Luther insulta

Whoever tolerates and listens to you should know that they are listening to the devil himself, incarnate and abominable, as he speaks out of the mouth of a possessed person.

From Infiltrating and Clandestine Preachers, pg. 393 of Luther's Works, Vol. 40

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Insultos filosóficos

2. Friedrich Nietzsche on Immanuel Kant
“That most deformed concept-cripple of all time.” [via]
1. Arthur Schopenhauer on Georg Hegel
“Hegel, installed from above, by the powers that be, as the certified Great Philosopher, was a flat-headed, insipid, nauseating, illiterate charlatan who reached the pinnacle of audacity in scribbling together and dishing up the craziest mystifying nonsense.” [via]
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Democratismo

Venezuela

Venezuela vive como se fosse um "estado de exceção", diz ONU

Nações Unidas acusam o país de torturar e humilhar presos políticos e forçar mulheres presas a praticar sexo oral com seus captores

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A ONU acusou o governo da Venezuela de ter humilhado, ameaçado e torturado cerca de três mil manifestantes presos durante protestos realizados no primeiro semestre de 2014. A acusação foi feita nesta quinta-feira 6, em reunião do Comitê de Defesa dos Direitos Humanos das Nações Unidas, que afirma que o país latino-americano vive como se estivesse em um “estado de exceção”. Esta é a primeira vez em mais de uma década que a Venezuela participa do encontro, que acontece em Genebra, na Suíça, e vai até a sexta-feira 7.

De acordo com a ONU, que diz estar impedida de entrar no país, os presos foram obrigados a ficarem nus e foram ameaçados de estupro. “Temos informações de que, durante os distúrbios de fevereiro, mais de três mil pessoas foram detidas, desnudadas, ameaçadas de estupro e não foram autorizadas a ter acesso a um advogado”, afirmou o relator do comitê, o dinamarquês Jen Modvig, que diz haver diversas denúncias além das 183 violações aos direitos humanos e dos 166 casos de maus tratos registrados oficialmente. Entre as denúncias, estão as de que mulheres detidas foram “forçadas a manter sexo oral” em seus captores e liberadas dias depois.
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Quem são nossos lideres?

Macroeconomia depois o Crash

Some would argue that the financial crash revealed failings in the discipline of economics as well as in the financial system. The main post-war approaches to economics, based on neo-classical and new- Keynesian principles and modelling, failed to anticipate the crash or the depth of the slump that followed. In this monograph, Roger Koppl, drawing on ideas from the Austrian school and the work that has been done on policy uncertainty argues that the missing ingredient in many economic theories is a proper theory of "confidence". The author is not only able to make sense of Keynes' "animal spirits", but also demonstrates how "Big Players" - often, though not always, government agencies - can undermine confidence, reduce long-term investment, increase speculation and reduce economic growth over a long period of time. From crisis to confidence not only describes the process through which the economy must go through before a full recovery after the financial crash, it also describes the journey that must be travelled by the discipline of economics. As economics students and other commentators question post-war macro-economics, Roger Koppl provides some of the answers needed to understand the long slump after the financial crash. A theory of confidence is needed in any economic framework that is to explain one of the most important periods in modern economic history.
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A importância de dizer histórias fictivas

http://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2014/11/the-psychological-comforts-of-storytelling/381964/
Stories can also inform people’s emotional lives. Storytelling, especially in novels, allows people to peek into someone’s conscience to see how other people think. This can affirm our own beliefs and perceptions, but more often, it challenges them. Psychology researcher Dan Johnson recently published a study in Basic and Applied Social Psychology that found reading fiction significantly increased empathy towards others, especially people the readers initially perceived as “outsiders” (e.g. foreigners, people of a different race, skin color, or religion).

