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Sun, 25 Jul 2010 03:09:03 -0300

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:

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Should the U.S. Really Try to Host Another World Cup?

Wed, 21 Jul 2010 00:52:20 -0300

Should the U.S. Really Try to Host Another World Cup?:

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 billion, and overall expenses jumped similarly from $421 million to over $5 billion.
And don’t forget the “ruins of modern Greece” — i.e., the abandoned facilities from the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens. You think Greece might be feeling a bit of buyer’s remorse about now?

Tom Lehrer — Who’s Next

Sun, 18 Jul 2010 17:40:43 -0300

Tom Lehrer — Who’s Next

Tom Lehrer — Wernher von Braun

Sun, 18 Jul 2010 17:40:39 -0300

Tom Lehrer — Wernher von Braun

Tom Lehrer — National Brotherhood Week & When You Are Old...

Sun, 18 Jul 2010 17:40:28 -0300

Tom Lehrer — National Brotherhood Week & When You Are Old And Gray

Tom Lehrer — So Long, Mom (A Song for World War III)

Sun, 18 Jul 2010 17:40:15 -0300

Tom Lehrer — So Long, Mom (A Song for World War III)

Tom Lehrer — Pollution

Sun, 18 Jul 2010 17:39:58 -0300

Tom Lehrer — Pollution

Tom Lehrer — The Masochism Tango

Sun, 18 Jul 2010 17:39:45 -0300

Tom Lehrer — The Masochism Tango

Tom Lehrer — We Will All Go Together When We Go

Sun, 18 Jul 2010 17:39:22 -0300

Tom Lehrer — We Will All Go Together When We Go

Proton Smaller Than Thought — May Rewrite Laws of Physics

Sat, 17 Jul 2010 23:51:00 -0300

Proton Smaller Than Thought — May Rewrite Laws of Physics:

Scientists “totally surprised” by “significant shake-up.”

“For all the (largely deserved) hype about Brazil’s emergence as a model world power, there is a reminder every so often of how young its democracy remains.”

Fri, 16 Jul 2010 23:11:18 -0300

“For all the (largely deserved) hype about Brazil’s emergence as a model world power, there is a reminder every so often of how young its democracy remains.”

Chinese Factories Now Compete to Woo Laborers

Fri, 16 Jul 2010 23:08:30 -0300

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 a social-networking site in April, the highest proportion of the ten countries surveyed.

Wed, 14 Jul 2010 11:49:03 -0300

In Brazil, 86% of all internet users logged on to a social-networking site in April, the highest proportion of the ten countries surveyed.

No Keynesianism in the Berliner Morgenpost

Wed, 14 Jul 2010 11:35:59 -0300

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 lauded for exporting so much and for serving as the economic locomotive for European economic activity. Furthermore this is a news story, not an Op-Ed.

Germany, of course, is one of the most successful countries in the world since its postwar reconstruction. (You could make a good case for giving Germany the “best country award” for the last fifty or sixty years.)

“The move to break up Belgium gathered pace on Sunday as a separatist won an emphatic election victory in Flanders, the more prosperous Dutch-speaking region of the divided nation.”

Wed, 14 Jul 2010 11:01:00 -0300

“The move to break up Belgium gathered pace on Sunday as a separatist won an emphatic election victory in Flanders, the more prosperous Dutch-speaking region of the divided nation.”

Deepwater Horizon: How big?

Wed, 14 Jul 2010 10:51:06 -0300

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 Americans (52%) disapprove of Barack Obama's job performance.”

Sat, 10 Jul 2010 01:31:37 -0300

“For the first time in our polling, a majority of Americans (52%) disapprove of Barack Obama's job performance.”

Night owls are smarter than other people, and now we may know why

Fri, 09 Jul 2010 23:21:42 -0300

Night owls are smarter than other people, and now we may know why

The Proceedings of the Friesian School, Fourth Series

Fri, 09 Jul 2010 00:18:00 -0300

The Proceedings of the Friesian School, Fourth Series:

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 “senseless and maddening webs of words,” as Schopenhauer put it, of G.W.F. Hegel.

[…]

Philosophy and her neglected customer, humanity, truly stand in need of alternative philosophical ideas and approaches. In the Twentieth Century, philosophy was like a confused and clumsy person who repeatedly tries to commit suicide, but keeps failing, though with the addition of debilitating damage at each attempt. In a classic sophistic dilemma of false alternatives, respected academic philosophy often seemed to have offered only two choices […].

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