Imagine that tomorrow, Britain decides to define itself as an English state, or a Christian English state. How long will it exist, your kingdom? Great Britain? How long? If it defines itself, not as a state, a kingdom of all the British but only of the English. How would the Scotts feel? How would the Welsh feel? How would the children of the emigrants that became British citizens feel? They would feel like Arab israelis are feeling in Israel. They are living, walking, dying in a state that considers itself the state of Woody Allen, not of them. [...] Continuing to be a Jew, today, in Israel, is immoral, because a Jew in the state of Israel is a privileged citizen. And I don't speak about the occupied territories... 47 years... A population without any political or civic rights. [...] If I define myself as a Jew, because of the past, because of the memory... in some way the nazis won. Why? Because they consider the Jews as an essentialist figure in History."
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How I Stopped Being a Jew
In search of a framework of reference
"All these brilliant people [...] felt that they were trapped by the current narratives around giftedness and high intelligence. Some of them said, 'you know, I can't even talk about myself because the minute I use these words people have a preconceived notion and I can't bust my way out '"
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Ver também: The Talent of Being Inconvenient e IHBV
Keeping markets in their proper place... Moray reinvigorating public discourse
Economics should be seen as a sub-field, as a branch of moral and political philosophy.
What's missing is engaging with big ethical questions. Questions about the right way of valuing goods and social practices. So... Why do we shrink from this?
Morally invigorate the terms of public discourse. To overcome the bad habit of outsourcing our moral judgements to markets what we need is a politics of mutual respect that engages with competing views, including competing moral and even spiritual conceptions.
Nuclear, yes please
"The anti-nuclear movement to which I once belonged has misled the world about the impacts of radiation on human health. The claims we have made are ungrounded in science, unsupportable when challenged and wildly wrong. We have done other people, and ourselves, a terrible disservice."
Here
Why I changed my mind about nuclear power | Michael Shellenberger | TEDxBerlin
Freedom of Thought Requires Free Media
"We grew up to be consumers of Media. Now Media is consuming us. The things we read watch us read them. The things we listen to, listen to us listen to them."
re:publica 2012 - Eben Moglen - Freedom of Thought Requires Free Media
Anarchism Triumphant: "This paper shows why free software, far from being a marginal participant in the commercial software market, is the vital first step in the withering away of the intellectual property system." - here
Testimonial injustice / The Credibility Gap / How communities evaluate knowledge
"testimonial injustice, wherein a speaker receives an unfair deficit of credibility from a hearer owing to prejudice on the hearer's part."
Aqui
The Credibility Gap: How Sexism Shapes Human Knowledge | Soraya Chemaly | TEDxBarcelonaWomen
It's a man's world...but what does that mean? Today, when you Google "Are Women...?" the most likely suggested answer you'll get is "Evil." What does the suppression of women's experiences and knowledge in culture and media mean in terms of human understanding? How does a global suppression of women's experiences, perspectives and storytelling result in injustice and inequality? This talk dives into the question of what male-centered culture really means.
Defining Implicit Bias:
Also known as implicit social cognition, implicit bias refers to the attitudes or stereotypes that affect our understanding, actions, and decisions in an unconscious manner. These biases, which encompass both favorable and unfavorable assessments, are activated involuntarily and without an individual’s awareness or intentional control. Residing deep in the subconscious, these biases are different from known biases that individuals may choose to conceal for the purposes of social and/or political correctness. Rather, implicit biases are not accessible through introspection.
Aqui
The Ten Words Every Girl Should Know: Stop interrupting me; I just said that; No explanation needed.
"You cannot be a feminist unless you have a sense of humour! It's a rule."
Soraya Chemaly
The Universe in Verse - 2018 - The science of the Earth / Holy stardust!!
The Universe in Verse 2018: full show from Maria Popova on Vimeo.
"Celebrating science through poetry with an element of protest to remind us just how vital the truth and beauty are to human life, to civic life, to our flourishing as individuals, as a community and as a species."
Links:
Maria Mitchell (1818-1889) - astrónoma
Rachel Carson (1907-1964) - bióloga marinha. Mais aqui.
Maya Angelou - poetisa e bióloga
Denise Levertov (1923-1997) - poetisa
Natalie Batalha (1966) - astrónoma
James Gleick (1954) - autor de ciência
Terrance Hayes (1971) - poeta
Marie Howe (1950) - poetisa
Amy M. Homes (1961) - poetisa
Jane Hirshfield (1953) - poetisa
Kelli Anderson - designer
Robin Wall Kimmerer (1953) - botânica
Poems:
A Brave and Startling Truth
Sojourns in the Parallel World
World Below the Brine
Renascence
The Fish in the Stone
Cutting Greens
The Singularity
The Explorers
Optimism
Time is memory
Mais uma receita para ludibriar as armadilhas cognitivas.
Para obter um crescimento exponencial de felicidade, contribuindo para um aumento da eficiência termodinâmica.
If time is memory, and we want more time... Then what we want is, more memories! Good ones preferably...
Time is memory and you control it | Lila Davachi
Remembering memories, and happiness vs well being
The riddle of experience vs. memory | Daniel Kahneman
The experiencing self lives it's life continuously. And it has moments of experience one after the other.
What happens to these moments? ... The psychological present is said to be 3 seconds long...
– They are lost forever. Most of them don't leave a trace. Most of them are completely ignored by the remembering self.
What defines a story are changes, significant moments and endings. Endings are very, very important.
The biggest difference between the experiencing self and the remembering self is the handling of time.
Time, has very little impact on the story.
But... It's the remembering self that makes decisions... We go on vacations in the service of the remembering self.
Why do we put so much weight on memory, relative to the weight we put on experience?
So... The two selves bring up two concepts of happiness.
The happiness of the remembering self is not about how happily a person lives. It's about how satisfied or pleased a person is when that person thinks about her life.
The main lesson that we (researchers) have learnt is that they're REALLY different. You can know how satisfied a person is with their life, and that really doesn't teach you much about how happily they're living their life.
We know that happiness is mainly being satisfied with people that we like. Spending time with people that we like. There are other pleasures but this is dominant.
We should not think of happiness as a substitute for well being. It is a completely different notion.
It is very difficult to think straight about well being.
We do not attend to the same things when we think about life and when we actually live.
IoT
Minds + Machines: Insights from John Flannery on GE’s Digital Transformation
Everything you need to know about the industrial internet of things: here
C40 & Siemens │walking the talk for sustainable cities
Sieman's Sustainable Cities: here
System of Systems
IBM's Smarter Planet: here
All mentioned in "Zero Marginal Cost Society" (pg 17), by Jeremy Rifkin.
