quinta-feira, 3 de novembro de 2016
Guerra civil americana
Cultura humana
10 Recent Archaeological Finds That Rewrite History
Listverse
Every year, our knowledge of the past improves a little bit. 2016 has been no different. Scientists have made several discoveries and revelations which have helped us better understand (and, in some cases, drastically altered) our history. 10 Ancient Chinese Beer We’ve known for a while that the ancient Chinese enjoyed a drink due to evidence of fermented beverages derived from rice found at a 9,000-year-old site in the Henan Province. However, in 2016, we learned that the Chinese were also beer lovers. Archaeologists excavating the Shaanxi Province found beer-making equipment dating to 3400–2900 BC. This marks the first direct evidence of beer being made on-site in China. Residue found in the ...
Satanas
10 Unsolved Mysteries About Satan
Listverse
Satan has become one of the most popular figures in modern religion and pop culture, but his appearances in religious texts tend to be brief and somewhat confusing. As a result, there are a number of mysteries about the Devil that we won’t clear up any time soon. 10Is He Supposed To Be The Serpent In Eden? The serpent who tempts Eve into eating the forbidden fruit has often been interpreted as Satan. But the Bible never specifically says this; people just assume so because the serpent apparently plays a similar role to Satan. In fact, the original Genesis story seems to rule out the idea, referring to the serpent as “the cleverest of the beasts of the field.” Biblical scholars argue that the ...
Trabalho infantil
Por quê o estado cresce?
¿Por qué crece el estado? Gordon Tullock analiza y propone distintas teorías, y pueden ser todas… Posted on 3 noviembre, 2016 por Martin Krause Con los alumnos de Public Choice vimos a Gordon Tullock en un artículo donde se pregunta por qué crece el estado. Analiza distintas teorías: “En primer luga...
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quarta-feira, 2 de novembro de 2016
Verdade
"The further a society drifts from truth, the more it will hate those who speak it." George Orwell
O caminho da prosperidade
In this Economics Made Easy video, we talk about the history from where we started to where we are…
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Liberte-se
Livros de ler
21 books billionaire Warren Buffett thinks everyone should read
Business Insider
When Warren Buffett started his investing career, he would read 600, 750, or 1,000 pages a day. Even now, he still spends about 80% of his day reading. "Look, my job is essentially just corralling more and more and more facts and information, and occasionally seeing whether that leads to some action," he once said in an interview. "We don't read other people's opinions," he said. "We want to get the facts, and then think." To help you get into the mind of the billionaire investor, we've rounded up 18 of his book recommendations over 20 years of interviews and shareholder letters. ...
Recursos sem limite
"In the 1970s, Julian Simon was a little-known economist at the University of Illinois. He initially sided with Ehrlich in considering population growth an economic threat, but his research rapidly changed his mind. He challenged the environmental orthodoxy with a few articles, and then published an iconoclastic book that gained him considerable attention, The Ultimate Resource (1981). There was no resource limitation, Simon argued. Bumping against limits would increase the price of any resource in short supply, leading ingenious humans to find new supply sources or substitutes. Physical and human capital can partly substitute for natural resources. Man’s brain, ingenuity, and entrepreneurship are the ultimate resource; and this resource is infinite.
"Another way to see this is that a newborn individual is more than just another mouth to feed: he also brings his mind to help solve problems that a growing population can generate. The coming of age of a new individual means one more person with whom to exchange and, thus, the creation of new benefits from exchange."
O erro de Piketty
Leitura
44% da população brasileira não lê e 30% nunca comprou um livro, aponta pesquisa Retratos da Leitura
Pesquisa Retratos da Leitura no Brasil anuncia resultados de sua 4.ª edição em seminário em São Paulo; livro com
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Música
Guerra Mundial
Mercados financeiros
Ovos
Eggs Reduce Stroke Risk
Newsmaxterça-feira, 1 de novembro de 2016
Mapa do mundo
"To design a map of the world is no easy task. Because maps represent the spherical Earth in 2D form, they cannot help but be distorted, which is why Greenland and Antarctica usually look far more gigantic than they really are, while Africa appears vastly smaller than its true size. The AuthaGraph World Map tries to correct these issues, showing the world closer to how it actually is in all its spherical glory.
