jueves, febrero 04, 2010
Japanese Addresses and other opposites
Lo de las direcciones en Japón es desquiciado... Información vital para mi ojalá próximo viaje.
domingo, enero 31, 2010
One Sentence. True Stories, told in one sentence.
hexmark
It's hilarious to hear my father tell me he wasn't being a racist when he was berating me for "dating a filthy Filipina."
Auntie Boo
Today I made new friends in my dorm by passing out the cupcakes that were left over from my niece's second birthday party that got cancelled because she got a fever so high she had a seizure and stopped breathing until my sister gave her mouth to mouth.
Host
I was the last person to find out that I have Dissociative Identity Disorder and that one of my personalities has threatened my friends.
Red
I came out to my family over 6 years ago and the most painful reaction came from my father who said, "I thought you were smarter than that."
lunes, enero 11, 2010
Then and Now
domingo, enero 10, 2010
Comunas, Favelas, Slums
"If we tell people about our houses, will anyone believe us?"
Nagamma Shilpiri, Mumbai
See the project http://www.theplaceswelive.com/
Nagamma Shilpiri, Mumbai
See the project http://www.theplaceswelive.com/
sábado, enero 09, 2010
Shalom Auslander
"Shalom Auslander writes like Philip Roth's angry nephew. Foreskin's Lament is a scathing theological rant, a funny, oddly moving coming-of-age memoir, and an irreverent meditation on family, marriage, and cultural identity. God may be a bit irritated by this book, but I loved it."
-- Tom Perrotta, author of Little Children and The Abstinence Teacher
Watch the video (a new way to promote a book)
http://www.shalomauslander.com/video_foreskins_lament.php
viernes, enero 08, 2010
The Online Television Museum from the UK -TVARKk
miércoles, enero 06, 2010
The arrow of time by Diego Goldberg
Desde 1976 y cada 17 de Junio, la familia se toma una foto. Esta es la flecha del tiempo. Ir al título de este post para el link...
jueves, diciembre 24, 2009
martes, diciembre 22, 2009
miércoles, diciembre 02, 2009
Platon taking pictures of world leaders at UN this past september
FROM THE NEW YORKER:
http://www.newyorker.com/online/multimedia/2009/12/07/091207_audioslideshow_platon
This past September, when nearly all the world’s leaders were in New York for a meeting of the United Nations, Platon, a staff photographer for this magazine, set up a tiny studio off the floor of the General Assembly, and tried to hustle as many of them in front of his lens as possible. For months, members of the magazine’s staff had been writing letters to various governments and embassies, but the project was a five-day-long improvisation, with Platon doing his best to lure the likes of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Hugo Chávez, and Muammar Qaddafi to his camera.
DON'T MISS LISTENING TO THE AUDIO COMMENTARY FOR EACH PICTURE MADE BY PLATON HIMSELF.
Read more: http://www.newyorker.com/online/multimedia/2009/12/07/091207_audioslideshow_platon#ixzz0YZny90ZX
http://www.newyorker.com/online/multimedia/2009/12/07/091207_audioslideshow_platon
This past September, when nearly all the world’s leaders were in New York for a meeting of the United Nations, Platon, a staff photographer for this magazine, set up a tiny studio off the floor of the General Assembly, and tried to hustle as many of them in front of his lens as possible. For months, members of the magazine’s staff had been writing letters to various governments and embassies, but the project was a five-day-long improvisation, with Platon doing his best to lure the likes of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Hugo Chávez, and Muammar Qaddafi to his camera.
DON'T MISS LISTENING TO THE AUDIO COMMENTARY FOR EACH PICTURE MADE BY PLATON HIMSELF.
Read more: http://www.newyorker.com/online/multimedia/2009/12/07/091207_audioslideshow_platon#ixzz0YZny90ZX
martes, diciembre 01, 2009
miércoles, noviembre 25, 2009
martes, noviembre 03, 2009
martes, octubre 27, 2009
Will humans ever stop fighting wars? RadioLab
John Horgan examines how Americans seem to have a completely different attitude toward war than we did thirty years ago. He takes us on a stroll through Hoboken, asking strangers one of the great unanswerable questions: "Will humans ever stop fighting wars?" Strangely, everyone seems to know the answer.
