Monday, November 30, 2015
Saturday, November 28, 2015
ghalib the afgan fighter
http://mobile.nytimes.com/2015/11/28/world/asia/once-inguantanamo-afghan-now-leads-war-against-taliban-and-isis.html?_r=0
Friday, November 27, 2015
In France we have a saying – stupid and evil. I found them more stupid than evil. That is not to understate the murderous potential of stupidity.
http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/nov/16/isis-bombs-hostage-syria-islamic-state-paris-attacks?CMP=share_btn_fb
Wednesday, November 25, 2015
dna farming revolution europe
http://mobile.nytimes.com/2015/11/24/science/agriculture-linked-to-dna-changes-in-ancient-europe.html
Sunday, November 22, 2015
aliens and stars
http://m.repubblica.it/mobile/r/sezioni/scienze/2015/11/21/news/silenzio_dalla_stella_dei_misteri_niente_alieni_almeno_per_ora-127034310?ref=m|home|vaschetta_6_ambiente|pos_2
Saturday, November 21, 2015
esempio del politicamente corretto made in geneva boldrini
arrabbiati perché non amati. dagli amore allora
http://voxnews.info/2014/09/26/boldrini-su-isis-arrabbiati-perche-non-abbastanza-amati/
Friday, November 20, 2015
modernism and pornography
Some years ago, Justice Potter Stewart of the U.S. Supreme Court declared that while he could not define pornography, he knew it when he saw it. Noteworthy modernist works, whatever their genre or their claim on the world's attention, leave precisely that impression.
le ver est dans le fruit , lettre ouverte aux mussulmans
http://www.lefigaro.fr/vox/societe/2015/11/19/31003-20151119ARTFIG00002-abdennour-bidar-les-musulmans-doivent-passer-a-la-responsabilite-de-l-autocritique.php
Il ne suffit plus de dire «ne faisons pas l'amalgame entre islam et islamisme». Comme je l'ai écrit dans maLettre ouverte au monde musulman, les musulmans du monde entier doivent passer du réflexe de l'autodéfense à la responsabilité de l'autocritique. Car comme le dit le proverbe français, «le ver est dans le fruit»:
Thursday, November 19, 2015
brazil cheap
http://www.wsj.com/articles/foreign-investors-buy-into-brazil-lead-m-a-activity-1447951569?mod=e2tw
winnicot, psychotherapy
http://www.internazionale.it/video/2015/06/12/il-modo-migliore-per-lasciarsi
taqiya ou art de la dissimulation
http://www.lefigaro.fr/actualite-france/2015/11/19/01016-20151119ARTFIG00211-comment-les-freres-abdeslam-ont-manie-l-art-de-la-dissimulation.php
Or, pour protéger la foi musulmane et les musulmans, le prophète a admis que les croyants pouvaient cacher leur foi pour ne pas être martyrisés, explique auFigaro l'islamologue Mathieu Guidère, professeur à l'université de Toulouse II. Cette théologie de la dissimulation a ensuite été reprise et codifiée par les califes qui lui ont succédé, avant de tomber en désuétude à l'époque moderne.» Elle sera ressuscitée au début du XXe siècle par les chiites jusqu'à l'établissement de la République islamique en Iran. «La taqiya, reformatée par Sayyid Qotb et Maulana Maududi, deux idéologues inspirateurs de la mouvance djihadiste, va ensuite se déplacer dans le monde sunnite», décrypte Mathieu Guidère.
