Mês: Fevereiro 2015
[14] Lugares do Mundo. Montanhas Hallelujah
Em 2010, o pico de Zhangjiajie, conhecido como “Pilar do Céu e da Terra”, passou a chamar-se “Montanhas Hallelujah” (em alusão a Avatar e às Montanhas Flutuantes). As montanhas de Tianzi e o Zhangjiajie National Forest Park situam-se na província de Hunan, China e são Património Mundial desde 1992. O local é conhecido pelos mais de 3.000 pilares rochosos que se elevam em meio a uma densa vegetação e chegam a ter 200 metros de altura.
Tim Minchin Nine lessons
- You don’t have to have a dream.
- Don’t seek happiness.
- Remember, it’s all luck.
- Exercise.
- Be hard on your opinions.
- Be a teacher.
- Define yourself by what you love.
- Respect people with less power than you.
- Don’t rush.
Tim’s Nine lessons. O discurso do Honorary Degree of Doctor of Letters. Bem humorado, metafórico, sábio. A 9 é mais “don’t panic” A ideia de romance (“you soon be death”) ou a sequência de recomendações depois das nove lições soam tão bem como o tom em que as diz…
Do Netherlands Centre for Ethics and Health (CEG), a quem interesse
English translations of the reports ‘Lifestyle influencing: between paternalism and neglect’ (2014) and ‘Lifestyle differentiation in health insurance. An overview the of ethical arguments’ (2013) are now available on the website of the Netherlands Centre for Ethics and Health.
Lifestyle influencing: between paternalism and neglect (2014) Should the government, employers and insurers take steps to promote healthier lifestyles? The desirability of influencing lifestyle is a regular topic of debate. This report charts the arguments used in the public debate over influencing lifestyle and nannying, the different positions in this debate and the pros and cons of influencing lifestyle. The full report, together with a summary of the report can be found on our website here:
http://www.ceg.nl/en/publications/lifestyle-influencing-between-paternalism-and-neglect
Lifestyle differentiation in health insurance. An overview of ethical arguments (2013)
Should people who smoke, work too hard, don’t exercise enough, drink alcohol, have unsafe sex, eat too much, play injury-prone sports or have another unhealthy lifestyle pay more in terms of premium, policy excess or individual contributions for basic health insurance? And should people who don’t do these things be rewarded? The ethical debate on these questions is topical and emotive. The aim of this report is to structure and assess the ethically relevant arguments in the debate on financial differentiation according to lifestyle in basic health insurance. The full report, together with a summary of the report can be found on our website here: http://www.ceg.nl/en/publications/lifestyle-differentiation-in-health-insurance.-an-overview-of-ethical-argum
[Lendo] 180 | Thomas Pole, In the Library, St James’s Square
“A Construção de Conhecimento sobre Políticas Públicas de Educação em Portugal.”
The Judge
Notável.
Judge Joseph Palmer: “You’re standing in one of the last great cathedrals in this country, built on the premise that you and you alone are responsible for the consequences of your actions. Do you have anything else to say for yourself?”
Defendant: “Yeah”
Hank Palmer: [whispering] “‘Yeah’ is not an affirmation…”
Judge Joseph Palmer: “‘Yeah’ is not an affirmation a man uses in court.”
(Doc Morris: Wow, this isn’t an act, is it? You really aren’t a pleasant person.) Hank Palmer: Right now? I’m a summer breeze. Once I subpoena you, get you on the stand and extract the truth from your ass like tree sap THEN you’ll realize in THAT moment, correct, I’m not a pleasant person.
Som de fundo: Eric Clapton, Tears in Heaven
# 284… bibliofilia
Citação do dia
« L’attitude la plus ancienne, et qui repose sans doute sur des fondements psychologiques solides puisqu’elle tend à réapparaître chez chacun de nous quand nous sommes placés dans une situation inattendue, consiste à répudier purement et simplement les formes culturelles : morales, religieuses, sociales, esthétiques, qui sont les plus éloignées de celles auxquelles nous nous identifions. « Habitudes de sauvages », « cela n’est pas de chez nous », « on ne devrait pas permettre cela », etc., autant de réactions grossières qui traduisent ce même frisson, cette même répulsion, en présence de manières de vivre, de croire ou de penser qui nous sont étrangères. Ainsi l’Antiquité confondait-elle tout ce qui ne participait pas de la culture grecque (puis gréco-romaine) sous le même nom de barbare ; la civilisation occidentale a ensuite utilisé le terme de sauvage dans le même sens. Or derrière ces épithètes se dissimule un même jugement : il est probable que le mot barbare se réfère étymologiquement à la confusion et à l’inarticulation du chant des oiseaux, opposées à la valeur signifiante du langage humain ; et sauvage, qui veut dire « de la forêt », évoque aussi un genre de vie animale, par opposition à la culture humaine. Dans les deux cas, on refuse d’admettre le fait même de la diversité culturelle ; on préfère rejeter hors de la culture, dans la nature, tout ce qui ne se conforme pas à la norme sous laquelle on vit. […] En refusant l’humanité à ceux qui apparaissent comme les plus « sauvages » ou « barbares » de ses représentants, on ne fait que leur emprunter une de leurs attitudes typiques. Le barbare, c’est d’abord l’homme qui croit à la barbarie. »
Innovation, Ilustração de Kate O’Hara
Som de fundo: Hey Jude
Um dos meus temas preferidos dos icónicos Beatles, aqui com Paul McCartney, Elton John, Eric Clapton, Sting, Phil Collins, Mark Knopfler.
Hey Jude, don’t make it bad
Take a sad song and make it better
Remember to let her into your heart
Then you can start to make it better
Hey Jude, don’t be afraid
You were made to go out and get her
The minute you let her under your skin
Then you begin to make it better
And anytime you feel the pain, hey Jude, refrain
Don’t carry the world upon your shoulders
For well you know that it’s a fool who plays it cool
By making his world a little colder
Nah nah nah nah nah nah nah nah nah
Hey Jude, don’t let me down
You have found her, now go and get her
Remember to let her into your heart
Then you can start to make it better
So let it out and let it in, hey Jude, begin
You’re waiting for someone to perform with
And don’t you know that it’s just you, hey Jude, you’ll do
The movement you need is on your shoulder
Nah nah nah nah nah nah nah nah nah yeah
Hey Jude, don’t make it bad
Take a sad song and make it better
Remember to let her under your skin
Then you’ll begin to make it
Better better better better better better, oh