O Leituras do Dia continua no ano novo - seu décimo quinto.
1.1.15
Serviçais em tempo real
In many ways, social class can be defined by the chores you don’t do. The rich have personal assistants, butlers, cooks, drivers. The middle class largely do their own errands — with the occasional babysitter, pizza boy, maybe a cleaner. The poor do their own chores, and the chores of other people.
Then came on-demand’s disruptive influence. The luxuries usually afforded to one-percenters now stretch to the urban upper-middle class, or so the technology industry cheers.
27.12.14
Aprendendo a contar
It’s hard to believe we are in greater danger today than we were during the two world wars, or during other perils such as the periodic nuclear confrontations during the Cold War, the numerous conflicts in Africa and Asia that each claimed millions of lives, or the eight-year war between Iran and Iraq that threatened to choke the flow of oil through the Persian Gulf and cripple the world’s economy.
How can we get a less hyperbolic assessment of the state of the world? Certainly not from daily journalism. News is about things that happen, not things that don’t happen.
23.12.14
Bons Presságios
A BBC está transmitindo uma adaptação radiofônica de Good Omens - que em português tem o equivocado título de Belas Maldições. Neil Gaiman relembra o processo de escrever o livro em parceria com Terry Prachett.
14.12.14
Onde comer em São Paulo
Um panorama da culinária sendo feita em São Paulo. Dos citados, troco o Sushi Yassu pelo Yamaga.
Um remédio para a homofobia?
On Friday, the journal Science published a buzzy new study suggesting that homophobia is more of a minor, curable malady than a chronic illness. For the study, researchers sent gay and straight canvassers into strongly anti-gay neighborhoods and directed them to converse with residents for about 20 minutes about why marriage equality mattered to them. The result: Residents’ support for gay equality increased considerably—and those residents who spoke with gay canvassers retained their pro-equality beliefs nine months after the conversation
8.12.14
No Future!
Para um gênero que supostamente se preocupa com o futuro, a ficção científica mainstream anda extremamente nostálgica, como demonstra o fato de mais três Star Wars vindo aí.
7.12.14
4.12.14
Ateísmo e a morte
A non-religious outlook does not hold the promise of immortality, but it does provide some relief. For example, I have no sense of being unfairly afflicted. I do not wonder what I have done to deserve this – and I most certainly do not think that anyone else is more deserving of it. Well, I can think of some, but that’s beside the point. The point is that no one has handed me these cards, and therefore I do not need to waste emotional capital pondering the injustice of my lot. I have simply pulled the short straw in the malignant mutation lottery.
Ser ateu em diferentes culturas
O problema da justiça divina é bem diferente nas religiões monoteístas e politeístas.
Porque a colonização do espaço é complicada
Today, the cheapest rockets available charge a little less than $1,000 to send 1 pound of material into low-earth orbit. Sending that pound to other planets, let alone the stars, would cost vastly more. To be sure, time and expense might be reduced by building space elevators and (should the laws of physics permit) taking advantage of handy wormholes. But the lesson of Zheng He remains: Exploration of distant lands will be a short-lived venture unless it yields something really, really valuable.
29.11.14
O que tem para jantar?
Memórias de comidas passadas, que praticamente não se comem mais. Num tempo em que pizza era uma comida exótica nos EUA.
Os 100 mais
Para comemorar seus cem anos, a New Republic selecionou as cem pessoas mais influentes do período.
27.11.14
Eu ando meio viciado em oxigênio
The Internet, after all, is a medium, not an activity in and of itself. If you spend your time gambling online, maybe you have a gambling addiction, not an Internet addiction. If you spend your time shopping online, maybe it’s a shopping addiction. “Some people have posited that the Internet is a vehicle and not a target of disorder,” Potenza said. Can you be addicted to a longing for virtual connectivity in the same way that you can be addicted to a longing for a drink?
25.11.14
24.11.14
Sushi e Cia
Como são feitas aquelas comidinhas falsas que ficam nas vitrines dos restaurantes japoneses. Trecho de um filme de Wim Wenders!
23.11.14
Para todas as suas necessidades heróicas
A 826 é uma ONG americana que dá oficinas de texto para crianças e jovens. Para arrecadar fundos, eles mantém lojas em diversas cidades americanas. Estive recentemente na Brooklyn Superhero Supply Store, que, como diz o nome, vende produtos destinados a super-heróis. A organização também tem outras lojas, dedicadas a espiões. viajantes espaciais, piratas e robôs. Estive em uma das lojas e fiz algumas fotos.
21.11.14
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