October 2007
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September 2007
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O dilema de um astronauta muçulmano: como se virar... →
Sheikh Muszaphar Shukor tem um sério problema: Meca fica se movendo o tempo todo.
A playlist de Oliver Sacks →
Em seu livro Um Antropólogo em Marte, Sacks descreve uma ida à um show do Grateful Dead com um paciente cujo sentido de tempo fora congelado no fim dos anos 60 por um tumor no cérebro. Breve artigo da Wired sobre o gosto musical do neuro-antropólogo, por ele próprio.
“Homens solitários procuram companhia. Mulheres solitárias sentam-se em casa e...”
– Abraham Lincoln
Susan Savage-Rumbaugh: macacos que escrevem,... →
The Jesus Puzzle →
That Jesus was a man who lived and preached in Palestine during the early first century, who gave rise to a faith movement centered upon himself which would go on to become one of the world’s great religions, might seem to be a fairly straightforward proposition. And yet, accommodating such a simple assumption to the documentary evidence is an exceedingly difficult task.
Doença misteriosa se espalha após queda de meteoro... →
Meteoro cai em uma vila no sul do Peru. Habitantes de tal vila são afligidos por doença misteriosa. Se isto fosse um filme B, o próximo passo seria a transformação desses peruanos em zumbis. Em Night of The Living Dead é até mesmo sugerido que a epidemia morto-viva-canibal pode ter origem em algum tipo de radiação cósmica.
Linha do tempo das mais importantes invenções dos... →
“Me arrependo de coisas que disse, mas jamais do meu silêncio.”
– Xenócrates
Porquê eu odeio Os Simpsons →
With The Simpsons movie in theaters, and every fucking 7-11 converted into a massive walk-in advertisement for the show, I have finally decided to speak out about why I have hated this overrated, overquoted TV show for 17 years.
"Rei do Mo-Cap" fala sobre atuação digital e... →
Andry Serkis é o mestre das performances para motion-capture — o registro de cada movimento e nuance facial que é utilizado por animadores para dar vida à personagens gerados por computador. Ele é o ator de teatro que existe no Gollum de O Senhor dos Anéis e na última versão de King Kong. Em inglês, na Wired.
Coisas que você pode imprimir (como uma câmera... →
The age of disaster capitalism →
In the days after 9/11, America’s firefighters, nurses and teachers were hailed as the country’s heroes. But President Bush’s embracing of the public sector didn’t last long. As the dust settled on the twin towers, the White House launched an entirely new economy, based on security - with the belief that only private firms could meet the challenge. Trecho do novo livro de...
The Gone World: Wallace Berman's Photographs →
The mystery of Wallace Berman’s photographs revolves around the degree to which they were — or were not — set up. Was performing for each other simply part of how he and his friends related to one another, part of the social routine, a communal project experimenting with identity, or was it all Berman’s invention?
Persistência de mitos altera a percepção do... →
The conventional response to myths and urban legends is to counter bad information with accurate information. But the new psychological studies show that denials and clarifications, for all their intuitive appeal, can paradoxically contribute to the resiliency of popular myths.
In God we doubt →
He went looking for God and ended up an angry agnostic — unable to believe but enraged by the arrogance of militant atheists. It’s hard to see the purpose of the world, he says, but don’t blame its evils on religion.
