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05/03/2021

Photo by Donald Giannatti on Unsplash “The pre-Socratic Greek philosopher Parmenides taught that the only things that are real are things which never change… and the pre-Socratic Greek philosopher Heraclitus taught that everything changes.

Photo by Donald Giannatti on Unsplash “The pre-Socratic Greek philosopher Parmenides taught that the only things that are real are things which never change… and the pre-Socratic Greek philosopher …

18/02/2021

The country’s paramount leader is turning away from reforms that helped it grow and develop. That will have consequences beyond its borders. China’s economic “miracle” wasn’t that miraculous.

The country’s paramount leader is turning away from reforms that helped it grow and develop. That will have consequences beyond its borders.

14/02/2021

In the British filmmaker’s epic documentaries, the world as we know it is pulled back to reveal a complex web of history, technology and power.

23/12/2020

In the pursuit of surveillance as a service, Jeff Bezos is intent on recording even our moods. How much personal data is too much to give to Amazon? Here’s a tip: Don’t get into a car with your family and tell everyone that Jeff Bezos is listening through the device on your wrist.

In the pursuit of surveillance as a service, Jeff Bezos is intent on recording even our moods. How much personal data is too much to give to Amazon?

17/08/2020

“The dangerous time when mechanical voices, radios, telephones, take the place of human intimacies, and the concept of being in touch with millions brings a greater and greater poverty in intimacy and human vision,” Anaïs Nin wrote in her diary in 1946, decades before the internet as we know it

“A public library keeps no intentional secrets about its mechanisms; a search engine keeps many.”

26/07/2020

Whenever you read about the secrets of success, you’ll no doubt come across that well-known quote from Thomas Edison, that “genius is one percent inspiration, and ninety-nine percent perspiration”.

Boosting your ‘metacognition’ helps you reach your goals more easily. All it takes is developing a strategic mindset – something anyone can do.

20/04/2020

Se você for ao Google para fazer uma pesquisa rápida sobre “Futurismo”, provavelmente ficará confuso. Pois o termo é comumente associado a um movimento artístico que se originou na Itália, na primeira metade do século XX.

Originalmente publicado em blog.runrun.it

11/04/2020

The COVID-19 pandemic has forced millions of people to live under strict lockdown conditions, but the psychology of human behaviour predicts they will find it harder to stick to the rules the longer the situation continues.

Fear is a central emotional response during a pandemic and it's why most people have complied with lockdown conditions. But as anxiety eases and boredom sets in, people's resolution may fray.

02/04/2020

O coronavírus está colocando nosso sistema à prova. Ao que parece a Ásia controla melhor a epidemia do que a Europa. Em Hong Kong, Taiwan e Singapura há poucos infectados. Em Taiwan foram registrados 108 casos e 193 em Hong Kong.

Países asiáticos estão lidando melhor com essa crise do que o Ocidente. Enquanto lá se trabalha com dados e máscaras, aqui se chega tarde e fecham fronteiras

14/01/2020

Quatro jovens cientistas norte-americanos criaram pela primeira vez “máquinas viventes”, elaboradas com células animais e capazes de realizar tarefas muito simples.

Pesquisadores dos EUA apresentam organismos reprogramáveis, a meio caminho entre um robô e um ser vivo

02/01/2020

In the field of psychology, the image is canon: a child sitting in front of a marshmallow, resisting the temptation to eat it. If she musters up the willpower to resist long enough, she’ll be rewarded when the experimenter returns with a second marshmallow.

Personality traits such as patience and risk-aversion are not innate but a product of the type of society you’re born into