quarta-feira, 30 de novembro de 2016
Uma outra perspectiva do "politicamente correto"
The long read: For 25 years, invoking this vague and ever-shifting nemesis has been a favourite tactic of the right – and Donald Trump’s victory is its greatest triumph
theguardian.com|Por Moira Weigel
terça-feira, 29 de novembro de 2016
Desigualidade
Joseph Stiglitz: "The rules of the game play a large role in determining market distribution— in preventing discrimination, in creating bargaining rights for workers, in curbing monopolies and the powers of CEOs to exploit firms’ other stakeholders and the financial sector to exploit the rest of society. These rules were largely rewritten during the past thirty years in ways which led to more inequality and poorer overall economic performance. Now they must be rewritten once again, to reduce inequality and strengthen the economy, for instance, by discouraging the short-termism that has become rampant in the financial and corporate sector."
Uma família política
Medicina cubana
Não existe medicina cubana de qualidade.
Michael Moore has made another piece of pure propaganda. This film, called Sicko, attacks the American health-care system. You will agree that there is a lot to attack. But Moore glorifies socialist systems, which have problems all their own. And perhaps his worst offense is to glorify Fidel Castro’...
nationalreview.com
Patriotismo americano
"How have national pride and American patriotism come to seem an endorsement of atrocities—from slavery to the slaughter of Native Americans, from the rape of ancient forests to the Vietnam War? Achieving Our Country traces the sources of this debilitating mentality of shame in the Left, as well as the harm it does to its proponents and to the country. At the center of this history is the conflict between the Old Left and the New that arose during the Vietnam War era. Richard...
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Racismo democrático
"Culling the Masses questions the widely held view that in the long run democracy and racism cannot coexist. David Scott FitzGerald and David Cook-Martín show that democracies were the first countries in the Americas to select immigrants by race, and undemocratic states the first to outlaw discrimination. Through analysis of legal records from twenty-two countries between 1790 and 2010, the authors present a history of the rise and fall of racial selection in the Western Hemi...
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segunda-feira, 28 de novembro de 2016
Os outros clássicos
Leading authors pick international classics that should be on every students’ bookshelves, but are often neglected by universities
theguardian.com|Por Monica Ali
Guerra de Canudos
O engano da revolucção cubana
A vida segreda de Fidel
Castro Bodyguard's Exposé: Luxury, Ladies, Secrecy in Starving Cuba
Newsmax Sun, Nov 27
Mitologia da Idade Média
The misleading myth of the 'Middle Ages'
The WeekCrescimento pessoal
Dweck said she identified several key differences between the two types of students.
1. Goals
Students with a fixed mindset had one goal in mind: "Look smart at all times and at all costs." That meant that they worked to avoid any task that might betray that they weren't as smart as they thought they were.
Students with a growth mindset, on the other hand, didn't care if their mistakes were revealed to their peers; they saw this as inevitable and nothing to be ashamed of, because their goal was to "learn at all times and at all costs."
2. Attitudes toward effort and failure.
Students with a fixed mindset viewed effort and failure as bad things, because the mere fact that someone worked hard or came up short demonstrated (to them) that the person didn't have innate ability. Growth mindset students on the other hand, believed that effort was what was required to unlock ability.
Dweck says she believes that the notion that effort is a bad thing "is one of the worst beliefs that anyone can have."
3. Boredom and difficulty.
Students who demonstrated a fixed mindset were far more likely to complain of being bored in school, Dweck found. The seem to get into a cycle in which they used boredom as a cover to suggest a reason why they wouldn't try things that they found difficult; in the process they actually became bored.
Growth mindset students on the other hand, looked at schoolwork as a series of challenges and puzzles to figure out. They were also less likely to complain that a teacher, or a course, or another external factor, was responsible if they had difficulty.
..... This is really what this research is all about--teaching kids to develop growth mindsets over fixed mindsets......
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1. Goals
Students with a fixed mindset had one goal in mind: "Look smart at all times and at all costs." That meant that they worked to avoid any task that might betray that they weren't as smart as they thought they were.
Students with a growth mindset, on the other hand, didn't care if their mistakes were revealed to their peers; they saw this as inevitable and nothing to be ashamed of, because their goal was to "learn at all times and at all costs."
2. Attitudes toward effort and failure.
Students with a fixed mindset viewed effort and failure as bad things, because the mere fact that someone worked hard or came up short demonstrated (to them) that the person didn't have innate ability. Growth mindset students on the other hand, believed that effort was what was required to unlock ability.
Dweck says she believes that the notion that effort is a bad thing "is one of the worst beliefs that anyone can have."
3. Boredom and difficulty.
Students who demonstrated a fixed mindset were far more likely to complain of being bored in school, Dweck found. The seem to get into a cycle in which they used boredom as a cover to suggest a reason why they wouldn't try things that they found difficult; in the process they actually became bored.
Growth mindset students on the other hand, looked at schoolwork as a series of challenges and puzzles to figure out. They were also less likely to complain that a teacher, or a course, or another external factor, was responsible if they had difficulty.
..... This is really what this research is all about--teaching kids to develop growth mindsets over fixed mindsets......