To keep listening go to
http://www.wnyc.org/shows/radiolab/episodes/2009/10/02
miércoles, octubre 21, 2009
Mad World by Michael Andrews and Gary Jules
All around me are familiar faces
Worn out places, worn out faces
Bright and early for their daily races
Going nowhere, going nowhere
Their tears are filling up their glasses
No expression, no expression
Hide my head I want to drown my sorrow
No tomorrow, no tomorrow
And I find it kind of funny
I find it kind of sad
The dreams in which I'm dying
Are the best I've ever had
I find it hard to tell you
I find it hard to take
When people run in circles
It's a very, very
Mad World
Mad world
Children waiting for the day they feel good
Happy Birthday, Happy Birthday
And I feel the way that every child should
Sit and listen, sit and listen
Went to school and I was very nervous
No one knew me, no one knew me
Hello teacher tell me what's my lesson
Look right through me, look right through me
And I find it kind of funny
I find it kind of sad
The dreams in which I'm dying
Are the best I've ever had
I find it hard to tell you
I find it hard to take
When people run in circles
It's a very, very
Mad World
Mad World
Enlarging your world
Mad World.
jueves, octubre 01, 2009
Sum, a short by RadioLab
RADIOLAB SUM
For meditation number fifteen we have a reading from David Eagleman’s book Sum. It’s a vision of the after life that’s both playful and… horrifying. Sum is read by actor Jeffrey Tambor.
Go to
http://blogs.wnyc.org/radiolab/2009/08/13/15-sum/
For meditation number fifteen we have a reading from David Eagleman’s book Sum. It’s a vision of the after life that’s both playful and… horrifying. Sum is read by actor Jeffrey Tambor.
Go to
http://blogs.wnyc.org/radiolab/2009/08/13/15-sum/
Moments. A RadioLab visual experiment.
After hearing the radiolab show about moments of death, filmmaker Will Hoffman went out in search of moments of life. This is what he found.
sábado, septiembre 26, 2009
viernes, septiembre 25, 2009
sábado, septiembre 05, 2009
martes, septiembre 01, 2009
After Birth- Radio Lab shorts
After Birth and other shorts in Radio Lab.
Recomendado el especial de Radio Lab sobre los primeros meses del bebé:
Pardon the graphic pun, but hey! For this podcast Jad, a brand new father, wonders what’s going on inside the head of his baby, Amil. (And don’t worry, you don’t need kids to enjoy this podcast.) The questions here are big: what is it like to be so brand new to the world? None of us have memories from this time, so how could we possibly ever know? Is it just chaos? Or, is there something more, some understanding from the very beginning? Jad found a development psychologist named Charles Fernyhough to explore some of his questions.
http://blogs.wnyc.org/radiolab/2009/08/24/after-birth/
viernes, julio 03, 2009
Staying Alive by Radio Lab
It's worth going to http://blogs.wnyc.org/radiolab/2009/06/02/stayin-alive/ and listen to Staying Alive... a short podcast by my favorites from Radio Lab.
I specially recommend the last part, the CPR part. It starts in minute 11:26.
Its good..
viernes, junio 26, 2009
GENIALIDAD DE LA INGENIERÍA COLOMBIANA/ COLOMBIAN ENGINEERING
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ESCALERA ELÉCTRICA PARA NIÑOS -O ENANOS-.
SIGA NO MÁS POR AQUÍ...
UPS, ERROR...Gracias a Daniel por mandármelas...
lunes, junio 08, 2009
End the University as We Know It
By: Mark C. Taylor, the chairman of the religion department at Columbia.
GRADUATE education is the Detroit of higher learning. Most graduate programs in American universities produce a product for which there is no market (candidates for teaching positions that do not exist) and develop skills for which there is diminishing demand (research in subfields within subfields and publication in journals read by no one other than a few like-minded colleagues), all at a rapidly rising cost (sometimes well over $100,000 in student loans).
Widespread hiring freezes and layoffs have brought these problems into sharp relief now. But our graduate system has been in crisis for decades, and the seeds of this crisis go as far back as the formation of modern universities. Kant, in his 1798 work “The Conflict of the Faculties,” wrote that universities should “handle the entire content of learning by mass production, so to speak, by a division of labor, so that for every branch of the sciences there would be a public teacher or professor appointed as its trustee.”
