July 2009
101 posts
Watch“Is Sarah Palin secretly a beat poet? Do her words make little to no sense because she is so immersed in language and lyrics that she operates on a plane we cannot grasp?
marinadobairro:
William Shatner Makes Palin’s Speech Into Poetry (VIDEO)
“Pronin and her co-authors explained to subjects the better-than-average effect,...”
– Bias blind spot - Wikipedia
Escape Pod, EP208: An Almanac for the Alien...
“340 engineers at VIA went on strike last week, essentially shutting down the...”
– The Daily Dig - INFRASTRUCTURIST
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This plate is designed for cutting cake, pie, etc. so that a varying number...”
– Plat Diviseur (Fractions on a plate) « The Number Warrior
“Wakefield (1999) has argued that disorders must meet two criteria to be viewed...”
– ADHD: Nature, Course, Outcomes, and Comorbidity by Russell A. Barkley, Ph.D.
“To make their jobs bearable, people tend to talk themselves into believing they...”
– MSN Money (thx www.marginarevolution.com)
“You’re all going to miss Big Pharma.”
– The Last Psychiatrist: What Healthcare Reform Means To Hospitals
“Any institution, whether or not it is a market, is implicitly a channel for...”
– Second-Best Mechanisms « Cheap Talk
43 weird things said in job interviews - CNN.com →
marinadobairro:
O mais hilário deste link é que, ao lado das quotes, aparece o nome de quem a está citando - só que fica parecendo que foi A PRÓPRIA PESSOA que falou!
“Petrobras won’t be destroyed but it might be tainted. You don’t want your image...”
– FT.com / Companies / Oil & Gas - Petrobras case threatens Brazil’s boom
“Intelligence is something that’s happening in your brain. Behavior is an...”
– Jeff Hawkins, On intelligence
“Once a co-worker told me — ‘Sometimes I think people can be too...”
– Stephen Eley, The N Words — um conto de sci-fi sobre clonagem de neandertais, não sobre o estigma associado a sintomas psiquiátricos.
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This is an unbelievable release: 50 discs, the vast majority of which are...”
– The Merzbox: Every Disc Rated and Reviewed - Rate Your Music
“Here’s how Leibniz put it: He talked about avoiding disputes—-and he...”
– Chaitin, Conversations with a Mathematician
“Bertrand Russell started off as a mathematician and then degenerated into a...”
– Chaitin, Conversations with a Mathematician
Erramos da semana (Folha de S. Paulo de ontem)
marinadobairro:
ILUSTRADA (12.JUL, PÁG. E3) Diferentemente do publicado no quadro “Isto É Radcliffe”, o ator Daniel Radcliffe não interpretou o mágico David Copperfield em telefilme inglês de 1999, mas sim um personagem homônimo baseado em livro de Charles Dickens.
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Remember the joke about the man who asks a woman if she would have sex with...”
– Peter Singer— Why we must ration healthcare
“[F]iscal policy is undermined if the federal government is doing one thing and...”
– The fifty states are hurting economic recovery : The New Yorker
“I am not all that fond of natural-law theory, as I tend to think that there are...”
– Justin Erik Halldór Smith
““Japan is years ahead in any innovation. But it hasn’t been able to get business...”
– Why Japan’s Smartphones Haven’t Gone Global - NYTimes.com
““Solving a problem with insight is fundamentally different from solving a...”
– A Wandering Mind Heads Toward Insight - WSJ.com
“I don’t want tighter monetary policy; I want looser. I don’t want...”
– Nick Rowe, que não está falando sobre o papel dos spreads bancários quando o Bacen brasileiro tenta fazer política monetária expansionista. Por pouco.
¿Y tú que has hecho? →
“Like the great apes we are able to comprehend reality abstractly through...”
– OpEdNews » Consciousness and Complexity
“With “Fordlandia,” Greg Grandin, a professor of history at New York University,...”
– Book Review - ‘Fordlandia - The Rise and Fall of Henry Ford’s Forgotten Jungle City,’ by Greg Grandin - Review - NYTimes.com
“Bottled water makers, it seems, are under seige. The Environmental Working...”
– Bottled Water Makers in the Hot Seat - Green Inc. Blog - NYTimes.com
“I am of the opinion that the credit explosion of the last 3 decades was a social...”
– The Oil Drum: Campfire | Peak Jubilee
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