July 2010
35 posts
Migração para o Google Reader
Rápido aviso aos leitores das anotações e links sugeridos aqui no Blogossauro: há muita redundância entre as coisas que coloco aqui e os items que dou share na minha conta o Google Reader, que é onde faço quase todas as minhas leituras hoje em dia.
Vou encerrar as anotações no blog e passar a me concentrar no Reader. Vejo vocês no feed:
google.com/reader/shared/rubens.campana
Should the U.S. Really Try to Host Another World... →
The recently completed South Africa World Cup is hardly an exception, with the bulk of the trouble lying in the gap between optimistic projected costs and actual costs:
The proposed budget for the 2010 games was about $225 million for stadiums and $421 million overall. Expenses have far exceeded those numbers. Reported stadium expenses jumped from the planned level of $225 million to $2.13...
Proton Smaller Than Thought — May Rewrite Laws of... →
Scientists “totally surprised” by “significant shake-up.”
“For all the (largely deserved) hype about... →
Chinese Factories Now Compete to Woo Laborers →
Assertive, self-possessed workers like Ms. Wang have become a challenge for the industrial titans of the Pearl River Delta that once filled their mammoth workshops with an endless stream of pliant labor from China’s rural belly.
In Brazil, 86% of all internet users logged on to... →
No Keynesianism in the Berliner Morgenpost →
Anyway, I noticed a piece in the 12 June edition, entitled “Germany is driving European economic growth.” What’s most striking about thie article, and other sources, is how much Keynesianism has failed to influence either German policy or German public opinion. In the piece, there is no mention of international imbalances or aggregate demand issues, but rather Germany is...
“The move to break up Belgium gathered pace on... →
Deepwater Horizon: How big? →
One of the teams in the government taskforce has put the latest estimate at between 20,000 and 40,000 barrels a day, up from an earlier range of 12,000 to 19,000. Discounting the 149,000 barrels captured by BP’s cap, even at the low end of the new range, the leak would be one of the largest accidental spills ever (the various wells uncorked by the first Gulf War were far bigger).
“For the first time in our polling, a majority of... →
Night owls are smarter than other people, and now... →
The Proceedings of the Friesian School, Fourth... →
The Proceedings of the Friesian School, Fourth Series seeks to promote the further development of the Critical Philosophy of Immanuel Kant (1724-1804) in the direction indicated by Sir Karl Popper’s remark in The Open Society and Its Enemies that “serious men,” such as Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860) and Jakob Friedrich Fries (1773-1843), did not at first take seriously the...
“None of the gods love wisdom or desire to become wise, for they are wise already...”
– Plato
WatchSoccer Officially Announces It Is Gay
Inflation in job titles is approaching Weimar... →
KIM JONG IL, the North Korean dictator, is not normally a trendsetter. But in one area he is clearly leading the pack: job-title inflation. Mr Kim has 1,200 official titles, including, roughly translated, guardian deity of the planet, ever-victorious general, lodestar of the 21st century, supreme commander at the forefront of the struggle against imperialism and the United States, eternal bosom...
Complex, multicellular life from over two billion... →
The discovery in Gabon of more than 250 fossils in an excellent state of conservation has provided proof, for the first time, of the existence of multicellular organisms 2.1 billion years ago. This finding represents a major breakthrough: until now, the first complex life forms (made up of several cells) dated from around 600 million years ago.
Brother →
Why I no longer speak to the brother who raised me like a father.
Texto longo, mas vale a pena.
50 anos depois, inventor do pixel ainda se... →
“Squares was the logical thing to do,” Kirsch says. “Of course, the logical thing was not the only possibility … but we used squares. It was something very foolish that everyone in the world has been suffering from ever since.”
“It’s nice to remind people, as they gather for July 4th picnics and the local...”
– Kevin Carson
“Man is small, and, therefore, small is beautiful.”
– E. F. Shumacher
What’s the Worst War Since WWII? →
The International Rescue Committee (IRC), which carried out the study with Australia’s Burnet Institute, said Democratic Republic of Congo’s 1998-2003 war and its aftermath had caused more deaths than any other conflict since World War Two.
“Congo’s loss is equivalent to the entire population of Denmark or the state of Colorado perishing within a decade,” George...
America’s amazing success since 1980 →
Suppose you had gotten a room full of economists together in 1980, and made the following predictions: Over the next 28 years the US would grow as fast as Japan, and faster than Europe (in GDP per capita, PPP.)
Over the next 28 years Britain would overtake Germany and France in GDP per capita.
And you said you were making these predictions because you thought Thatcher and Reagan’s policies...
WatchElizabeth Pisani: Sex, drugs and HIV
Who Owns the Korean Taco? →
The birth of the Korean taco raises a big question about creativity in cuisine. Why do chefs continue to invent new dishes when others are free to copy them?
Why Some Countries Drive on the Right and Some... →
June 2010
50 posts
Avertible catastrophe →
Why does neither the U.S. government nor U.S. energy companies have on hand the cleanup technology available in Europe? Ironically, the superior European technology runs afoul of U.S. environmental rules. The voracious Dutch vessels, for example, continuously suck up vast quantities of oily water, extract most of the oil and then spit overboard vast quantities of nearly oil-free water. Nearly...
Plato’s stave: academic cracks philosopher’s... →
“A science historian at The University of... →
“The hard problem” →
Art restorers in Italy have discovered what are... →
“86 movie sequels currently in development” →
(via aleatorio)
Hundreds of Unreleased Jackson Five Tracks Found →
Some 273 unreleased songs by the Jackson Five, including a duet with Tina Turner, have been discovered among items in a warehouse full of memorabilia bought by a Toronto man.
Stoicism Is Just So Yesterday →
Between the hyper-intellectual abstractions of university philosophers and the calculating, materialistic schemes of self-help gurus, lies another philosophy. This is the philosophy of the ancients, of Marcus Aurelius. It is a practice that intends to help individuals answer life’s great metaphysical questions in both material and spiritual terms: What is my place is the world, the cosmos?...