Dibuixar fà cent anys o més, un mono amb la cara de Darwin a l' etiqueta de teu producte, publicar que "la ciencia no se equivoca" somos el mejor... jà té collons
dilluns, 16 de febrer del 2009
realment els d'anis del mono tenien raó
Dibuixar fà cent anys o més, un mono amb la cara de Darwin a l' etiqueta de teu producte, publicar que "la ciencia no se equivoca" somos el mejor... jà té collons
No Guru (but keep the method)
Darwinism Must Die So That Evolution May Live
“You care for nothing but shooting, dogs and rat-catching,” Robert Darwin told his son, “and you will be a disgrace to yourself and all your family.” Yet the feckless boy is everywhere. Charles Darwin gets so much credit, we can’t distinguish evolution from him.
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Equating evolution with Charles Darwin ignores 150 years of discoveries, including most of what scientists understand about evolution. Such as: Gregor Mendel’s patterns of heredity (which gave Darwin’s idea of natural selection a mechanism — genetics — by which it could work); the discovery of DNA (which gave genetics a mechanism and lets us see evolutionary lineages); developmental biology (which gives DNA a mechanism); studies documenting evolution in nature (which converted the hypothetical to observable fact); evolution’s role in medicine and disease (bringing immediate relevance to the topic); and more.
By propounding “Darwinism,” even scientists and science writers perpetuate an impression that evolution is about one man, one book, one “theory.” The ninth-century Buddhist master Lin Chi said, “If you meet the Buddha on the road, kill him.” The point is that making a master teacher into a sacred fetish misses the essence of his teaching. So let us now kill Darwin.
That all life is related by common ancestry, and that populations change form over time, are the broad strokes and fine brushwork of evolution. But Darwin was late to the party. His grandfather, and others, believed new species evolved. Farmers and fanciers continually created new plant and animal varieties by selecting who survived to breed, thus handing Charles Darwin an idea. All Darwin perceived was that selection must work in nature, too.
In 1859, Darwin’s perception and evidence became “On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or The Preservation of Favored Races in the Struggle for Life.” Few realize he published 8 books before and 10 books after “Origin.” He wrote seminal books on orchids, insects, barnacles and corals. He figured out how atolls form, and why they’re tropical.
Credit Darwin’s towering genius. No mind ran so freely, so widely or so freshly over the hills and vales of existence. But there’s a limit to how much credit is reasonable. Parking evolution with Charles Darwin overlooks the limits of his time and all subsequent progress.
Science was primitive in Darwin’s day. Ships had no engines. Not until 1842, six years after Darwin’s Beagle voyage, did Richard Owen coin the term “dinosaur.” Darwin was an adult before scientists began debating whether germs caused disease and whether physicians should clean their instruments. In 1850s London, John Snow fought cholera unaware that bacteria caused it. Not until 1857 did Johann Carl Fuhlrott and Hermann Schaaffhausen announce that unusual bones from the Neander Valley in Germany were perhaps remains of a very old human race. In 1860 Louis Pasteur performed experiments that eventually disproved “spontaneous generation,” the idea that life continually arose from nonliving things.
Science has marched on. But evolution can seem uniquely stuck on its founder. We don’t call astronomy Copernicism, nor gravity Newtonism. “Darwinism” implies an ideology adhering to one man’s dictates, like Marxism. And “isms” (capitalism, Catholicism, racism) are not science. “Darwinism” implies that biological scientists “believe in” Darwin’s “theory.” It’s as if, since 1860, scientists have just ditto-headed Darwin rather than challenging and testing his ideas, or adding vast new knowledge.
Using phrases like “Darwinian selection” or “Darwinian evolution” implies there must be another kind of evolution at work, a process that can be described with another adjective. For instance, “Newtonian physics” distinguishes the mechanical physics Newton explored from subatomic quantum physics. So “Darwinian evolution” raises a question: What’s the other evolution?
Into the breach: intelligent design. I am not quite saying Darwinism gave rise to creationism, though the “isms” imply equivalence. But the term “Darwinian” built a stage upon which “intelligent” could share the spotlight.
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diumenge, 15 de febrer del 2009
al tanto amb el que dius (del guardian)
Chinese blogger Xu Lai stabbed in Beijing bookshop
Audience members apparently heard one of the attackers accuse him of 'offending' people, suggesting he was targeted because of his outspoken blog
- guardian.co.uk, Sunday 15 February 2009 17.45 GMT
- Article history
A well-known Chinese blogger and novelist is recovering after he was stabbed by unidentified assailants as he gave a talk in a Beijing bookshop this weekend.
Audience members apparently heard one of the attackers accuse him of "offending" people, leading friends and readers to suggest he was targeted because of his outspoken blog.
Xu Lai was rushed to hospital following the attack on Saturday afternoon, but given the all clear following an emergency operation. He remained in hospital today.
Xu works as a journalist, but is best known for his edgy, satirical blog ProState In Flames which covers many sensitive issues. It was shut down by censors last November, but he reopened it at another site.
According to the Southern Metropolis Daily newspaper, two men grabbed Xu shortly after he finished speaking and dragged him into the toilets. When his wife forced her way in, she saw that one was holding a dagger while the other one had a kitchen knife and was preparing to hack Xu's hand. The men fled from the One Way Street bookshop before anyone could catch them.
Guo Jianlong, a reporter and friend of Xu, said he noticed a commotion and spotted the writer holding his stomach and leaning against the wall.