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As consequencias de amar os Neanderthals
Paying a heavy price for loving the Neanderthals
Cosmos Magazine
One of the biggest surprises about our evolution revealed over just the last decade is the extent to which our ancestors engaged in amorous congress with the evolutionary cousins. Bonking the Neanderthals, it seems, was a bit of a pastime for the distant relatives. It happened many times in Siberia, East Asia, the Middle East and Europe, and across a long period between 100,000 and 40,000 years ago. In reality, we have no idea of course exactly how many times it occurred, nor the circumstances in which it happened. Who instigated it, us or them? Was it consensual? Did they pair for life? Or was it a casual fling? Now, the consequences of interbreeding for us today are becoming all too clear from ...
domingo, 27 de novembro de 2016
Zizek sobre Castro
RT crosses live to Slavoj Žižek - a philosopher and international director at the Birkbeck Institute for the Humanities - as world is abuzz with Fidel Castro...
youtube.com
Viagem de tempo
Researchers claim time travel is possible
New York Post
O papel do estado na história
"Je mehr Wirtschaftsgeschichte man lernt, desto irreführender erscheint einem die Vorstellung, die Schaffung eines durchorganisierten Staates hätte den Höhepunkt der frühen Entwicklung der Kultur bedeutet. Die Rolle des Staates wird in historischen Darstellungen weit übertrieben, weil wir natürlich so viel mehr darüber wissen, was organisierte Staatstätigkeit bewirkt, als was durch die spontane Koordination individueller Anstrengungen erreicht wurde."Die verhängnisvolle Anmaßung: Die Irrtümer des Sozialismus
Friedrich A. von Hayek (1899 – 1992):
Alco na história
Top 10 Ancient Alcohols
Listverse
sábado, 26 de novembro de 2016
O novo jacobismo de América
"Ryszard Legutko lived and suffered under communism for decades—and he fought with the Polish ant-communist movement to abolish it. Having lived for two decades under a liberal democracy, however, he has discovered that these two political systems have a lot more in common than one might think. They both stem from the same historical roots in early modernity, and accept similar presuppositions about history, society, religion, politics, culture, and human nature.
"In The Dem...on in Democracy, Legutko explores the shared objectives between these two political systems, and explains how liberal democracy has over time lurched towards the same goals as communism, albeit without Soviet style brutalality.
"In The Dem...on in Democracy, Legutko explores the shared objectives between these two political systems, and explains how liberal democracy has over time lurched towards the same goals as communism, albeit without Soviet style brutalality.
"Both systems, says Legutko, reduce human nature to that of the common man, who is led to believe himself liberated from the obligations of the past. Both the communist man and the liberal democratic man refuse to admit that there exists anything of value outside the political systems to which they pledged their loyalty. And both systems refuse to undertake any critical examination of their ideological prejudices."
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Ryszard Legutko lived and suffered under communism for decades—and he fought with the Polish ant-communist movement to abolish it. Having lived for two decades under a liberal democracy, however, he has discovered that these two political systems have a lot more in common than one might thin...
amazon.com
O demônio da democracia
"Ryszard Legutko lived and suffered under communism for decades—and he fought with the Polish ant-communist movement to abolish it. Having lived for two decades under a liberal democracy, however, he has discovered that these two political systems have a lot more in common than one might think. They both stem from the same historical roots in early modernity, and accept similar presuppositions about history, society, religion, politics, culture, and human nature.
"In The Dem...on in Democracy, Legutko explores the shared objectives between these two political systems, and explains how liberal democracy has over time lurched towards the same goals as communism, albeit without Soviet style brutalality.
"In The Dem...on in Democracy, Legutko explores the shared objectives between these two political systems, and explains how liberal democracy has over time lurched towards the same goals as communism, albeit without Soviet style brutalality.
"Both systems, says Legutko, reduce human nature to that of the common man, who is led to believe himself liberated from the obligations of the past. Both the communist man and the liberal democratic man refuse to admit that there exists anything of value outside the political systems to which they pledged their loyalty. And both systems refuse to undertake any critical examination of their ideological prejudices."
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Ryszard Legutko lived and suffered under communism for decades—and he fought with the Polish ant-communist movement to abolish it. Having lived for two decades under a liberal democracy, however, he has discovered that these two political systems have a lot more in common than one might thin...
amazon.com
A verdadeira história atrás do dia de graças
Murray N. Rothbard (1926–1995) was the author of Man, Economy, and State, Conceived in Liberty, What Has Government Done to Our Money, For a New LibertyThe Case Against the Fed, and many other books and articlesThe Rothbard-Rockwell Report.
archive.lewrockwell.com
sexta-feira, 25 de novembro de 2016
Slavoj Zizek
"Slavoj Žižek is part philosopher, part international phenomenon. And if that seems impossible in this day and age, consider: Žižek, a Slovenian cultural theorist, has published more than 40 books in English, has starred in four films, and even has an academic journal (International Journal of Žižek Studies) dedicated to his work. Renowned for his gymnastic thinking and mastery of counterintuition, Žižek has been called "the most dangerous philosopher in the West" by the New ...
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