quinta-feira, 21 de julho de 2016
36 grandes oratórios
A Man's Life, Manly Knowledge
The 35 Greatest Speeches in History
If a man wishes to become a great orator, he must first become a student of the great orators who have come before him. He must immerse himself in their texts, listening for the turns of phrases and textual symmetries, the pauses and crescendos, the metaphors and melodies that have enabled the greatest speeches to stand the test of time.
There was not currently a resource on the web to my liking that offered the man who wished to study the greatest orations of all time-from ancient to modern-not only a list of the speeches but a link to the text and a paragraph outlining the context in which the speech was given. So we decided to create one ourselves. The Art of Manliness thus proudly presents the “35 Greatest Speeches in World History,” the finest library of speeches available on the web.
These speeches lifted hearts in dark times, gave hope in despair, refined the characters of men, inspired brave feats, gave courage to the weary, honored the dead, and changed the course of history. It is my desire that this library will become a lasting resource not only to those who wish to become great orators, but to all men who wisely seek out the great mentors of history as guides on the path to virtuous manhood.
Matemática errada
Cantor Was Wrong | There Are No Infinite Sets
The foundations of modern mathematics are flawed. A logical contradiction is nestled at the very core, and it’s been there for a century.
Of all the controversial ideas I hold, this is the most radical. I disagree with nearly all professional mathematicians, and I think they’ve made an elementary error that most children would discover.
It’s about infinity. I’ve written about infinity here, here, and here, and each article points to the same conclusion:
There are no infinite sets.
Not only do infinite sets not exist, but the very concept is logically contradictory – no different than “square circles”.
Infinite sets are quite literally enshrined into the modern foundations of math – with what’s called “The Axiom of Infinity”. It simply states that, “At least one infinite set exists.” Specifically, the set of natural numbers (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, and so on).
Superficially, it seems like the answer to the question, “How many numbers are there?” is “Infinity!”, but that’s not a precise answer – especially if we do not carefully define our terms.
Mathematical Proof
quarta-feira, 20 de julho de 2016
Falsificação de preferências
Private Truths, Public Lies: The Social Consequences of Preference Falsification Reprint Edition
Preference falsification, according to the economist Timur Kuran, is the act of misrepresenting one's wants under perceived social pressures. It happens frequently in everyday life, such as when we tell the host of a dinner party that we are enjoying the food when we actually find it bland. In Private Truths, Public Lies Kuran argues convincingly that the phenomenon not only is ubiquitous but has huge social and political consequences. Drawing on diverse intellectual traditions, including those rooted in economics, psychology, sociology, and political science, Kuran provides a unified theory of how preference falsification shapes collective decisions, orients structural change, sustains social stability, distorts human knowledge, and conceals political possibilities.
A common effect of preference falsification is the preservation of widely disliked structures. Another is the conferment of an aura of stability on structures vulnerable to sudden collapse. When the support of a policy, tradition, or regime is largely contrived, a minor event may activate a bandwagon that generates massive yet unanticipated change.
In distorting public opinion, preference falsification also corrupts public discourse and, hence, human knowledge. So structures held in place by preference falsification may, if the condition lasts long enough, achieve increasingly genuine acceptance. The book demonstrates how human knowledge and social structures co-evolve in complex and imperfectly predictable ways, without any guarantee of social efficiency.
Private Truths, Public Lies uses its theoretical argument to illuminate an array of puzzling social phenomena. They include the unexpected fall of communism, the paucity, until recently, of open opposition to affirmative action in the United States, and the durability of the beliefs that have sustained India's caste system.