non a nome mio, il senso civico
http://milano.corriere.it/notizie/cronaca/15_novembre_18/varese-minuto-silenzio-francia-alunne-islamiche-escono-dall-aula-210a8cf4-8e10-11e5-ae73-6fe562d02cba.shtml
houellebecq et la democratie directe
http://www.corriere.it/cultura/15_novembre_19/attentati-parigi-houellebecq-io-accuso-hollande-difendo-francesi-eafac2b2-8e84-11e5-aea5-af74b18a84ea.shtml
j accuse d we houellebecq
http://www.lefigaro.fr/livres/2015/11/19/03005-20151119ARTFIG00124-attentats-le-j-accuse-hollande-de-michel-houellebecq.php
Sunday, November 15, 2015
Wednesday, November 11, 2015
prosecco inelastic supply price
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-11-11/record-prosecco-supply-no-relief-for-wine-lovers-as-tanks-filled
Tuesday, November 10, 2015
andre gluckmann , rip
http://www.corriere.it/cultura/15_novembre_10/morto-glucksmann-ultimo-articolo-per-corriere-d229101e-878a-11e5-91a7-6795c226a8af.shtml
Monday, November 9, 2015
Pinker language
Pinker further argued that since the ten most frequently occurring English verbs (be, have, do, say, make ...) are all irregular, while 98.2% of the thousand least common verbs are regular, there is a "massive correlation" of frequency and irregularity. He explains this by arguing that every irregular form, such as 'took', 'came' and 'got', has to be committed to memory by the children in each generation, or else lost, and that the common forms are the most easily memorized. Any irregular verb that falls in popularity past a certain point is lost, and all future generations will treat it as a regular verb instead.[23]
http://pinker.wjh.harvard.edu/articles/papers/Edinburgh.pdf
Pinker's research includes delving into human nature and what science says about it. In his interview on the Point of Inquiry podcast in 2007, he provides the following examples of what he considers defensible conclusions of what science says human nature is:
The sexes are not statistically identical; "their interests and talents form two overlapping distributions". Any policy that wants to provide equal outcomes for both men and women will have to discriminate against one or the other.
"Individuals differ in personality and intelligence." Even in a perfectly fair economic system, not everyone will have the same amount of wealth.
"People favor themselves and their families over an abstraction called society."
Humans are "systematically self deceived. Each one of us thinks of ourselves as more competent and benevolent than we are."
"People crave status and power"
He informs the listeners that one can read more about human nature in his book, Blank Slate
Pinker criticizes several widely held ideas about language – that it needs to be taught, that people's grammar is poor and getting worse with new ways of speaking, the Sapir–Whorf hypothesis that language limits the kinds of thoughts a person can have, and that other great apes can learn languages. Pinker sees language as unique to humans, evolved to solve the specific problem of communication among social hunter-gatherers. He argues that it is as much an instinct as specialized adaptative behavior in other species, such as a spider's web-weaving or a beaver's dam-building.
Sampson denies there is a language instinct, and argues that children can learn language because people can learn anything.[31] Others have sought a middle ground between Pinker's nativism and Sampson's culturalism.[32]
On the debate around The Blank Slate, Pinker called Thomas Sowell's book A Conflict of Visions "wonderful",[34] and explained that "The Tragic Vision" and the "Utopian Vision" are the views of human nature behind right- and left-wing ideologies.[34]
In The Stuff of Thought (2007), Pinker looks at a wide range of issues around the way words related to thoughts on the one hand, and to the world outside ourselves on the other. Given his evolutionary perspective, a central question is how an intelligent mind capable of abstract thought evolved: how a mind adapted to Stone Age life could work in the modern world. Many quirks of language are the result.[37]
Pinker is critical of theories about the evolutionary origins of language which argue that linguistic cognition might have evolved from earlier musical cognition. He sees language as being tied primarily to the capacity for logical reasoning, and speculates that human proclivity for music may be a spandrel — a feature not adaptive in its own right, but which has persisted through other traits which are more broadly practical, and thus selected for. In How the Mind Works, Pinker reiterates Immanuel Kant's view that music is not in itself an important cognitive phenomenon, but that it happens to stimulate important auditory and spatio-motoric cognitive functions. Pinker compares music to "auditory cheesecake", stating that "As far as biological cause and effect is concerned, music is useless". This argument has been rejected by Daniel Levitin and Joseph Carroll, experts in music cognition, who argue that music has had an important role in the evolution of human cognition.[38][39][40][41][42][43] In his book This Is Your Brain On Music, Levitin argues that music could provide adaptive advantage through sexual selection, social bonding, and cognitive development; he questions the assumption that music is the antecedent to language, as opposed to its progenitor, noting that many species display music-like habits that could be seen as precursors to human music.[44