Unfortunately this mass-production university model has led to separation where there ought to be collaboration and to ever-increasing specialization. In my own religion department, for example, we have 10 faculty members, working in eight subfields, with little overlap. And as departments fragment, research and publication become more and more about less and less. Each academic becomes the trustee not of a branch of the sciences, but of limited knowledge that all too often is irrelevant for genuinely important problems. A colleague recently boasted to me that his best student was doing his dissertation on how the medieval theologian Duns Scotus used citations.
The emphasis on narrow scholarship also encourages an educational system that has become a process of cloning. Faculty members cultivate those students whose futures they envision as identical to their own pasts, even though their tenures will stand in the way of these students having futures as full professors.
The dirty secret of higher education is that without underpaid graduate students to help in laboratories and with teaching, universities couldn’t conduct research or even instruct their growing undergraduate populations. That’s one of the main reasons we still encourage people to enroll in doctoral programs. It is simply cheaper to provide graduate students with modest stipends and adjuncts with as little as $5,000 a course — with no benefits — than it is to hire full-time professors.
In other words, young people enroll in graduate programs, work hard for subsistence pay and assume huge debt burdens, all because of the illusory promise of faculty appointments. But their economical presence, coupled with the intransigence of tenure, ensures that there will always be too many candidates for too few openings.
The other obstacle to change is that colleges and universities are self-regulating or, in academic parlance, governed by peer review. While trustees and administrations theoretically have some oversight responsibility, in practice, departments operate independently. To complicate matters further, once a faculty member has been granted tenure he is functionally autonomous. Many academics who cry out for the regulation of financial markets vehemently oppose it in their own departments.
If American higher education is to thrive in the 21st century, colleges and universities, like Wall Street and Detroit, must be rigorously regulated and completely restructured. The long process to make higher learning more agile, adaptive and imaginative can begin with six major steps:
1. Restructure the curriculum, beginning with graduate programs and proceeding as quickly as possible to undergraduate programs. The division-of-labor model of separate departments is obsolete and must be replaced with a curriculum structured like a web or complex adaptive network. Responsible teaching and scholarship must become cross-disciplinary and cross-cultural.
Just a few weeks ago, I attended a meeting of political scientists who had gathered to discuss why international relations theory had never considered the role of religion in society. Given the state of the world today, this is a significant oversight. There can be no adequate understanding of the most important issues we face when disciplines are cloistered from one another and operate on their own premises.
It would be far more effective to bring together people working on questions of religion, politics, history, economics, anthropology, sociology, literature, art, religion and philosophy to engage in comparative analysis of common problems. As the curriculum is restructured, fields of inquiry and methods of investigation will be transformed.
2. Abolish permanent departments, even for undergraduate education, and create problem-focused programs. These constantly evolving programs would have sunset clauses, and every seven years each one should be evaluated and either abolished, continued or significantly changed. It is possible to imagine a broad range of topics around which such zones of inquiry could be organized: Mind, Body, Law, Information, Networks, Language, Space, Time, Media, Money, Life and Water.
Consider, for example, a Water program. In the coming decades, water will become a more pressing problem than oil, and the quantity, quality and distribution of water will pose significant scientific, technological and ecological difficulties as well as serious political and economic challenges. These vexing practical problems cannot be adequately addressed without also considering important philosophical, religious and ethical issues. After all, beliefs shape practices as much as practices shape beliefs.
A Water program would bring together people in the humanities, arts, social and natural sciences with representatives from professional schools like medicine, law, business, engineering, social work, theology and architecture. Through the intersection of multiple perspectives and approaches, new theoretical insights will develop and unexpected practical solutions will emerge.
3. Increase collaboration among institutions. All institutions do not need to do all things and technology makes it possible for schools to form partnerships to share students and faculty. Institutions will be able to expand while contracting. Let one college have a strong department in French, for example, and the other a strong department in German; through teleconferencing and the Internet both subjects can be taught at both places with half the staff. With these tools, I have already team-taught semester-long seminars in real time at the Universities of Helsinki and Melbourne.