A corrupção de lei

Justiça no mundo moderno
http://www.lewrockwell.com/2014/11/bionic-mosquito/mr-justice-stalin/

Gravidade

You Know How This Experiment Ends, But You Should Watch It Anyway

Most of you know that any two objects dropped in a vacuum will fall at the same rate. Some of you have probably even seen it demonstrated in person. But you've never seen this classic experiment reproduced in the world's biggest vacuum chamber – and you really should.

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História soviética

Yuri Maltsev - The Soviet Story: Film & Personal Reflections - 

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Estudar online

Rápidos e gratuitos: os cursos MOOCs vão substituir os MBAs?

Ronald Alsop Da BBC Capital

Quando Luis Ochoa tentou dar um salto na sua carreira, deixando de ser analista de investimentos para virar estrategista corporativo, ele resolveu não fazer o óbvio neste mercado, que é obter um Master of Business Administration, ou MBA.

Em vez disso, ele fez alguns cursos gratuitos de estratégia e contabilidade financeira no site Coursera, um dos maiores provedores de Massive Open Online Courses (cursos online abertos em massa, ou "MOOCs" na sigla em inglês).
"Eu ganhei uma base com esses cursos que me ajudou na transição para virar estrategista corporativo", diz o nova-iorquino de 29 anos. "Agora não pretendo fazer um MBA porque já estou onde queria chegar."
Como ele, um número cada vez maior de pessoas está buscando MOOCs como forma de se promover na carreira - sem necessidade de investir o mesmo tempo e dinheiro exigido por um título universitário tradicional.
O desafio para quem opta por essa modalidade é convencer seus empregadores e o mercado de trabalho sobre o valor destes cursos online.
"Nós ainda recebemos perguntas de várias empresas sobre o quão bons são os MOOCs, mas estamos percebendo que cada vez mais as empresas estão considerando esta modalidade para habilitar seus funcionários", diz Sebastian Thrun, da Udacity, da Califórnia, que oferece esse tipo de curso.
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Primeira guerra mundial - uma vista contrafatual

11 Intriguing Ways World War I Could Have Turned Out Differently

George Dvorsky

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The First World War may have have featured static battlefields and attritional strategies, but that doesn't mean the course of events from 1914 to 1918 couldn't have unfolded differently. Here are 11 events that could have changed the outcome of the Great War.

Top image: A French solider is shot during the Battle of Verdun, 1916 (Alamy).

Listed in roughly chronological order.

1. No Russian Mobilization in 1914

Russian troops prepare for war. The Great War/BBC

Had it not been for the Russian mobilization of July 1914, the Great War might not have ever happened. By rushing to the defense of its Slavic ally, Serbia, Russia set German plans into motion. Earlier, Germany had issued a "blank cheque" to Austria-Hungary, promising to come to its aid should Russia interfere with its efforts to tame Serbia. But after relations between Russia and Germany soured, and as Russian troops scrambled along the Austrian border, Germany believed it had no choice to but to roll out its Schlieffen Plan — a strategy wherein France, an ally of Russia, was to be defeated prior to launching an all-out assault on Russia; the idea was to prevent a war on two fronts, which is precisely what ended up happening anyway.

Russia mobilized for several reasons. It was looking to re-assert itself after an embarrassing defeat to Japan in 1905. It was also the era of pan-Slavism, in which dreams of independent slavic states fueled aggressive foreign policies. But from a purely strategic perspective, there was no critical reason for Russia to come to Serbia's defense. The Tsar's actions turned a regional Balkan conflict into a global conflagration. But perhaps intentionally, it thwarted the plans of Austria-Hungary to expand its aging Empire into a tripartite state — the never-achieved Austro-Hungarian-Balkan League. 

