So-called global-warming alarmists are in a frenzy after the latest climate data confirmed the Earth actually appears to be entering a potential cooling trend, sea-ice cover in Antarctica is growing to record levels, tornadoes and hurricanes are at record lows, and more. According to experts, the most recent revelations continue to make a mockery of alarmist claims — debunking United Nations theories about human-caused global warming and the wildly inaccurate supposed “climate models” used to forecast doom and gloom by forces seeking carbon taxes and more centralized government.
Proponents of what is known as “anthropogenic global warming” theories, which claim that human activity is to blame for alleged warming, have long warned that increasing levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere would lead to “catastrophic” warming. The problem is that even based on data gathered by the planet’s premier climate alarmists — the U.K. Met Office, for example, or various U.S. agencies — shows that global warming stopped more than a decade and a half ago, as The New American reported last year.
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sexta-feira, 30 de agosto de 2013
Ótimismo é pessimo
"Os únicos interessados em mudar o mundo são os pessimistas, porque os otimistas estão encantados com o que há. " (SARAMAGO, José)
A fabricação da história
Gary North explica com o exemplo das guerras americanas
http://www.lewrockwell.com/2013/08/no_author/war-revisionism-2/
http://www.lewrockwell.com/2013/08/no_author/war-revisionism-2/
Estados Unidos como eles são
The Most Surprising Things About America, According To An Indian International Student
http://www.businessinsider.com/the-weirdest-things-about-america-2013-8
quinta-feira, 29 de agosto de 2013
Cuba como ela é
Una mirada a Cuba, a su realidad más allá de sus atractivos turísticos. Un documental que nos lleva a reflexionar sobre los logros que se pregonan del sistema socialista y lo que verdaderamente vive el pueblo cubano.
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Liberallismo e democracia
“Only within the framework of Liberalism does democracy fulfill a social function. Democracy without Liberalism is a hollow form.” - Socialism, Ludwig von Mises
quarta-feira, 28 de agosto de 2013
Mercados financerios criam confiança
Felicidade não se compra, mas confiança, sim, diz estudo
Para os pesquisadores, a criação de um sistema financeiro foi crucial para tornar possível a vida em sociedade
Um estudo feito por economistas de universidades dos Estados Unidos e da Itália concluiu que o dinheiro pode ter sido crucial para que os humanos consigam viver em grandes grupos. De acordo com os pesquisadores, o dinheiro pode ser usado para 'comprar' e 'vender' cooperação, servindo de lastro para que desconhecidos estabeleçam relações de confiança.
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Crackpot realism
On Crackpot Realism: An Homage to C. Wright Mills
Mills explained, these serious people are fools. They seem to know what’s going on, and how to right what’s wrong with the world, only if one accepts their own view of how the world works. So “practical” are these serious people, however, that they understand nothing beyond their noses and outside the circle of their own constricted understanding and experience. Strange to say, the power elite does not get out much—remember the first President Bush’s amazement when he, a former Director of Central Intelligence, visited a supermarket and encountered for the first time the mind-boggling technology of a bar-code reader at the checkout counter. Especially when these movers and shakers deal with matters of war and peace, they continue to make the same sorts of disastrous decisions over and over, constantly squandering opportunities to maintain the peace, almost invariably painting themselves into corners of their own making, and all too often deciding that the only option that makes sense in their predicament is to bomb their way out.
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Mills explained, these serious people are fools. They seem to know what’s going on, and how to right what’s wrong with the world, only if one accepts their own view of how the world works. So “practical” are these serious people, however, that they understand nothing beyond their noses and outside the circle of their own constricted understanding and experience. Strange to say, the power elite does not get out much—remember the first President Bush’s amazement when he, a former Director of Central Intelligence, visited a supermarket and encountered for the first time the mind-boggling technology of a bar-code reader at the checkout counter. Especially when these movers and shakers deal with matters of war and peace, they continue to make the same sorts of disastrous decisions over and over, constantly squandering opportunities to maintain the peace, almost invariably painting themselves into corners of their own making, and all too often deciding that the only option that makes sense in their predicament is to bomb their way out.