4. Transform the traditional dissertation. In the arts and humanities, where looming cutbacks will be most devastating, there is no longer a market for books modeled on the medieval dissertation, with more footnotes than text. As financial pressures on university presses continue to mount, publication of dissertations, and with it scholarly certification, is almost impossible. (The average university press print run of a dissertation that has been converted into a book is less than 500, and sales are usually considerably lower.) For many years, I have taught undergraduate courses in which students do not write traditional papers but develop analytic treatments in formats from hypertext and Web sites to films and video games. Graduate students should likewise be encouraged to produce “theses” in alternative formats.
5. Expand the range of professional options for graduate students. Most graduate students will never hold the kind of job for which they are being trained. It is, therefore, necessary to help them prepare for work in fields other than higher education. The exposure to new approaches and different cultures and the consideration of real-life issues will prepare students for jobs at businesses and nonprofit organizations. Moreover, the knowledge and skills they will cultivate in the new universities will enable them to adapt to a constantly changing world.
6. Impose mandatory retirement and abolish tenure. Initially intended to protect academic freedom, tenure has resulted in institutions with little turnover and professors impervious to change. After all, once tenure has been granted, there is no leverage to encourage a professor to continue to develop professionally or to require him or her to assume responsibilities like administration and student advising. Tenure should be replaced with seven-year contracts, which, like the programs in which faculty teach, can be terminated or renewed. This policy would enable colleges and universities to reward researchers, scholars and teachers who continue to evolve and remain productive while also making room for young people with new ideas and skills.
For many years, I have told students, “Do not do what I do; rather, take whatever I have to offer and do with it what I could never imagine doing and then come back and tell me about it.” My hope is that colleges and universities will be shaken out of their complacency and will open academia to a future we cannot conceive.
Mark C. Taylor, the chairman of the religion department at Columbia, is the author of the forthcoming “Field Notes From Elsewhere: Reflections on Dying and Living.”
GRADUATE education is the Detroit of higher learning. Most graduate programs in American universities produce a product for which there is no market (candidates for teaching positions that do not exist) and develop skills for which there is diminishing demand (research in subfields within subfields and publication in journals read by no one other than a few like-minded colleagues), all at a rapidly rising cost (sometimes well over $100,000 in student loans).
Widespread hiring freezes and layoffs have brought these problems into sharp relief now. But our graduate system has been in crisis for decades, and the seeds of this crisis go as far back as the formation of modern universities. Kant, in his 1798 work “The Conflict of the Faculties,” wrote that universities should “handle the entire content of learning by mass production, so to speak, by a division of labor, so that for every branch of the sciences there would be a public teacher or professor appointed as its trustee.”
Unfortunately this mass-production university model has led to separation where there ought to be collaboration and to ever-increasing specialization. In my own religion department, for example, we have 10 faculty members, working in eight subfields, with little overlap. And as departments fragment, research and publication become more and more about less and less. Each academic becomes the trustee not of a branch of the sciences, but of limited knowledge that all too often is irrelevant for genuinely important problems. A colleague recently boasted to me that his best student was doing his dissertation on how the medieval theologian Duns Scotus used citations.
The emphasis on narrow scholarship also encourages an educational system that has become a process of cloning. Faculty members cultivate those students whose futures they envision as identical to their own pasts, even though their tenures will stand in the way of these students having futures as full professors.
The dirty secret of higher education is that without underpaid graduate students to help in laboratories and with teaching, universities couldn’t conduct research or even instruct their growing undergraduate populations. That’s one of the main reasons we still encourage people to enroll in doctoral programs. It is simply cheaper to provide graduate students with modest stipends and adjuncts with as little as $5,000 a course — with no benefits — than it is to hire full-time professors.
In other words, young people enroll in graduate programs, work hard for subsistence pay and assume huge debt burdens, all because of the illusory promise of faculty appointments. But their economical presence, coupled with the intransigence of tenure, ensures that there will always be too many candidates for too few openings.
The other obstacle to change is that colleges and universities are self-regulating or, in academic parlance, governed by peer review. While trustees and administrations theoretically have some oversight responsibility, in practice, departments operate independently. To complicate matters further, once a faculty member has been granted tenure he is functionally autonomous. Many academics who cry out for the regulation of financial markets vehemently oppose it in their own departments.
