Vuelta por el universo

Lo que hace una gota de agua

2011-10-20T11:21:00.003-08:00

Politically incorrect ads

2011-10-06T14:59:00.002-08:00

Parisian Love

2011-10-06T05:47:00.002-08:00

El problema de Escala en el pesebre colombiano

2010-12-01T06:35:00.000-09:00

Depression

2010-10-20T17:55:00.001-08:00

Tomada en JFK

Vietnam y Camboya: Mujeres en piyama

2010-10-13T06:53:00.000-08:00

Una de las cosas que más me extrañó en mi viaje a Vietnam y a Camboya fue la cantidad de mujeres en piyama que ví en la calle. Habría que volver y hacer un libro de fotos.

Para ver más fotos de mi viaje:

http://picasaweb.google.com/camilasegura/HoChiMinh?feat=directlink

Jill Bolte Taylor's stroke of insight

2010-08-17T22:02:00.000-08:00

Gringadas

2010-08-17T21:56:00.001-08:00

El amor y la amistad, según Borges

2010-07-15T17:58:00.001-08:00

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Aunque no estoy en total acuerdo con que la amistad pueda prescindir de las confidencias...

Japon!!

2010-05-05T17:02:00.004-08:00

El celular

2010-03-18T15:10:00.000-08:00

Descubrimiento tardío pero valioso.

We got that B-Roll- Funny

2010-02-04T17:39:00.002-09:00

One Sentence. True Stories, told in one sentence.

2010-01-31T17:43:00.002-09:00

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."

Then and Now

2010-01-11T14:57:00.000-09:00

To see the pics in a decent size go to www.funnyjunk.com/funny_pictures/131311/Then%2Band%2BNow/

Comunas, Favelas, Slums

2010-01-10T16:39:00.002-09:00

"If we tell people about our houses, will anyone believe us?"

Nagamma Shilpiri, Mumbai

See the project http://www.theplaceswelive.com/

40 years later...

2010-01-10T16:30:00.002-09:00

Do you see a baby?

2010-01-10T16:29:00.002-09:00

Irony

2010-01-09T19:03:00.002-09:00

Shalom Auslander

2010-01-09T08:35:00.011-09:00

"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

Same sex marriage

2010-01-09T08:20:00.000-09:00

The Online Television Museum from the UK -TVARKk

2010-01-08T15:11:00.004-09:00

Increíble esta colección gratuita de televisión... ¿Algún día podremos tener nuestra colección colombiana?

http://www.tv-ark.org.uk/

Only in Florida.... (or not? please confirm)

2010-01-08T15:09:00.000-09:00

World's highest standard of living

2010-01-06T16:37:00.000-09:00

The arrow of time by Diego Goldberg

2010-01-06T16:27:00.004-09:00

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...

MISSING FRIEND

2009-12-24T22:42:00.002-09:00

X-MAS WITH HITLER

2009-12-24T22:40:00.000-09:00

DELICIAS FAMILIARES

2009-12-24T22:23:00.001-09:00

LOOKING GOOD...

2009-12-24T22:21:00.002-09:00

PRADA Y DOLCE & GABBANA

2009-12-24T22:18:00.000-09:00

Elephant Paints Self Portrait- INSANE

2009-12-24T22:09:00.001-09:00

Elephant Paints Self Portrait @ Yahoo! Video

Last X-Mas...

2009-12-22T19:57:00.000-09:00

Platon taking pictures of world leaders at UN this past september

2009-12-02T14:18:00.003-09:00

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

Prospero's Daughter: Lullaby for Cami (video)

2009-12-01T12:18:00.000-09:00

Prospero's Daughter: Lullaby for Cami (video)

WNYC - Radiolab » Killing Babies, Saving the World

2009-11-25T16:12:00.000-09:00

WNYC - Radiolab » Killing Babies, Saving the World

Berlin Tetris!

2009-11-03T14:02:00.001-09:00

Berlin Block Tetris from Sergej Hein on Vimeo.

Will humans ever stop fighting wars? RadioLab

2009-10-27T16:38:00.002-08:00

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

Mad World by Michael Andrews and Gary Jules

2009-10-21T11:09:00.002-08:00

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.

No one seems to be impressed, but I am...

2009-10-21T10:57:00.000-08:00

Sum, a short by RadioLab

2009-10-01T15:58:00.003-08:00

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/

Moments. A RadioLab visual experiment.

2009-10-01T15:56:00.001-08:00

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.

Children and their secrets, Louis CK

2009-09-26T19:44:00.001-08:00

Cinnabon, Louis CK

2009-09-26T19:35:00.000-08:00

Jokes.com

Louis C.K. - Getting a Cinnabon

comedians.comedycentral.com

Joke of the Day

Stand-Up Comedy

Free Online Games

Shameless, Louis CK

2009-09-26T19:34:00.000-08:00

Se encabronó el bato (El auto fantástico en Mexicano)

2009-09-25T18:18:00.000-08:00

Gracias a Jorge

Thriller!!!!

2009-09-25T18:13:00.000-08:00

INCREIBLE... Celulares

2009-09-25T17:33:00.001-08:00

Maruja Parte I- Y España, claro... como no

2009-09-05T20:07:00.002-08:00

Gracias a Lascano.

Kimberley Mapping Projections

2009-09-05T19:10:00.001-08:00

I still need to find out more about this...
Just saw it and loved it.

Hey Jude by Korean Baby

2009-09-05T19:09:00.002-08:00

Gracias a Mario.

After Birth- Radio Lab shorts

2009-09-01T14:22:00.003-08:00

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/

Staying Alive by Radio Lab

2009-07-03T07:59:00.003-08:00

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..