According to various reports, the attackers said either "We're here for revenge," "You'll know better than to offend people next time," or "You brought this on yourself. You know why you're doing this, don't you?"
His friend and fellow blogger Hecaitou wrote on Twitter: "Xu Lai doesn't have any private enemies."
According to the Southern Metropolis Daily he described Xu as "a low-key sort of person who wouldn't provoke anyone. However, there are many things on his blog that can touch a nerve and he has probably made enemies that way."
As news spread rapidly via websites, bulletin boards and Twitter, many people expressed fears that Xu had been targeted for his writing.
One commenter asked: "My god.are we living in Wen Yiduo's era?" – in reference to the poet and activist assassinated in 1945 after a public talk.
Another wrote, in the comments section of Xu's blog: "Comrades, netizens, such a despicable trick cannot stop the progress of Chinese people toward freedom and democracy."
But others said people should not leap to conclusions about the cause of the attack, which is under investigation by the police.
divendres, 13 de febrer del 2009
perdre o trobar cadira
Crec que aquesta imatge descriu per a molts, per la majoría, la idea de treballar (ocupar la cadira).
dijous, 12 de febrer del 2009
Tabac "underground" del Center for Public Integrity
The illicit trafficking of tobacco is a multibillion-dollar business today, fueling organized crime and corruption, robbing governments of needed tax money, and spurring addiction to a deadly product. So profitable is the trade that tobacco is the world’s most widely smuggled legal substance. This booming business now stretches from counterfeiters in China and renegade factories in Russia to Indian reservations in New York and warlords in Pakistan and North Africa. Read more...
Ostres!!! les foques o els toros, ja ho tinc assumit, pero el foie? encara ho he de interioritzar
Topless protestors urge end to foie gras 'cruelty'
Thursday, 12 February 2009
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Campaigners for PETA protesting against Selfridges department store's sale of foie gras are photographed by onlookers on London Bridge
dimecres, 11 de febrer del 2009
hosti, quin greu em sap... (de l'avui d'avui)
Aznar, a l'atur
L'expresident del govern espanyol José María Aznar ha perdut la seva feina com a membre del consell assessor del fons britànic de capital risc Centaurus Capital a causa de la crisi
La crisi econòmica no entén de noms ni de càrrecs i ha enviat a l'atur el mateix José María Aznar. Segons publica avui la versió electrònica de The Guardian, l'expresident del govern espanyol José María Aznar ha perdut la seva ocupació com a membre del consell assessor del fons britànic de capital risc Centaurus Capital.
En concret, el diari, que no precisa les seves fonts, informa que el fons ha decidit prescindir del seu consell assessor com a resultat de la crisi creditícia. A més d'Aznar, aquest òrgan assessor també incloïa, entre altres, l'exministre d'Economia i actual portaveu d'empresa del Partit Conservador del Regne Unit, Kenneth Clarke, que igualment ha perdut la feina.
Aquest òrgan assessor també incloïa, entre uns altres, l'exministre d'Economia i actual portaveu d'empresa del Partit Conservador del Regne Unit, Kenneth Clarke, que igualment ha perdut la feina
Contractats l'any 2007, l'expresident espanyol i Clarke van ser fitxats per Centaurus Capital per "aportar experiència internacional, més que per obrir portes i facilitar contactes de negocis", segons The Guardian.
Des de la firma financera, amb seu a Londres, un portaveu ni va desmentir ni va confirmar la notícia i es va limitar a declarar: "No farem cap comentari sobre això".
Després de deixar el poder el 2004, Aznar, recorda el diari, s'ha convertit en un "visitant habitual" de Londres, on resideixen la seva filla, Ana Aznar, i el seu marit, Alejandro Agag, que és soci de Flavio Briatore, patró de l'escuderia francesa de Fórmula 1 Renault i accionista del club de futbol londinenc Queens Park Rangers.
Fundat l'any 2000, Centaurus Capital, que gestiona uns actius de més de 4.500 milions de dòlars (una mica més de 3.475 milions d'euros al canvi actual), està patint les conseqüències de la crisi financera internacional igual que altres firmes del sectorTours xinesos als USA per comprar casa...
BEIJING — A special Chinese tour group is heading to the United States later this month to go bargain hunting for houses at foreclosure prices.
More than 40 affluent house hunters from across China will begin a trip to Boston, New York, San Francisco and Los Angeles on Feb. 24 in search of cheap homes to buy. Their goal: to find investment property and housing their children could use when they go to the USA to study or work. Their budget: $300,000 to $800,000 apiece.
"U.S. house prices are lower now, and we'll also be looking at low-price houses auctioned off by the courts," says Zhao Xinyu, a manager at Soufun.com, China's leading real estate website and the trip's organizer.
This is the first overseas buying trip for the real estate firm, whose name in Chinese means "search house" and which has organized house-hunting trips inside China. It may not be the last.
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una nova via per la "okupació" la tenda cotxe
En DS ou en Mini, ce que vous voudrez : c’est vous qui construisez votre tente de “camouflage” automobile! Puisque les campeurs urbains et les “gens du voyage” ne sont pas les bienvenus, ils se réapproprient l’espace qu’on veut bien accorder aux voitures. Reste juste le parking à payer…
Un concept expérimenté depuis 5 ans et présenté dans une expo itinérante par Michael Rakowitz. Artiste et universitaire de Chicago spécialiste de l’habitat nomade.
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