If American higher education is to thrive in the 21st century, colleges and universities, like Wall Street and Detroit, must be rigorously regulated and completely restructured. The long process to make higher learning more agile, adaptive and imaginative can begin with six major steps:
1. Restructure the curriculum, beginning with graduate programs and proceeding as quickly as possible to undergraduate programs. The division-of-labor model of separate departments is obsolete and must be replaced with a curriculum structured like a web or complex adaptive network. Responsible teaching and scholarship must become cross-disciplinary and cross-cultural.
Just a few weeks ago, I attended a meeting of political scientists who had gathered to discuss why international relations theory had never considered the role of religion in society. Given the state of the world today, this is a significant oversight. There can be no adequate understanding of the most important issues we face when disciplines are cloistered from one another and operate on their own premises.
It would be far more effective to bring together people working on questions of religion, politics, history, economics, anthropology, sociology, literature, art, religion and philosophy to engage in comparative analysis of common problems. As the curriculum is restructured, fields of inquiry and methods of investigation will be transformed.
2. Abolish permanent departments, even for undergraduate education, and create problem-focused programs. These constantly evolving programs would have sunset clauses, and every seven years each one should be evaluated and either abolished, continued or significantly changed. It is possible to imagine a broad range of topics around which such zones of inquiry could be organized: Mind, Body, Law, Information, Networks, Language, Space, Time, Media, Money, Life and Water.
Consider, for example, a Water program. In the coming decades, water will become a more pressing problem than oil, and the quantity, quality and distribution of water will pose significant scientific, technological and ecological difficulties as well as serious political and economic challenges. These vexing practical problems cannot be adequately addressed without also considering important philosophical, religious and ethical issues. After all, beliefs shape practices as much as practices shape beliefs.
A Water program would bring together people in the humanities, arts, social and natural sciences with representatives from professional schools like medicine, law, business, engineering, social work, theology and architecture. Through the intersection of multiple perspectives and approaches, new theoretical insights will develop and unexpected practical solutions will emerge.
3. Increase collaboration among institutions. All institutions do not need to do all things and technology makes it possible for schools to form partnerships to share students and faculty. Institutions will be able to expand while contracting. Let one college have a strong department in French, for example, and the other a strong department in German; through teleconferencing and the Internet both subjects can be taught at both places with half the staff. With these tools, I have already team-taught semester-long seminars in real time at the Universities of Helsinki and Melbourne.
4. Transform the traditional dissertation. In the arts and humanities, where looming cutbacks will be most devastating, there is no longer a market for books modeled on the medieval dissertation, with more footnotes than text. As financial pressures on university presses continue to mount, publication of dissertations, and with it scholarly certification, is almost impossible. (The average university press print run of a dissertation that has been converted into a book is less than 500, and sales are usually considerably lower.) For many years, I have taught undergraduate courses in which students do not write traditional papers but develop analytic treatments in formats from hypertext and Web sites to films and video games. Graduate students should likewise be encouraged to produce “theses” in alternative formats.
5. Expand the range of professional options for graduate students. Most graduate students will never hold the kind of job for which they are being trained. It is, therefore, necessary to help them prepare for work in fields other than higher education. The exposure to new approaches and different cultures and the consideration of real-life issues will prepare students for jobs at businesses and nonprofit organizations. Moreover, the knowledge and skills they will cultivate in the new universities will enable them to adapt to a constantly changing world.
6. Impose mandatory retirement and abolish tenure. Initially intended to protect academic freedom, tenure has resulted in institutions with little turnover and professors impervious to change. After all, once tenure has been granted, there is no leverage to encourage a professor to continue to develop professionally or to require him or her to assume responsibilities like administration and student advising. Tenure should be replaced with seven-year contracts, which, like the programs in which faculty teach, can be terminated or renewed. This policy would enable colleges and universities to reward researchers, scholars and teachers who continue to evolve and remain productive while also making room for young people with new ideas and skills.
For many years, I have told students, “Do not do what I do; rather, take whatever I have to offer and do with it what I could never imagine doing and then come back and tell me about it.” My hope is that colleges and universities will be shaken out of their complacency and will open academia to a future we cannot conceive.