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Decálogo de Bertrand Russell

Decálogo de Bertrand Russell:
1. Não tenhas certeza absoluta de nada.
2. Não consideres que valha a pena proceder escondendo evidências, pois as evidências inevitavelmente virão à luz.
3. Nunca tentes desencorajar o pensamento, pois com certeza tu terás sucesso....
4. Quando encontrares oposição, mesmo que seja de teu cônjuge ou de tuas crianças, esforça-te para superá-la pelo argumento, e não pela autoridade, pois uma vitória que dependente da autoridade é irreal e ilusória.
5. Não tenhas respeito pela autoridade dos outros, pois há sempre autoridades contrárias a serem achadas.
6. Não uses o poder para suprimir opiniões que consideres perniciosas, pois as opiniões irão suprimir-te.
7. Não tenhas medo de possuir opiniões excêntricas, pois todas as opiniões hoje aceitas foram um dia consideradas excêntricas.
8. Encontra mais prazer em desacordo inteligente do que em concordância passiva, pois, se valorizas a inteligência como deverias, o primeiro será um acordo mais profundo que a segunda.
9. Sê escrupulosamente verdadeiro, mesmo que a verdade seja inconveniente, pois será mais inconveniente se tentares escondê-la.
10. Não tenhas inveja daqueles que vivem num paraíso dos tolos, pois apenas um tolo o consideraria um paraíso.
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Superfoods

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A arte e estratégia do obscurantismo

Do What I Mean, Not What I Say

Ancient philosophers deliberately concealed the meaning of their writings to protect society from dangerous truths. A review of Arthur M. Melzer’s ‘Philosophy Between the Lines.’

A fresco from the Villa of the Mysteries, Pompeii. Getty Images

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James Ceaser

Good prose always strives to be clear and direct. Or so we all think now. Arthur Melzer’s remarkable book shines a floodlight on a topic that has been cloaked in obscurity: esoteric writing. Using such techniques as deliberate contradiction, parable and allusion, authors who write esoterically craft texts so that they operate on two levels. There is a surface message intended for the ordinary or inattentive reader and a deeper meaning, often diametrically opposed to the first, that is addressed to the discerning reader.
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História, histórias - o caso dos Estado Unidos

How Drunkards, Whores & 'The Immoral' Shaped the Nation (w/ Thaddeus Russell) 

Thaddeus Russell is the author of A Renegade History of the United States. He takes a brash, maybe even borderline blasphemous look at the American bourgeoisie and puritans of the past. How did weekends come to be, and how did the mafia, brothel madams, minorities, homosexuals, and others considered "deviant" by the ruling puritanical culture help shape the nation? And is it possible to criticize the suffrage movement and even Martin Luther King Jr.?! Cenk Uygur hashes it all out in this probing interview with Thaddeus Russell.
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Drogas e sociedade

Challenging Society's View on Drugs - Dr. Carl Hart 

Malcolm Fleschner (Executive Producer for The Point) interviews Dr. Carl Hart (Professor of Psychiatry and psychology at Columbia University) on his new book, "High Price." The book challenges what our perception of drugs, and whether it's actually appropriate to blame poverty and societal ills on addiction.

Are current drug policies failing? According to Dr. Hart's book, yes. He explains why with his landmark, yet controversial studies of race, poverty,, and drugs as well as the relationship between drugs and pleasure, choice, and motivation, both in the brain and in society. Hart relates his own story that started in a tough Miami neighborhood and resulted in a career as a neuroscientist and Columbia University's first tenured African American professor in the sciences.
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Veneno no cha

Stiftung Warentest sieht schwarzSchadstoffe in 21 von 27 Schwarztees gefunden!

Sie wirken krebserregend, erbgutverändernd, leberschädigend

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Combate de drogas no Brasil

Carl Hart: Brasil ignora desigualdade social no combate às drogas

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Livro

Ted Talk
Dr Carl Hart's talk at TEDMED2014.
Highlights:
1)The impact of drug hysteria on drug laws
2)Why Science is critical to creating drug policy
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Aquecimento global

Nasa anuncia que águas profundas dos oceanos pararam de esquentar

AFP – 17 horas atrásr

A temperatura média das águas frias dos oceanos parou de aumentar desde 2005, o que traz novos questionamentos aos cientistas sobre por que o aquecimento global parece ter diminuído nos últimos anos, apesar do aumento das emissões de gases causadores de efeito estufa.