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Destruição criativa
Creative Destruction—The Best Game in Town
By Robert Higgs • Wednesday August 28, 2013
In his justly famous 1942 book Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy, Joseph A. Schumpeter described the dynamics of a market economy as a process of “creative destruction.” In his view, innovation—“the new consumers’ goods, the new methods of production or transportation, the new markets, the new forms of industrial organization that capitalist enterprise creates”—drives this process. Its most important result is that for the first time in history, the mass of the population in developed countries enjoys a standard of living that even the aristocrats of past ages could scarcely have imagined, much less have actually had.
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Mais uma tragédia argentina
Governo argentino quer mais Marx eis menos neoliberalismo em faculdades de economia
Ministério da Economia quer mais sintonia com 'modelo de acumulação com inclusão social' em escolas superiores.
O ministro da Economia da Argentina, Amado Boudou, e seu vice, Roberto Feletti, defendem que as faculdades federais de economia do país modifiquem a atual grade escolar para dar "mais espaço" para as teorias do alemão Karl Marx, do inglês John Keynes e do argentino Raul Prebisch (fundador da Cepal), segundo confirmou à BBC Brasil o subsecretário de Coordenação Econômica do Ministério da Economia, Alejandro Robba."As faculdades argentinas hoje apresentam grades mais ortodoxas e nós apoiamos que elas sejam mais heterodoxas", disse.
"Além de Karl Marx, de Keynes e de Prebisch, o ministro apoia a maior presença de textos do professor (brasileiro) Franklin Serrano e do (polaco Michal) Kalecki, entre outros", disse.
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Finalmente - a máquina de mentiras no calote
Steven Spielberg Predicts 'Implosion' of Film Industry
http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/steven-spielberg-predicts-implosion-film-567604
http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/steven-spielberg-predicts-implosion-film-567604
Mazda em frente por causa da inovação
FAST PLANT IS BOOST FOR JAPAN AUTO ALSO-RAN MAZDA
HOFU, Japan (AP) — Mazda, the longtime also-ran of Japanese automakers, says it came up with innovations in nearly every step of auto manufacturing for a super-efficient assembly line that rolls off vehicles at a stunning rate of one every 54 seconds...
Mazda officials said it will introduce all the innovations it came up with for the Hofu plant they call "the mother plant" at its new plant in Mexico, set to go into production next year.
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Mais uma vergonha para a universidade brasileira
Nature | News
Brazilian citation scheme outed
Thomson Reuters suspends journals from its rankings for ‘citation stacking’.
Mauricio Rocha-e-Silva thought that he had spotted an easy way to raise the profiles of Brazilian journals. From 2009, he and several other editors published articles containing hundreds of references to papers in each others’ journals — in order, he says, to elevate the journals’ impact factors.
Because each article avoided citing papers published by its own journal, the agreement flew under the radar of analyses that spot extremes in self-citation — until 19 June, when the pattern was discovered. Thomson Reuters, the firm that calculates and publishes the impact factor, revealed that it had designed a program to spot concentrated bursts of citations from one journal to another, a practice that it has dubbed ‘citation stacking’. Four Brazilian journals were among 14 to have their impact factors suspended for a year for such stacking. And in July, Rocha-e-Silva was fired from his position as editor of one of them, the journal Clinics, based in São Paulo.
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Guerras começam com mentiras
To Make War, Presidents Lie
When American presidents prepare for foreign wars, they lie. Surveying our history, we see a clear pattern. Since the end of the nineteenth century, if not earlier, presidents have misled the public about their motives and their intentions in going to war. The enormous losses of life, property, and liberty that Americans have sustained in wars have occurred in large part because of the public's unwarranted trust in what their leaders told them before leading them into war.