Mark C. Taylor, the chairman of the religion department at Columbia, is the author of the forthcoming “Field Notes From Elsewhere: Reflections on Dying and Living.”
martes, junio 02, 2009
jueves, mayo 28, 2009
domingo, mayo 10, 2009
sábado, abril 18, 2009
sábado, abril 11, 2009
domingo, febrero 15, 2009
sábado, febrero 14, 2009
sábado, febrero 07, 2009
viernes, enero 23, 2009
La nieve en New Mexico en nuestro paseo dicembrino
Para ver más fotos de paseo por New Mexico, Arizona y Texas vayan a
sábado, diciembre 20, 2008
The year 2008 in Photographs
Maasai warriors cover a battle field as they clash with bows and arrows with members of the Kalenjin tribe in the Kapune hill overlooking the Olmelil valley located in the Transmara District in Western Kenya on March 01, 2008. The Massai, the Kalenjin and the Kisii tribes have recently clashed over ongoing land disputes that erupted after botched local elections during the general elections held in Kenya in December of 2007. Over twenty warriors from the tribes have been killed in bow and arrow battles near the borders of these tribes in the last couple of months. (Yasuyoshi Chiba/AFP/Getty Images)
Time exposure of the Swiss mountain resort of Grindelwald next to the north face of the Eiger mountain, seen on January 10, 2008. (REUTERS/Stefan Wermuth)
martes, diciembre 16, 2008
sábado, diciembre 13, 2008
El Google Zeitgeist de Colombia 2008
Esta es la lista de los temas mas buscados en colombia en google...
"El 2008 ha sido un año de muchos cambios en Colombia, y las personas han estado utilizando Google para acceder a información relativa a estos cambios. La lista de los temas más buscados incluyen temas políticos, deportivos, de entretenimiento y más, como los intereses de la población en temas de solidaridad económica o el nivel de educación superior; así como búsquedas de eventos locales en el país, como conciertos y escándalos de famosos. Estas listas pueden darnos resultados de 2 tipos; resultados de búsqueda más populares, que indican los términos que más se buscaron durante el año, o Resultados de búsquedas con mayor crecimiento, que indican las búsquedas que más crecieron en comparación al 2007. ¡Navega por el sitio para conocer más de Zeitgeist, el espíritu de los tiempos, para 2008 en Colombia!
Emergentes (Fastest Rising)
facebook
hi5
naruto
youtube
sena virtual
computrabajo
traductor
juegos juegos
juego
you tube
Más Populares (Most Popular)
juegos juegos
juegos
colombia
youtube
facebook
hotmail
videos....
http://www.google.com/intl/en/press/zeitgeist2008/index.html#top
"El 2008 ha sido un año de muchos cambios en Colombia, y las personas han estado utilizando Google para acceder a información relativa a estos cambios. La lista de los temas más buscados incluyen temas políticos, deportivos, de entretenimiento y más, como los intereses de la población en temas de solidaridad económica o el nivel de educación superior; así como búsquedas de eventos locales en el país, como conciertos y escándalos de famosos. Estas listas pueden darnos resultados de 2 tipos; resultados de búsqueda más populares, que indican los términos que más se buscaron durante el año, o Resultados de búsquedas con mayor crecimiento, que indican las búsquedas que más crecieron en comparación al 2007. ¡Navega por el sitio para conocer más de Zeitgeist, el espíritu de los tiempos, para 2008 en Colombia!
Emergentes (Fastest Rising)
hi5
naruto
youtube
sena virtual
computrabajo
traductor
juegos juegos
juego
you tube
Más Populares (Most Popular)
juegos juegos
juegos
colombia
youtube
hotmail
videos....
http://www.google.com/intl/en/press/zeitgeist2008/index.html#top
jueves, diciembre 11, 2008
domingo, diciembre 07, 2008
jueves, noviembre 27, 2008
THE WEEE MAN
Un hombre que mide 7 metros y pesa 3 toneladas está en Londres. Las tres toneladas de desperdicios refleja la cantidad de lo que, en promedio, un ciudadano inglés desecha en su vida…
martes, noviembre 25, 2008
miércoles, noviembre 05, 2008
lunes, noviembre 03, 2008
viernes, octubre 31, 2008
sábado, octubre 25, 2008
viernes, octubre 10, 2008
viernes, octubre 03, 2008
domingo, septiembre 07, 2008
lunes, septiembre 01, 2008
Podcast Recomendado: Radio Lab (Press the wake up button)
Mi afición por los podcasts crece. "This American Life" (www.thisamericanlife.org) sigue siendo uno de mis favoritos pero hace poco y gracias a Ira Glass oi Radio Lab (www.radiolab.org).