Created by Hajime Narukawa at Keio University's Graduate School of Media and Governance in Tokyo, the design just won the grand prize from Japan’s Good Design Award as Spoon & Tamago reports. It beat out over 1000 entries in a variety of categories. "
Created by Hajime Narukawa at Keio University's Graduate School of Media and Governance in Tokyo, the design just won the grand prize from Japan’s Good Design Award as Spoon & Tamago reports. It beat out over 1000 entries in a variety of categories. "
Ciência em crise
London 31 October: A new report published by the Global Warming Policy Foundation reveals the extent to which current policy-making is reliant on untrustworthy peer-reviewed research, much of which cannot be replicated and “may be simply untrue”.https://wattsupwiththat.com/2016/10/31/science-is-in-deep-trouble-new-paper-shows/
A devaluação da educação superior
Government programs (such as subsidies and student loans) designed to inflate both the supply and demand for higher education have driven a wedge between…
mises.org
Karl Marx
"Karl Marx as Religious Eschatologist", por Murray N. Rothbard.
The key to the intricate and massive system of thought created by Karl Marx is at bottom a simple one: Karl Marx was a communist. His devotion to communism was his crucial focus.
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A morte na perspectiva histórica-filosófica
"Estudar o morrer é como olhar para uma poça de água. Nela vemos o reflexo do tipo de gente que viemos a ser", diz Allan Kellehear, no fragmento de "Uma história social do morrer".
O Dia de Finados, celebrado na maior parte dos países ocidentais em 2 de novembro, tem como objetivo relembrar a memória dos mortos. Por ocasião da data, a Editora Unesp elenca alguns livros que tratam da morte, sob a perspectiva da sociologia e filosofia. Confira aqui: http://bit.ly/2fAkekf
Imagem: Cena do filme "O sétimo selo", de Ingmar Bergman (1956) na qual o cavaleiro Antonius Block e a Morte travam uma batalha de xadrez.
O Dia de Finados, celebrado na maior parte dos países ocidentais em 2 de novembro, tem como objetivo relembrar a memória dos mortos. Por ocasião da data, a Editora Unesp elenca alguns livros que tratam da morte, sob a perspectiva da sociologia e filosofia. Confira aqui: http://bit.ly/2fAkekf
Imagem: Cena do filme "O sétimo selo", de Ingmar Bergman (1956) na qual o cavaleiro Antonius Block e a Morte travam uma batalha de xadrez.
Crise financeira? Não para os vereadores do Rio
A origem da escravidão segundo os estudanes americanos
"Most college students think America invented slavery."
Over 11 year span, professor gives college students tests of basic history: "He began to observe a shift... in his students’ quiz responses in the early 2000s. Before that time, Pesta described his students as “often historically ignorant, but not politicized.” Since the early 2000s, Pesta has found that “many students come to college preprogrammed in certain ways.”
“They cannot tell you many historical facts or relate anything meaningful about historical biographies, but they are, however, stridently vocal about the corrupt nature of the Republic, about the wickedness of the founding fathers, and about the evils of free markets,” Pesta said. “Most alarmingly, they know nothing about the fraught history of Marxist ideology and communist governments over the last century, but often reductively define socialism as ‘fairness.’”
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O Estadão publica hoje mais uma das matérias que mostram, outra vez, o absurdo das remunerações milionárias dos juízes e desembargadores brasileiros. Desta…
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Lutas pelo poder na Idade Média
10 Daring Assassinations That Shocked Medieval Europe
Listverse
Medieval Europe was a violent place where ruthless kings ruled with iron fists. Assassinations were an easy way of removing a tyrant or political enemy, and they were often carried out with shocking brutality. Some of them were also fiendishly clever. 10Duke Conan II Of Brittany In 1065, William of Normandy was preparing to invade England. To secure his borders, he proposed alliances with the surrounding lords. However, Duke Conan II of Brittany hated the Normans because he believed they had poisoned his father. Conan refused to ally with William and strongly implied that he would attack Normandy as soon as the army left for England. This turned out to be a bit of a mistake since William quickly ...
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