Uma das principais hipóteses apresentadas até agora para explicar este paradoxo é que o calor acumulado pelos oceanos desceu a grandes profundidades.

Os cientistas da Nasa, do Laboratório de Propulsão a Jato (JPL) em Pasadena (Califórnia, oeste), analisaram a temperatura dos oceanos entre 2005 e 2013, com base em medições realizadas com satélites e diretamente em águas oceânicas, com 3.000 boias distribuídas por todo o mundo.

"Descobriram que sob os 1.995 metros praticamente não houve mudanças de temperatura durante este período", destacaram no trabalho publicado na revista britânica Nature.

Apesar disso, "o nível dos oceanos continuou subindo", principalmente devido ao degelo no Polo Norte e na Groenlândia, destacou Josh Willis, da missão JPL e co-autor da pesquisa.

No entanto, o especialista considera o fenômeno inexplicável não põe em dúvida a realidade do aquecimento global.

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Comer carne faz bem

Food For Thought: Meat-Based Diet Made Us Smarter

by Christopher Joyce
Our earliest ancestors ate their food raw — fruit, leaves, maybe some nuts. When they ventured down onto land, they added things like underground tubers, roots and berries.
It wasn't a very high-calorie diet, so to get the energy you needed, you had to eat a lot and have a big gut to digest it all. But having a big gut has its drawbacks.
"You can't have a large brain and big guts at the same time," explains Leslie Aiello, an anthropologist and director of the Wenner-Gren Foundation in New York City, which funds research on evolution. Digestion, she says, was the energy-hog of our primate ancestor's body. The brain was the poor stepsister who got the leftovers.

Until, that is, we discovered meat.
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Internet global

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Sala de aula

Universidade de Leipzig, Alemanha

English Alphabet

10 Reasons Behind The Quirks Of The English Alphabet

Elizabeth S. Anderson October 6, 2014

The English alphabet, along with every other Western alphabet, originated from the Roman (Latin) alphabet. The Roman alphabet itself originated from the Etruscan alphabet, which originated from the Greek alphabet. The Greek alphabet is a modified version of the Phoenician alphabet. The Greeks formed their alphabet by adding vowels to the existing vowel-less Phoenician alphabet. With that kind of a history, it’s no surprise that our modern English alphabet is filled with oddities.
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Socialismo e libealismo

               "Socialists and liberals agree in seeing the ultimate goal of economic policy as attainment of a state of society assuring the greatest happiness for the greatest number. Welfare for all, the greatest possible welfare for the greatest possible number – that is the goal of both liberalism and socialism, even though this may now and then be not only misunderstood but even disputed. Both reject all ascetic ideals that want to restrain people to frugality and preach renunciation and flight from life; both strive for social wealth. Only over the way of reaching this ultimate goal of economic policy do their view disagree ….”

Ludwig von Mises: Nation, Staat und Wirtschaft 1919

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Dormir

Your Ancestors Didn’t Sleep Like You – Are We Doing It Wrong?

October 2, 2014 by Arjun Walia. 85 Comments.

Evidence continues to emerge, both scientific and historical, suggesting that the way in which the majority of us currently sleep may not actually be good for us.

In 2001, historian Roger Ekirch of Virginia Tech published a paper that included over 15 years of research. It revealed an overwhelming amount of historical evidence that humans used to in fact sleep in two different chunks. (1)

In 2005, he published a book titled “At Day’s Close: Night in Times Past,” that included more than 500 references to a disjointed sleeping pattern. It included diaries, medical books, literature and more taken from various sources which include Homer’s Odyssey all the way to modern tribes in Nigeria and more.