Radio Lab es un programa de radio de WNYC Normalmente, dura una hora y es presentado por Jad Abumrad y Robert Krulwich
Radio Lab es un programa de radio de WNYC Normalmente, dura una hora y es presentado por Jad Abumrad y Robert Krulwich
(ver bios aquí: http://www.wnyc.org/shows/radiolab/bios.html)
Se pueden bajar en itunes (y están en inglés, claro está) pero también se pueden oir en la pagina de radio lab. Para cada episodio, añado el link.
Algunos de mis favoritos y recomendados son:
"Have you wondered if there is another you out there? Somewhere? Sitting in the same chair, reading the same blog post, wearing the same clothes and thinking the same thoughts? Well, Brian Greene says there must be one. Or two. Or lots and lots and lots and lots and… Why? You ask, well listen to Greene’s argument in this week’s podcast.
We are still furiously working on Season 5, so while you wait we bring you today’s podcast of a conversation between Robert Krulwich and Brian Greene, physics and mathematics professor and director of the Institute of Strings, Cosmology, and Astroparticle Physics at Columbia University. The interview is part of a series called “Giants of Science” hosted by venerable New York institution, the 92nd St Y.
Robert and Brian discuss what’s beyond the horizon of our universe, what you might wear in infinite universes with finite pairs of designer shoes, and why the Universe and swiss cheese have more in common than you think".
We are still furiously working on Season 5, so while you wait we bring you today’s podcast of a conversation between Robert Krulwich and Brian Greene, physics and mathematics professor and director of the Institute of Strings, Cosmology, and Astroparticle Physics at Columbia University. The interview is part of a series called “Giants of Science” hosted by venerable New York institution, the 92nd St Y.
Robert and Brian discuss what’s beyond the horizon of our universe, what you might wear in infinite universes with finite pairs of designer shoes, and why the Universe and swiss cheese have more in common than you think".
Morality:
http://www.wnyc.org/shows/radiolab/episodes/2006/04/28
Where does our sense of right and wrong come from? We peer inside the brains of people contemplating moral dilemmas, watch chimps at a primate research center share blackberries, observe a playgroup of 3 year-olds fighting over toys, and tour the country's first penitentiary, Eastern State Prison. Also: the story of land grabbing, indentured servitude and slum lording in the fourth grade.
Memory and Forgetting:
http://www.wnyc.org/shows/radiolab/episodes/2007/06/08
"According to the latest research, remembering is an unstable and profoundly unreliable process. It’s easy come, easy go as we learn how true memories can be obliterated and false ones added. And Oliver Sacks joins us to tell the story of an amnesiac whose love for his wife and music transcend his 7 second memory".
Laughter:
http://www.wnyc.org/shows/radiolab/episodes/2008/02/22
"We all laugh. But why? If you look closely, you'll find that humor has very little to do with it. In this episode, we explore the power of laughter to calm us, bond us to one another, or to spread... like a virus. Along the way, we tickle some rats, listen in on a baby's first laugh, talk to a group of professional laughers, and travel to Tanzania to investigate an outbreak of contagious laughter".
Mortality:
http://www.wnyc.org/shows/radiolab/episodes/2007/06/15
"Is death a fact of life or a disease that can be cured (as some scientists claim)? We filter the modern search for the fountain of youth through personal stories of witnessing death...the death of a cell, the death of a loved one...and the aging of a society".
http://www.wnyc.org/shows/radiolab/episodes/2006/04/28
Where does our sense of right and wrong come from? We peer inside the brains of people contemplating moral dilemmas, watch chimps at a primate research center share blackberries, observe a playgroup of 3 year-olds fighting over toys, and tour the country's first penitentiary, Eastern State Prison. Also: the story of land grabbing, indentured servitude and slum lording in the fourth grade.