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Mesmo nos Estados Unidos o capitalismo já acabou
A recent news report outlined the rather staggering growth in federal regulations over the years. RegData, a tool developed by myself and colleague Omar Al-Ubaydli for the Mercatus Center, documents how many regulatory restrictions have been put in place by the federal government.
While the effectiveness of different rules can vary, this regulatory accumulation is hurting the U.S. economy. A study in the June issue of the "Journal of Economic Growth" – authored by John Dawson of Appalachian State University and John Seater of North Carolina State University – estimates that federal regulations have reduced economic growth by about 2 percent per year between 1949 and 2005. They find that if federal regulations were still at levels seen in the year 1949, current GDP would be $38.8 trillion higher. While that number seems extraordinarily high, a number of other studies have similarly concluded that regulatory accumulation slows down economic growth.
A nova educação
ITA é ‘celeiro’ de empreendedores em projetos educacionais
Uma geração de alunos que saem da universidade compartilha conhecimento aliando responsabilidade social a negócios
Bárbara Ferreira Santos
Uma nova safra de empreendedores em educação vem crescendo rapidamente no
Brasil. Eles desenvolvem atividades de alto impacto social, mas o que fazem não
é voluntariado. Aprenderam a lucrar com a educação e criaram empresas
comercialmente competitivas. Ao mesmo tempo, estão democratizando o conhecimento
em todo o País e têm alcançado bons resultados.
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terça-feira, 27 de agosto de 2013
O museu da palavras
18 obsolete words, which never should have gone out of style
Just like facts and flies, English words have life-spans. Some are thousands of years old, from before English officially existed, others change, or are replaced or get ditched entirely.
Here are 18 uncommon or obsolete words that we think may have died early. We found them in two places: a book called “The Word Museum: The Most Remarkable English Words Ever Forgotten” by Jeffrey Kacirk, and on a blog called Obsolete Word of The Day that’s been out of service since 2010. Both are fantastic— you should check them out.
Snoutfair: A person with a handsome countenance — “The Word Museum: The Most Remarkable English Words Ever Forgotten” by Jeffrey Kacirk
Pussyvan: A flurry, temper — “The Word Museum: The Most Remarkable English Words Ever Forgotten” by Jeffrey Kacirk
Wonder-wench: A sweetheart — “The Word Museum: The Most Remarkable English Words Ever Forgotten” by Jeffrey Kacirk
Lunting: Walking while smoking a pipe — John Mactaggart’s “Scottish Gallovidian Encyclopedia,” 1824
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Here are 18 uncommon or obsolete words that we think may have died early. We found them in two places: a book called “The Word Museum: The Most Remarkable English Words Ever Forgotten” by Jeffrey Kacirk, and on a blog called Obsolete Word of The Day that’s been out of service since 2010. Both are fantastic— you should check them out.
Snoutfair: A person with a handsome countenance — “The Word Museum: The Most Remarkable English Words Ever Forgotten” by Jeffrey Kacirk
Pussyvan: A flurry, temper — “The Word Museum: The Most Remarkable English Words Ever Forgotten” by Jeffrey Kacirk
Wonder-wench: A sweetheart — “The Word Museum: The Most Remarkable English Words Ever Forgotten” by Jeffrey Kacirk
Lunting: Walking while smoking a pipe — John Mactaggart’s “Scottish Gallovidian Encyclopedia,” 1824
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Como fazer que seu negócio dá certo
BOMBA! Você sabia que a sociedade defeca de forma errada?
24/08/2013, POR GUILHERME BUFONI ÀS 12:18:00
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15 coisas de abandonar para ser feliz
15 coisas que você precisa abandonar para ser feliz
Essa lista é uma tradução, o texto original e em inglês é do World Observer Online.
