No tengo el honor de conocer personalmente a Jorge Elías González, pero desde hace por lo menos dos décadas había oído sobre la existencia de este campesino tolimense, poseedor de conocimientos y habilidades de eficacia comprobada para modificar el clima, o más precisamente el tiempo (meteorológicamente hablando) en el lugar determinado en donde requirieran sus trabajos.
— Diálogo de saberes y control del clima, por Gustavo Wilches-Chaux vía razonpublica.com
“You can either manufacture in comfortable, worker-friendly factories, or you can reinvent the product every year, and make it better and faster and cheaper, which requires factories that seem harsh by American standards,” said a current Apple executive. “And right now, customers care more about a new iPhone than working conditions in China.”
— Apple’s iPad and the Human Costs for Workers in China - NYTimes.com
Religion may have lost much of its power to explain our modern world but we still crave its emotional satisfactions
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A PARADOX of American higher education is this: The expectations of leading universities do much to define what secondary schools teach, and much to establish a template for what it means to be an educated man or woman. College campuses are seen as the source for the newest thinking and for the generation of new ideas, as society’s cutting edge. And the world is changing very rapidly. Think social networking, gay marriage, stem cells or the rise of China. Most companies look nothing like they did 50 years ago. Think General Motors, AT&T or Goldman Sachs. Yet undergraduate education changes remarkably little over time.
— What You (Really) Need to Know, Lawrence H. Summers - NYTimes.com
![At the moment, I’m looking again at the whole question of a recent African origin for modern humans—the leading idea over the last 20 years. This argues that we had a recent African origin, that we came out of Africa, and that we replaced all of the other human forms that were outside of Africa. But we’re having to re-evaluate that now because genetic data suggest that the modern humans who came out of Africa about 60,000 years ago probably interbred with Neanderthals, first of all, and then some of them later on interbred with another group of people called the Denisovans, over in south eastern Asia.
If this is so, then we are not purely of recent African origin.
via Rethinking “out Of Africa” | Conversation with Christopher Stringer [11.12.11] | Edge](http://30.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ly91v97Ogr1qzeivgo1_500.jpg "At the moment, I’m looking again at the whole question of a recent African origin for modern humans—the leading idea over the last 20 years. This argues that we had a recent African origin, that we came out of Africa, and that we replaced all of the other human forms that were outside of Africa. But we’re having to re-evaluate that now because genetic data suggest that the modern humans who came out of Africa about 60,000 years ago probably interbred with Neanderthals, first of all, and then some of them later on interbred with another group of people called the Denisovans, over in south eastern Asia.
If this is so, then we are not purely of recent African origin.
via Rethinking “out Of Africa” | Conversation with Christopher Stringer [11.12.11] | Edge")
At the moment, I’m looking again at the whole question of a recent African origin for modern humans—the leading idea over the last 20 years. This argues that we had a recent African origin, that we came out of Africa, and that we replaced all of the other human forms that were outside of Africa. But we’re having to re-evaluate that now because genetic data suggest that the modern humans who came out of Africa about 60,000 years ago probably interbred with Neanderthals, first of all, and then some of them later on interbred with another group of people called the Denisovans, over in south eastern Asia.
If this is so, then we are not purely of recent African origin.
via Rethinking “out Of Africa” | Conversation with Christopher Stringer [11.12.11] | Edge
‘A Universe From Nothing’ by Lawrence Krauss, AAI 2009 via richarddawkinsdotnet
TEDxYouth@Manchester 2011 - Julian Baggini - Is There A Real You?
(Source: youtube.com)
Los resultados corroboran en forma robusta nuestras hipótesis: el entrenamiento militar no tiene impacto significativo sobre la victimización de civiles, mientras el adoctrinamiento político la reduce.
— Aprender a Disparar vs. Aprender a Quién Disparar — Foco Económico
“No es que yo tenga el poder de mover a mi antojo la Naturaleza -dice el Hombre de la Lluvia, mientras acaricia unos metales que cuelgan en su cintura y deja ver una mano colmada de anillos adornados con piedras, que según comenta, ayudan en sus propósitos-. Es que el Supremo me dio permiso.”
via Salderrío » Blog Archive » El Hombre de la Lluvia
La tristeza profunda de no haber llevado una vida auténtica -sino la vida que otros querían- fue el lamento que más oyó Bronnie Ware durante los ocho años que cuidó y acompañó a cientos de personas mientras se morían.
— Las 5 culpas más comunes antes de morir - ELTIEMPO.COM