Memory and Forgetting:
http://www.wnyc.org/shows/radiolab/episodes/2007/06/08
"According to the latest research, remembering is an unstable and profoundly unreliable process. It’s easy come, easy go as we learn how true memories can be obliterated and false ones added. And Oliver Sacks joins us to tell the story of an amnesiac whose love for his wife and music transcend his 7 second memory".Laughter:
http://www.wnyc.org/shows/radiolab/episodes/2008/02/22
"We all laugh. But why? If you look closely, you'll find that humor has very little to do with it. In this episode, we explore the power of laughter to calm us, bond us to one another, or to spread... like a virus. Along the way, we tickle some rats, listen in on a baby's first laugh, talk to a group of professional laughers, and travel to Tanzania to investigate an outbreak of contagious laughter".
Mortality:
http://www.wnyc.org/shows/radiolab/episodes/2007/06/15
"Is death a fact of life or a disease that can be cured (as some scientists claim)? We filter the modern search for the fountain of youth through personal stories of witnessing death...the death of a cell, the death of a loved one...and the aging of a society".VALE EL TIEMPO...
(¡Bienvenidos podcasts recomendados!)
From A to Zyxt: Reading the Oxford English Dictionary
Pinta bien el libro del hombre que se leyó el Oxford English Dictionary en un año. La reseña del New York Times (que vale la pena leerla) dice:
"Shea’s book resurrects many lost, misshapen, beautifully unlucky words — words that spiraled out, like fast-decaying muons, after their tiny moment in the cloud chamber of English usage. There’s hypergelast (a person who won’t stop laughing), lant (to add urine to ale to give it more kick), obmutescence (willful speechlessness) and ploiter (to work to little purpose) — all good words to have on the tip of your tongue when, for example, you’re stopped for speeding.
Shea’s book offers more than exotic word lists, though. It also has a plot. “I feel as though I am eating the alphabet,” he writes halfway through, and you want him to make it to the end. This is the “Super Size Me” of lexicography".
Mas en
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/03/books/review/Baker-t.html?_r=1&8bu&emc=bu&oref=slogin
READING THE OED
One Man, One Year, 21,730 Pages.
By Ammon Shea.
223 pp. Perigee. $21.95.
Kermit Bale: What do Christian Bale and Kermit the Frog have in common?
Muy chistoso...
Gracias Meema!
Gracias Meema!
sábado, agosto 30, 2008
Y el Dr. W continúa: Un teaser por Muyi Neira
El amigo Muyi sigue con su serie de animación (infantil -6 o más- "but not really") llamada el Dr. W.
El doctor W es un "professional mystery solver" o "truth digger" que, en su programa de TV, indaga sobre misterios varios (y van desde el estornudo hasta las fobias).
Aqui les doy el link a un pequeño "teaser":
http://magoproduction.com/contenido/video/drw_teaser.html
Y más sobre el Dr. W:
http://magoproduction.com/dr_w/index2.html
Synopsis
Dr. W is a delirious Doctor who's always searching for the truth of natural facts of life. He hosts a general knowledge TV Show and on each episode he explains things in his own funny, ironical and sarcastic way, being very persistent and not afraid to do whatever it takes to get to the bottom of life's mysteries...
Technical info
3D animation serie
Color
26x4 - age: 6+
martes, junio 17, 2008
martes, junio 10, 2008
domingo, abril 13, 2008
Absolut Mexico
In this image released by the Mexican advertising firm of Teran/TBWA on Monday April 7, 2008, an advertisement created for Swedish Absolut Vodka which ran in Mexico, shows a map of the border of Mexico and the United States where it stood before the Mexican-American War of 1848. The Absolut vodka company apologized for the ad campaign amid angry calls for a boycott by U.S. consumers. (AP Photo/Teran/TBWA)..
jueves, marzo 20, 2008
Vampire Weekend M79
Descubrí esta canción hace poco y gustó.
No existe el video pero en este link de youtube se puede oir la canción.
No existe el video pero en este link de youtube se puede oir la canción.
miércoles, marzo 05, 2008
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