of instruction and imposed a "look-say," "sight," or "whole-word" method that forces children to read English as if it were Chinese. The method is widely used in today's public schools, which is a major reason there are so many failing public schools that cannot teach children the basics. This can only be considered a blatant form of child abuse.
American author and veteran educator Samuel Blumenfeld and journalist Alex Newman have taken on the public education establishment as never before and exposed it for the de facto criminal enterprise it is.
Crimes of the Educators reveals how the architects of America's public school disaster implemented a plan to socialize the United States by knowingly and willingly dumbing down the population, a mission closer to success than ever as the Obama administration works relentlessly to nationalize K-12 schooling with Common Core.
The whole-word method of teaching children to read – introduced by John Dewey and colleagues in the early twentieth century and which permeates Common Core – is a significant cause of dyslexia among students. Public education's war against religion, the "great American math disaster," promotion of death education, and the government's plan to lower standards for all so "no one is left behind" is destroying the logic, reasoning, and overall educational prowess of America's next generation.
According to the Program for International Student Assessment, which collects test results from 65 countries for its rankings.

• In reading, students in 19 other locales scored higher than U.S. students
• In science, 22 education systems scored above the U.S.
• In mathematics, 29 nations and other jurisdictions outperformed the United States

Journalist Henry Mencken said it best in 1924 when he wrote that the aim of public education is "to reduce as many individuals as possible to the same safe level, to breed and train a standardized citizenry, to put down dissent and originality."
It is time to hold the Department of Education accountable for the crimes of the educators.
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Velhas inovações

10 Recent Inventions That Aren’t As New As We All Thought

Elizabeth S. Anderson

Self-driving cars, selfie sticks, drones, touchscreen devices, e-cigarettes, jetpacks, and many other things seem like fairly modern inventions. Indeed, most of their “inventors” list them as newly invented and even go as far as seeking patents. But the fact is, many of these “inventions” have already been in existence for quite some time. They may have earlier lookalikes that ended up not going into production or that went into limited production due to one reason or another. Some also made it into full production but were recalled due to poor sales.

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Desigualdade de renda

Economists have figured out who’s really to blame for exploding income inequality 

By Matt O'Brien

Corporate greed isn't good, but it might not be as bad for inequality as we thought—or at least not in the way we thought.
Now it seems pretty obvious that inequality must have something to do with executive pay. After all, big-company CEOs only made 30 times as much as the average worker in 1978, but make 295 times as much today. The simple story is that corporate bigwigs have doled out cushy jobs on their boards to buddies who have rubber-stamped whatever pay packages they ask for, so that they're all but guaranteed to walk away with millions whether or not they're actually, you know, good at their jobs. Simple, but not quite right. That's because new research shows that, as Slate's Jordan Weissmann puts it, it's not super-managers, but rather super-managers and everybody else at super-companies that are behind the growing income gap.
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Capitalismo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5j2p6pxfqUI&feature=youtu.be

Capitalismo

Primeiro encontro do grupo "EconoEasy" da UFS com Antony Mueller discursando sobre "capitalismo". Veja o programa completo no canal "Econoeasy".

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A causa da miséria

Life at the Bottom: The Worldview That Makes the Underclass Paperback – 

by Theodore Dalrymple

Here is a searing account-probably the best yet published-of life in the underclass and why it persists as it does. Theodore Dalrymple, a British psychiatrist who treats the poor in a slum hospital and a prison in England, has seemingly seen it all. Yet in listening to and observing his patients, he is continually astonished by the latest twist of depravity that exceeds even his own considerable experience. Dalrymple's key insight in Life at the Bottom is that long-term poverty is caused not by economics but by a dysfunctional set of values, one that is continually reinforced by an elite culture searching for victims. This culture persuades those at the bottom that they have no responsibility for their actions and are not the molders of their own lives. Drawn from the pages of the cutting-edge political and cultural quarterly City Journal, Dalrymple's book draws upon scores of eye-opening, true-life vignettes that are by turns hilariously funny, chillingly horrifying, and all too revealing-sometimes all at once. And Dalrymple writes in prose that transcends journalism and achieves the quality of literature.
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