1. Desista da sua necessidade de estar sempre certo
Há tantos de nós que não podem suportar a ideia de estarem errados – querem ter sempre razão – mesmo correndo o risco de acabar com grandes relacionamentos ou causar estresse e dor, para nós e para os outros. E não vale a pena, mesmo. Sempre que você sentir essa necessidade “urgente” de começar uma briga sobre quem está certo e quem está errado, pergunte a si mesmo: “Eu prefiro estar certo ou ser gentil?” (Wayne Dyer) Que diferença fará? Seu ego é mesmo tão grande assim?
2. Desista da sua necessidade de controle
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1. Desista da sua necessidade de estar sempre certo
Há tantos de nós que não podem suportar a ideia de estarem errados – querem ter sempre razão – mesmo correndo o risco de acabar com grandes relacionamentos ou causar estresse e dor, para nós e para os outros. E não vale a pena, mesmo. Sempre que você sentir essa necessidade “urgente” de começar uma briga sobre quem está certo e quem está errado, pergunte a si mesmo: “Eu prefiro estar certo ou ser gentil?” (Wayne Dyer) Que diferença fará? Seu ego é mesmo tão grande assim?
2. Desista da sua necessidade de controle
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segunda-feira, 26 de agosto de 2013
Realidade e percepção
Circumstances that color our perception
Speaker opens revived William James Lectures by probing perception
Dozens of Harvard faculty and students gathered at Emerson Hall on Feb. 23 to ponder the nature of perception with Ned Block, the Silver Professor of Philosophy, Psychology and Neural Science at New York University (NYU) and one of the country’s leading thinkers on consciousness.Block’s lecture, “How Empirical Facts About Attention Transform Traditional Philosophical Debates About the Nature of Perception,” explored prevailing notions of perception by looking at how we see and pay attention to objects we encounter. As the title indicated, the lecture was peppered with evidence from experiments, some of which he asked members of the audience to try themselves.
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O nascimento do individualismo e da modernidade
J.W.N. Watkins illustrates how the great individualist thinkers of the 17th century had a profound effect upon the development of modern Europe.
The explosive idea of individuality entered seventeenth-century Europe from the South and from the North. From Italy, from the drawings of Leonardo and the pages of Machiavelli, came the unmistakable picture of Renaissance man, passionate, strong and cunning. From Germany, from the turmoil of Luther’s emotional theology, came the idea of the supreme authority of inward conviction: the old outward authority of the visible church was to melt beneath the glare of the inner light which purifies the heart and illumines the mind of a member of the invisible church of true believers. And then, combining with the intoxicating aesthetic and religious individualism of the Renaissance and the Reformation, came from both Italy and Germany, from Galileo and Kepler, the new individualism of independent scientific enquiry. Here, a new power of the human mind was brilliantly manifested, the power of dissolving the commonsense, surface-view of the world, and of ordering and relating a mass of far-flung phenomena by detecting the simple and universal principles which silently govern them.
Cálculos errados
Right choice, but not the intuitive one
Psychologist explores common barriers to good decision-making
Jon Chase/Harvard Staff Photographer
When faced with a tough choice, we already have the cognitive tools we need to make the right decision, Daniel Gilbert, a professor of psychology at Harvard, told his Law School audience.
To take a gratifying, low-paying job or a well-paid corporate position, to get married or play the field, to move across the country or stay put: The fact that most people face such choices at some point in their lives doesn’t make them any easier. No one knows the dilemma better than law students, who are poised to enter a competitive job market after staking years of study on their chosen field.
When faced with a tough choice, we already have the cognitive tools we need to make the right decision, Daniel Gilbert, professor of psychology at Harvard and host of the PBS series “This Emotional Life,” told a Harvard Law School (HLS) audience on Feb. 16. The hard part is overcoming the tricks our minds play on us that render rational decision-making nearly impossible.
Gilbert’s talk, titled “How To Do Precisely the Right Thing at All Possible Times,” was part of Living Well in the Law, a new program sponsored by the HLS Dean of Students Office that aims to help law students consider their personal and professional development beyond the fast track of summer associate positions and big-law job offers.