Tática de guerra
The Auftragstaktik doctrine is the reason for a great number of the Wehrmacht’s spectacular victories, not only when they were winning but also when they were retreating.
terça-feira, 19 de julho de 2016
Espiões comunistas no governo de Roosevelt
"... What we learn from Evans and Romerstein is that the Soviet war and post-war gains at the West’s expense were hardly an accident. They had ample assistance from a Roosevelt administration that was thoroughly laced with Stalin’s agents. The agents were sufficiently numerous and highly placed that almost any theft of secrets they might have accomplished was small potatoes compared to their influence upon policy. A central message of the book—never explicitly stated—is that there was an international conspiracy to, in effect, overthrow Western civilization. (The authors would never point it out, but readers of the book will notice that a high percentage of the people involved were Jewish. Readers of this review will notice, as well, that some of the key brave people sounding the alarm over this subversion were also Jewish.) Not only was the U.S. government penetrated at the highest level, but this organized Communist network also apparently controlled key positions in the U.S. opinion-molding business...
http://dcdave.com/article5/130201.htmMais
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sábado, 16 de julho de 2016
sexta-feira, 15 de julho de 2016
A busca do poder
The Pursuit of Power: Technology, Armed Force, and Society since A.D. 1000 1st Edition
"No summary can do justice to McNeill's intricate, encyclopedic treatment. . . . McNeill's erudition is stunning, as he moves easily from European to Chinese and Islamic cultures and from military and technological to socio-economic and political developments. The result is a grand synthesis of sweeping proportions and interdisciplinary character that tells us almost as much about the history of butter as the history of guns. . . . McNeill's larger accomplishment is to remind us that all humankind has a shared past and, particularly with regard to its choice of weapons and warfare, a shared stake in the future."—Stuart Rochester, Washington Post Book World
"Mr. McNeill's comprehensiveness and sensitivity do for the reader what Henry James said that Turgenev's conversation did for him: they suggest 'all sorts of valuable things.' This narrative of rationality applied to irrational purposes and of ingenuity cannibalizing itself is a work of clarity, which delineates mysteries. The greatest of them, to my mind, is why human beings have never learned to cherish their own species."—Naomi Bliven, The New Yorker
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Bastille - a grande ruptura
Solzhenitsyn Mourned Bastille Day. So Should All Christians.
The French Revolution invented radical nationalism and socialism, and launched the first modern genocide, aimed at Christians.
"... the first such modern genocide in the West took place in France, beginning in 1793. It was undertaken by modern, progressive apostles of Enlightenment and aimed at pious peasants in the Vendée region of France. By its end up to 300,000 civilians had been killed by the armies of the Republic.
This story is little discussed in France. Indeed, a devout historian who teaches at a French university once told me, “We are not to mention the Vendée. Anyone who brings up what was done there has no prospect of an academic career. So we keep silent.”
Uma nova lei estatística
Imagine an archipelago where each island hosts a single tortoise species and all the islands are connected — say by rafts of flotsam. As the tortoises interact by dipping into one another’s food supplies, their populations fluctuate.
In 1972, the biologist Robert May devised a simple mathematical model that worked much like the archipelago. He wanted to figure out whether a complex ecosystem can ever be stable or whether interactions between species inevitably lead some to wipe out others. By indexing chance interactions between species as random numbers in a matrix, he calculated the critical “interaction strength” — a measure of the number of flotsam rafts, for example — needed to destabilize the ecosystem. Below this critical point, all species maintained steady populations. Above it, the populations shot toward zero or infinity. Little did May know, the tipping point he discovered was one of the first glimpses of a curiously pervasive statistical law.
Confusões com a ciência
Collage by Astronomy: Chuck Braasch
There’s a sickness over the land. It may not, as the biblical plagues did, kill anyone. But it is corrupting millions of people with an unrealistic, warped view of the universe around them.
Every hour, every day, every week, and every month, the quality of information shared between people is seemingly getting worse, plagued by inaccuracies, exaggerations, overreactions, and outright lies. It happens in newspapers, in magazines, on television, on the Internet, and especially on social media, more and more, seemingly, as time goes on.
It’s a gross misrepresentation of science, the rational thinking process that allows us to interpret the world.
And it shows absolutely no signs of stopping. In fact, it seems to accelerate as time rolls on.
“The Big Bang never happened!”
“GMOs are bad for you and there’s a huge conspiracy to push them at consumers.”
“Global warming doesn’t exist.”
“Vaccines are killing children.”
In far too much of the media, let alone individual writings and postings, wholesale, anti-scientific sentiments seem to be winning the day.