In his view, it is more likely that human nature comprises inclinations toward violence and those that counteract them, the "better angels of our nature". He outlines six 'major historical declines of violence' which all have their own socio/cultural/economic causes:[46
] Edge.org ran a debate between Pinker and Elizabeth Spelke on gender and science.[65]
Hubris
For the ancient Greeks, hubris was the folly of a leader who through excessive self-confidence challenged the gods. It was always followed by peripeteia (a reversal of fortune) and, ultimately, nemesis (divine retribution). (Moon+ Reader v3.0.1, The Economist [Thu, 05 Nov 2015])
Victory generates defeat
One constant theme is how decisions were influenced by a misguided concept of racial superiority. Although at the turn of the century Japan was rapidly industrialising and had equipped itself with some of the best warships money could buy (cheerfully supplied by their ally, Britain), the Russians constantly underestimated them. It was surely folly to send a fleet 18,000 miles to the Far East to relieve besieged Port Arthur. When the Russians arrived, their ships and men were so exhausted that the faster Japanese ironclads, superbly commanded by Admiral Heihachiro Togo, were able to outmanoeuvre and destroy them. But in that smashing victory the seeds were sown that led inexorably to Hiroshima and Nagasaki 40 years later. (Moon+ Reader v3.0.1, The Economist [Thu, 05 Nov 2015])
Stella and koons
This aloofness is something Mr Stella relishes, claiming to have no interest in contemporary trends and dismissing Jeff Koons (to name one prominent target) as an artist for people with more money than taste. (Moon+ Reader v3.0.1, The Economist [Thu, 05 Nov 2015])
Sunday, November 8, 2015
lasers and new guns
Bloomberg - U.S. Wants to Avoid Second Cold War - or Hot War - With Russia http://bloom.bg/1PvcABx
Cern gianotti
http://www.corriere.it/cronache/15_novembre_08/gianotti-l-italiana-che-guida-cern-ragazziviaggiate-poi-tornate-4ea078a0-85e5-11e5-af91-bb1507114fbb.shtml
Saturday, November 7, 2015
Ero indigesto al sistema, claudio gentile
http://video.corriere.it/gentile-morde-ancora-zitto-maradona-eri-piu-cattivo-me-albertini-mi-ha-rovinato-carriera/c0b1c308-7e7f-11e5-b052-6950f62a050c
Friday, November 6, 2015
Thursday, November 5, 2015
Tuesday, November 3, 2015
Universe physics
http://www.economist.com/news/books-and-arts/21676741-pithy-elegant-explanation-life-we-know-it-universe-writ-small
Ma ci pensa - fa Mazzarelli -? Un clochard svizzero a Milano, roba da canzone di Jannacci. Noi ci fantasticavamo su, vuoi vedere che è un banchiere ridotto sul lastrico?". Magari fu solo colpa di Gröss, chissà .
http://www.gazzetta.it/Calcio/03-11-2015/ando-bagno-san-siro-poi-si-perse-11-anni-il-tifoso-torna-svizzera-130765711839.shtml
Monday, November 2, 2015
war of pleasure
presentable collection could be not just emblem assimilation means to it: disinterested aesthetic delight and social anxiety combined in varied mixtures. But we know enough about them to say that pining for social acceptability or ascent was rarely their dominant incentive: calculations of this kind were dwarfed by the lust after objects for their own sake, a fixation
Drama vs Melodrama in history
Essentially my series has persistently aimed at complicating the past, to rise above melodrama to the far subtler drama that is his tory. PETER GAY
Sunday, November 1, 2015
Blockchains bitcoin
Bitcoin’s blockchain ledger prevents double-spending and keeps track of transactions continuously. It is
what makes possible a currency without a central bank.
Blockchains are also the latest example of the unexpected fruitsofcryptography. Mathematical scramblingisused to boil
down an original piece ofinformation into a code, known as a hash. Any attempt to tamperwith any part ofthe blockchain is
apparent immediately—because the new hash will not match the old ones. In this way a science that keeps information se-
cret (vital for encrypting messages and online shopping and banking) is, paradoxically, also a tool for open dealing.......
The politically minded see the block-
chain reaching further than that. When co-
operatives and left-wingers gathered for
this year’s OuiShare Fest in Paris to discuss
ways that grass-roots organisations could
undermine giant repositories of data like
Facebook, the blockchain made it into al-
mosteveryspeech. Libertariansdream ofa
world where more and more state regula-
tions are replaced with private contracts
between individuals—contracts which
blockchain-based programming would
make self-enforcing......The idea of
making trust a matter of coding, rather
than ofdemocratic politics, legitimacy and
accountability, is not necessarily an ap-
pealing or empowering one.
At the same time, a world with record-
keeping mathematically immune to ma-
nipulation would have many benefits.
Evicted Ms Izaguirre would be betteroff; so
would many others in many other set-
tings. If blockchains have a fundamental
paradox, it is this: by offering a way of set-
ting the past and present in cryptographic
stone, they could make the future a very
different place. 7
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