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Sucesso

"The secret of having success in life is to get things done before desillusion sets in."
A. P. Mueller

Mentiras que se aprenda nas escolas e pelas mídias americanas

Brought Up To Believe

By Bionic Mosquito

September 1, 2014

All is for the best

Believe in what we’re told

Blind men in the market

Buying what we’re sold

I was brought up to believe…
…King George was a tyrant.
…Americans fought for independence.
…Americans won their independence.
…the founding fathers were selfless.
…Robert Morris was America’s financier.
…government exists to protect my life and property.
…the time during the Articles of Confederation was chaotic.
…a written constitution is a check on government expansion.
…the Constitution protects my rights.
…Thomas Jefferson favored a smaller central government.
…America was never about Empire.
…Lincoln saved the Union.
…Lincoln cared about the slaves.
…Lincoln was honest.
…the West was wild.
…Japan’s aggression in Asia was a shock to the US government.
…Germany started the Great War.
…Wilson made the world safe for democracy.
…democracy represents the best form of government.
…democracies are reluctant to go to war.
…laissez-faire capitalism caused the great depression.
…Hoover was a do-nothing president.
…Hitler started the war in Europe.
…Stalin was a victim of Hitler’s aggression.
…Japan’s attack on Pearl Harbor was a surprise.
…World War II ended the depression.
…World War II was the good war.
…World War II was fought by the greatest generation.
…the United States defeated Hitler….Germany was the only combatant to commit atrocities in Europe.
…the atomic bombs ended the war.
…the atomic bombs saved one million lives.
…the US government would stand against world government.
…the US military fights for my freedom.
…the US military fights for the freedom of other, less fortunate, people.
…the global presence of the US military is an unwanted burden.
…foreign wars are almost…romantic.
…JFK was shot by a lone nut.
…by saving and working hard, you will retire into the American dream.
…money and banking must be managed by the state.
…the United States is a nation of laws, not men.
…Reagan was a conservative.
…there is a meaningful difference between democrats and republicans.
…a third party would provide the solution.
…CATO is a friend of liberty.
…Milton Friedman was a free-market economist.
…central banking is not central planning.
…central banks are necessary to regulate markets.
…nineteen men could…well, you know.
…they hate us for our freedom.
…a police officer’s job is to protect and to serve.
…Palestinians are a threat to Israel.
Reprinted with permission from Bionic Mosquito.

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Fim do petrôleo?

Salt Water Powered Car Gets European Approval – Yes, It’s Real

Nick Bernabe

on 6 September, 2014 at 05:51

In a breakthrough that is bound to catch the attention of the oil industry and even electric car makers, a company has just gained approval for its ‘salt water’ powered car in Europe.
A car called the Quant e-Sportlimousine that was presented at the 2014 Geneva Motor Show is the first electric car powered by salt water and is now certified for use on European public roads.
The e-Sportlimousine, built by the German company Quant, runs on an electrolyte flow cell power system made by NanoFlowcell that generates a staggering 920 horsepower, goes 0-62 mph in 2.8 seconds, and propels the car to a top speed of 217.5 mph!
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Melhores lugar de sair à noite

As 10 melhores cidades do mundo para sair à noite 

InfoMoney – 2 horas 9 minutos atráse suas notas em cada quesito avaliado:

Posição	Cidade	Duração (zero-10)	Pessoas (zero-10)	Música (zero-10)	Experiência (zero-10)	Total
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10	Bangkok (Tailândia)	7	5	5	10	27
9	Buenos Aires (Argentina)	9	7	6	7	29
8	Las Vegas (Estados Unidos)	8	8	6	9	31
7	Montreal (Canadá)	8	8	8	8	32
6	Barcelona (Espanha)	9	8	8	7	32
5	Londres (Reino Unido)	9	6	10	7	32
4	São Paulo (Brasil)	9	9	7	8	33
3	Nova York (Estados Unidos)	7	10	9	8	34
2	Berlim (Alemanha)	10	6	10	9	35
1	Ibiza (Espanha)	10	9	9	9	37