Why, exactly, is this?
quarta-feira, 13 de julho de 2016
A inteligência do estomago
Think Twice: How the Gut's "Second Brain" Influences Mood and Well-Being
The emerging and surprising view of how the enteric nervous system in our bellies goes far beyond just processing the food we eat
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segunda-feira, 11 de julho de 2016
O mito da superpopulação
“What most frequently meets our view (and occasions complaint) is our teeming population. Our numbers are burdensome to the world, which can hardly support us . . . . In very deed, pestilence, and famine, and wars, and earthquakes have to be regarded as a remedy for nations, as the means of pruning the luxuriance of the human race.”
This was not written by professional doomsayer Paul Ehrlich (The Population Bomb,1968). It is not found in the catastrophist works of Donella and Dennis Meadows (The Limits to Growth, 1972; Beyond the Limits, 1992). Nor did it come from the Council on Environmental Quality and the Department of State’s pessimistic assessment of the world situation, The Global 2000 Report to the President (1980).
It did not even come from Thomas Malthus, whose Essay on Population (1798) in the late eighteenth century is the seminal work to which much of the modern concern about overpopulation can be traced. And it did not come from Botero, a sixteenth-century Italian whose work anticipated many of the arguments advanced by Malthus two centuries later.
The opening quotation was penned by Tertullian, a resident of the city of Carthage in the second century, when the population of the world was about 190 million, or only three to four percent of what it is today. And the fear of overpopulation did not begin with Tertullian. One finds similar concerns expressed in the writings of Plato and Aristotle in the fourth century B.C., as well as in the teachings of Confucius as early as the sixth century B.C.
O que significa "fascismo"?
"... Fascismo é provavelmente um dos conceitos mais repetidos e pouco compreendidos da história dos dicionários políticos. Veja você mesmo. Quantas vezes você ouviu essa expressão nos últimos meses? Eu poderia apostar que não seria possível listar nos dedos de uma mão. E isso para não falar da possibilidade que você mesmo tenha sido acusado disso. Eu vivo lendo isso por aqui. Quando não como crítica aos textos que escrevo, como resposta aos comentários dos próprios leitores. Todos devidamente catalogados como fascistas. A questão é: alguém saberia realmente explicar o que exatamente é o fascismo? Ou será que todo mundo repete essa palavra sem ter a mais remota noção do que ela significa?
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Onde morar como aposentado
Os 10 melhores lugares do mundo para viver a aposentadoria.
- Algarve, Portugal
- Cuenca, Equador
- George Town, Malásia
- Northern, Belize
- Dumaguete, Filipinas
- Pau, França
- Medellin, Colômbia
- Abruzzo, Itália
- Pedasi, Panama
- Istanbul, Turquia
domingo, 10 de julho de 2016
Guerras napoleonicas
Somewhere in the range of 3.5 million to 6 million people died as a result of the Napoleonic Wars, which lasted from 1803 to 1815. This includes both military and civilian casualties, and encompasses death from war-related diseases and other causes. Estimates of the number of soldiers killed in battle range from500,000 to almost 2 million. What happened to all of those bodies? What did Napoleonic battlefield cleanup entail?
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Rede túneis na Europa
Rede de Túneis de 12 mil anos que cruza toda Europa intriga pesquisadores
Datadas em mais de 12 mil anos, essas passagens subterrâneas ainda permanecem um mistério. Quem as construiu? Para quê? Como foi possível?
Entrada para o Erdstall em Perg, Áustria. O túnel abrange a Áustria e Alemanha, porém segundo Dr. Kusch, há uma ligação entre túneis que vão desde a Escócia até a Turquia.
Diferente do que a grande maioria pensa, a maior parte do nosso planeta ainda não foi catalogada, e diariamente novas descobertas são feitas, e nem sempre elas são o que pensamos.
sexta-feira, 8 de julho de 2016
Conquistadores
10 Forgotten Conquerors From Ancient History
In Shelley’s famous poem Ozymandias, a broken statue lies in the empty desert, its pedestal hollowly boasting, “My name is Ozymandias, king of Kings; Look on my Works, ye Mighty, and despair!”The conquerors on this list boasted that they had “all the lands at [my] feet” or promised to make “Egypt taste the taste of my fingers!” But in the end, they, too, have been largely forgotten. Look upon their works and despair.