There is a relatively simple equation for figuring out the best course of action in any situation, Gilbert explained: What are the odds of a particular action getting you what you want, and how much do you value getting what you want? If you really want something, and you identify an action that will make it likely, then taking that action is a good move.
Unfortunately, Gilbert said, “these are also the two ways human beings screw up.”
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When faced with a tough choice, we already have the cognitive tools we need to make the right decision, Daniel Gilbert, professor of psychology at Harvard and host of the PBS series “This Emotional Life,” told a Harvard Law School (HLS) audience on Feb. 16. The hard part is overcoming the tricks our minds play on us that render rational decision-making nearly impossible.
Gilbert’s talk, titled “How To Do Precisely the Right Thing at All Possible Times,” was part of Living Well in the Law, a new program sponsored by the HLS Dean of Students Office that aims to help law students consider their personal and professional development beyond the fast track of summer associate positions and big-law job offers.
There is a relatively simple equation for figuring out the best course of action in any situation, Gilbert explained: What are the odds of a particular action getting you what you want, and how much do you value getting what you want? If you really want something, and you identify an action that will make it likely, then taking that action is a good move.
Unfortunately, Gilbert said, “these are also the two ways human beings screw up.”
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Tubulências financeiras
BCs esperam mais turbulência
| Autor(es): Por Victoria McGrane | The Wall Street Journal, de Jackson Hole, Wyoming |
| Valor Econômico - 26/08/2013 |
Dirigentes de bancos centrais de todo o mundo estão se preparando para mais turbulência financeira à medida que o Federal Reserve se prepara para encerrar as suas políticas de relaxamento monetário. Os mercados globais vêm cambaleando desde maio, quando o banco central americano começou a dar sinais de que em breve pode começar a reduzir seu programa de US$ 85 bilhões por mês em compras de títulos de dívida. Os juros das hipotecas subiram nos Estados Unidos e as moedas e ações de muitas economias em desenvolvimento despencaram. Mais |
Escever de mão faz inteligente
What Learning Cursive Does for Your Brain
Cursive Writing Makes Kids Smarter
Yet scientists are discovering that learning cursive is an important tool for cognitive development, particularly in training the brain to learn “functional specialization,”[2] that is capacity for optimal efficiency. In the case of learning cursive writing, the brain develops functional specialization that integrates both sensation, movement control, and thinking. Brain imaging studies reveal that multiple areas of brain become co-activated during learning of cursive writing of pseudo-letters, as opposed to typing or just visual practice.There is spill-over benefit for thinking skills used in reading and writing. To write legible cursive, fine motor control is needed over the fingers. Students have to pay attention and think about what and how they are doing it. They have to practice. Brain imaging studies show that cursive activates areas of the brain that do not participate in keyboarding.
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Ciência da felicidade
Money, marriage, kids
To attain happiness, Gilbert says, consider your mom’s recipe
"The interplay of money and happiness is subject to diminishing marginal returns, noted Gilbert, who showed a graph revealing a correlation between the two increases at lower income levels and lower returns at higher levels. What’s the sweet spot where each dollar buys the most happiness? Gilbert cited a per capita income between $50,000 to $75,000."He then suggested that people with higher incomes aren’t spending their money on the right things. Time spent resting, for example, the dream of so many working people, simply doesn’t deliver happiness. “People are happiest when the mind is engaged,” Gilbert said, whether talking, creating, or having sex (another point for marriage). “People are [also] happier when they give money away rather than spending it on themselves.”
"Gilbert then discussed children, mom’s last ingredient for happiness. While people might refer to them as “bundles of joy,” said Gilbert (who has a son and grandchildren), “they’re not a source of happiness.” He displayed a bar graph showing that childless adults are much happier than parents. “Once people have kids, there’s a downturn in happiness,” he said, which isn’t reversed until the kids move out. “The only symptom of empty nest syndrome,” Gilbert said, chuckling, “is nonstop smiling.”"
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