GENIALIDAD DE LA INGENIERÍA COLOMBIANA/ COLOMBIAN ENGINEERING

2009-06-26T18:02:00.003-08:00

ESCALERA ELÉCTRICA PARA NIÑOS -O ENANOS-.

SIGA NO MÁS POR AQUÍ...

UPS, ERROR...
Gracias a Daniel por mandármelas...

¿Ventana o Puerta?

2009-06-26T17:58:00.000-08:00

El trono.

2009-06-26T17:57:00.002-08:00

Una comunidad cercana

2009-06-26T17:51:00.002-08:00

SEXUAL HARASSMENT?

EN DONDE COME UNO COMEN TRES Y EN DONDE....

Garaje pa la moto

2009-06-26T17:49:00.000-08:00

Segundo Piso

2009-06-26T17:40:00.000-08:00

End the University as We Know It

2009-06-08T05:23:00.002-08:00

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.”

Happy Music: Fa Fa Fa de Datarock

2009-06-02T14:49:00.000-08:00

Ernesto Neto at the Armory in NYC May 2009

2009-05-28T08:54:00.000-08:00

2009-05-28T08:51:00.000-08:00

2009-05-28T08:49:00.000-08:00

Huele a clavos y canela y, además, es kid-friendly

2009-05-28T08:42:00.001-08:00

Of Montreal- Buena revelación- Happy Music

2009-05-10T07:53:00.001-08:00

¡COLOMBIA!

2009-04-18T07:13:00.006-08:00

Gracias a Toto por compartir las fotos

Perro sonámbulo

2009-04-11T08:44:00.001-08:00

Vamos Pastores vamos. Extreme Sheep Video

2009-04-11T08:37:00.002-08:00

Kittens -inspired by kittens

2009-02-15T17:14:00.002-09:00

MAHNAMAHNAMANA y SAX AND VIOLENCE- THE MUPPETS

2009-02-15T17:09:00.002-09:00

Para cuando M esté aburrida

Baby toss ritual -HORROR

2009-02-15T17:03:00.000-09:00

Star Wars according to a 3 year old

2009-02-15T17:01:00.000-09:00

La canción de los Simpsons a cuatro manos

2009-02-14T09:07:00.000-09:00

Después del dentista

2009-02-07T07:08:00.000-09:00

La nieve en New Mexico en nuestro paseo dicembrino

2009-01-23T18:20:00.003-09:00

Para ver más fotos de paseo por New Mexico, Arizona y Texas vayan a

http://picasaweb.google.com/camilasegura

The year 2008 in Photographs

2008-12-20T17:28:00.003-09:00

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)

Mas en http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2008/12/the_year_2008_in_photographs_p.html

Mark Ryden

2008-12-16T13:08:00.004-09:00

Gracias a Jess...

got to go right now!!!

2008-12-16T13:07:00.001-09:00

Sweter para la privacidad

2008-12-16T13:05:00.000-09:00

Feliz Navidad... (te desean los microondas)

2008-12-16T13:02:00.002-09:00

Bici para el invierno.... mira bien

2008-12-16T12:52:00.000-09:00

AYUDA

2008-12-16T12:51:00.000-09:00

Dislexia... ¡esperemos!

2008-12-13T08:52:00.000-09:00

Remembering Sarah Silverman in I am fucking Matt D

2008-12-13T08:45:00.001-09:00

El Google Zeitgeist de Colombia 2008

2008-12-13T08:22:00.002-09:00

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

ART WRESTLING WITH YOSHUA OKON AT ART BASEL IN MIAMI BEACH

2008-12-11T18:09:00.001-09:00

WILL WORK FOR CEREAL

2008-12-07T16:53:00.002-09:00

THE WEEE MAN

2008-11-27T04:59:00.005-09:00

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…

Matt Duffin

2008-11-25T12:35:00.005-09:00

These are done in ENCAUSTIC WAX by Matt Duffin.
Read more here...

Obama baby!!

2008-11-05T10:21:00.000-09:00

OBAMA 4th Nov 08

"Concerned Women for America" talk about Obama

2008-11-03T11:37:00.001-09:00

ES INVEROSIMIL...
Obama es un asesino de niños

The McCain-Palin Mob Part 2

2008-11-03T11:27:00.001-09:00

The McCain-Palin Mob

2008-11-03T11:22:00.000-09:00

Increible..

Verdi Traviata Choeur Bohemiens

2008-10-31T22:36:00.000-08:00

WHY WE DRINK- From Current TV.

2008-10-25T08:20:00.000-08:00

Genialidad

Buenos Aires

2008-10-25T08:08:00.002-08:00

Para más fotos mías tomadas en Buenos Aires: http://www.flickr.com/photos/camilasegura/

The Village Pet Store and Charcoal Grill

2008-10-10T06:58:00.007-08:00

ABOUT THE PET STORE:

http://www.woostercollective.com/2008/10/the_village_pet_store_and_charchoal_gril.html
http://thevillagepetstoreandcharcoalgrill.com/menu.html
http://thevillagepetstoreandcharcoalgrill.com/

War of the Social Networks (Facebook vs. My space vs. others)

2008-10-03T10:44:00.001-08:00

CUT COPY- TIME STAND STILL Video cortesia de catch22prod en You tube

2008-09-07T20:51:00.001-08:00

Buen grupo

Podcast Recomendado: Radio Lab (Press the wake up button)

2008-09-01T16:21:00.010-08:00

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

(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:

The (Multi) Universe(s):
http://blogs.wnyc.org/radiolab/2008/08/12/the-multi-universes/

"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".

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".

VALE EL TIEMPO...

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From A to Zyxt: Reading the Oxford English Dictionary

2008-09-01T04:06:00.004-08:00

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.