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As seus estruturas básicas do construir histórias
There are just SIX plots in every film, book and TV show ever made: Researchers reveal the 'building blocks' of storytelling
- Prior to this study it was believed there was 3 to more than 30 plots
- Used fictional stories that have been downloaded over 150 times
- Most popular stories follow the 'fall-rise-fall' and 'rise-fall' arcs
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-3679510/There-just-SIX-plots-film-book-TV-Researchers-reveal-building-blocks-storytelling.html#ixzz4DryyK2Vr
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quinta-feira, 7 de julho de 2016
O que significa ser "conservador"?
"Ser conservador, então, é preferir o conhecido ao desconhecido, o experimentado ao não experimentado, o fato ao mistério, o atual ao possível, o restrito ao irrestrito, o próximo ao distante, o suficiente ao superabundante, o conveniente ao perfeito, o sorriso presente ao êxtase utópico. Relações familiares e de lealdade serão preferidas ao fascínio de ligações mais rentáveis. Adquirir e ampliar serão menos importantes do que manter, cultivar e desfrutar. A dor da perda será mais aguda do que a excitação da novidade ou da promessa. É para igualar-se à própria sorte, para viver segundo os próprios meios, para contentar-se com o desejo de maior perfeição que tanto pertence a si mesmo quanto à própria circunstância. Em algumas pessoas essa é uma escolha natural; em outras uma disposição que se manifesta, frequentemente ou em menor grau, nas preferências e nas aversões, não sendo uma escolha intrínseca ou especificamente cultivada".
-- Michael Oakeshott (1901-1990)
-- Michael Oakeshott (1901-1990)
sábado, 2 de julho de 2016
Escravidão e capitalismo
The 18th-century thinkers behind laissez-faire economics saw slavery as a great example of global free trade
"... It is only in the past few decades that scholars have come to grips with how slavery and capitalism intertwined. But for the 18th-century French thinkers who laid the foundations of laissez-faire capitalism, it made perfect sense to associate the slave trade with free enterprise. Their writings, which inspired the Scottish philosopher Adam Smith’s Wealth of Nations (1776), aimed to convince the French monarchy to deregulate key businesses such as the sale of grain and trade with Asia. Only a few specialists read them today. Yet these pamphlets, letters and manuscripts clearly proclaim a powerful message: the birth of modern capitalism depended not only on the labour of enslaved people and the profits of the slave trade, but also on the example of slavery as a deregulated global enterprise..."
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"... It is only in the past few decades that scholars have come to grips with how slavery and capitalism intertwined. But for the 18th-century French thinkers who laid the foundations of laissez-faire capitalism, it made perfect sense to associate the slave trade with free enterprise. Their writings, which inspired the Scottish philosopher Adam Smith’s Wealth of Nations (1776), aimed to convince the French monarchy to deregulate key businesses such as the sale of grain and trade with Asia. Only a few specialists read them today. Yet these pamphlets, letters and manuscripts clearly proclaim a powerful message: the birth of modern capitalism depended not only on the labour of enslaved people and the profits of the slave trade, but also on the example of slavery as a deregulated global enterprise..."
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quarta-feira, 29 de junho de 2016
The.Essential.Leonard.E.Read.epub
sábado, 25 de junho de 2016
Tarde
"If you can spend a perfectly useless afternoon in a perfectly useless manner, you have learned how to live."
(Lin Yutang)
(Lin Yutang)
quarta-feira, 22 de junho de 2016
terça-feira, 21 de junho de 2016
D-Day
D-Day GIs 'raped and killed their French allies while US army generals turned a blind eye'
FROM The Longest Day to Saving Private Ryan, the D-Day landings cornered the market in cinematic heroics with "might and right" rolling the Nazis back to Berlin.
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