5 myths about technology
19
May
While technology may have dangers, this is not unique to it, all means that man uses can cause deviant behavior, 
addictions and consumerism, but almost everything we use is kind, from clothes, books and food, mobile phones, tablets and computers.
Information online as Infomoney and Olhar Digital released its myths, only one I repeat here, the idea that mobile phone use causes brain cancer, there is no evidence of this, just coincidences of people who have used very mobile and had cancer, which It is different from proving that this is the cause.
The other 4 important are: the computer usage difficult to read, in fact make a different reading on the computer, it is a little tiring continuously read on the computer, but whole pages should be avoided, but the reading of e-books is practice many readers, but there are also those who prefer books and those who use them.
Another myth is that young people would be less going to libraries because the digital world, did a post with Pew Research Internet Project site data showing that this is false.
The fourth myth is that through the virtual world is opposed to the real, that unfortunately even sociologists and serious thinkers spread, first this is a logical error because the virtual is not opposed to real, not unreal, but only “potential” towards possible, with a lack of knowledge of the meaning of the word that comes from virtus, which is the same rais of virtue.
The fifth myth is that technology somehow opposes the construction of the human being, or even of humanism or anything positive for man, that is unaware that throughout human history technology has always sought to help the man, of course there are instruments of war, the atomic bomb etc, that is destructive technology, but beware of generalizations, almost everything we use clothing to work instruments, almost everything suffers and suffers constant technological change in order to improve the instrument.
The fifth is a philosophical myth of the West, the idea that everything is object is negligible and should not prevent direct human relationship, now just think of things from day to day: clothes, objects of our home, our work, books and of course their own money and technological objects, they are “impregnated” of humanity because they are part of our relationship Others, of course can be used positively or not, but this decision is up to man
Tongue in pieces
18
May
First run in São Paulo the show “A lingua em pedaços” (tongue in pieces) a work written by the Spanish Juan Mayorga, what’s playing
on Friday, Saturday and Sunday at the Cultural Center Bank of Brazil talking about love, religion and misunderstanding, it’s about Teresa of Avila a nun who was also a poet and was proclaimed a saint by the Catholic church.
The theme of the Inquisition which is usually seen only by non-Christians, now seen from the inside as Teresa of Avila was also a victim of these processes and many, many people who believe they are victims of various types of exclusion because they are religious.
The play “The Language in Pieces” then shows a fictional encounter between religious and an inquisitor who accuses her of subversion and heresy; it is not inversion of values, but to show that true Christians to the inquisition was rather absurd, the very Galileo Galilei, few know was religious, and the life of his daughter, religious Virginia, is in the book “Galileo’s Daughter,” writer by Dava Sobel.
Besides writer, Santa Teresa founded seventeen convents of Discalced Carmelites throughout Spain and ahead of its time, it was persecuted by the conservative sectors of the late sixteenth century.
The actor Antony Pâmio that makes the fictional Inquisitor explains his character: “It’s theatrical Santa Teresa was in fact persecuted by the Church But that man was created in the show so that the text suggests that she suffered from this situation..” He explains the actor.
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It is good to discuss the issue of religion away from prejudices and fallacies.
How technology helps Nepal
15
May
The technology was effective in initial help of the first earthquake in Nepal, but the second earthquake two weeks seems to be more cruel, as if the first killed more than 8000 people, the earthquake this time was in regions distances near the town Namche Baazar, which is close to Mount Everest, one of the highest in the world.
What is claimed now is the lack of more comprehensive high-quality maps, especially in remote areas, which means it is necessary to coordinate a series of medical efforts, food and shelter, in more complicated remote areas.
One of the efforts is the Kathmandu Living Labs, that uses many volunteers to create digital maps of the country, signaling the roads, hospitals and other facilities to the aid get faster, the advantage is that now there are these rescue forces in the country, they need access to this information.
You can find coverage of trabalos the KLL (acronym of Living Labs) in various organs of the international press The NY Times, BBC,Nepali Times, My Republica, and Setopati attesting to the validity of laboratory
The site explains that the emphasis of this laboratory is “in is on cutting-edge Web 2.0 and participatory technologies que empower and engage citizens in working with government and development”.
Understand the case SwissLeaks
14
May
The name was created in association with the website that denounced the US secret data on a site that the net-activist Assange
built to disclose secret information, revealing little moral actions of many governments around the world, he was pursued and was arrested.
The SwissLeaks case actually began long before when in 2007 a list of 106 000 high-profile customers (read: a lot of money) have been identified in the bank’s accounts, involving politicians, people from the showbiz world, athletes, drug dealers and weapons, Herve Falciani was a former employee of the IT field who denounced the subsidiary HSBC Bank Switzerland.
At the time the British government and the French also identified several evaders and the names became known as the “Lagarde List” due to arrests and attempts to recover the funds in Greece, Spain, United States, Belgium and Argentina.
The French newspaper Le Monde had access to recent documents list and transferred to a consortium of journalists called ICIJ (International Consortium of Investigative Journalists) which released the data, and impressed the number of Brazilians involved.
Brazilian data included 5,500 secret accounts Brazilians, between individuals and companies, with a total balance of $ 7 billion (about US $ 20 billion Reais), with Brazilian companies participating in government projects, getting the famous Galvão Brazilian company.
A book that explains the investigative journalism was written by Paul Bradshaw “Scraping for Journalists” and is available in online acquis.
Emojis in defense of animals
13
May
Those emoticons representing animals, will now be using the animal rights NGO World Wide
Fund for Nature (WWF), which launched yesterday (12/05) a new campaign to collect using emojis, animal emoticons.
With the campaign the entity will receive a few cents every time interested in helping issuing tweets with emojis of endangered animals.
We handle 17 animals (photo) endangered: Asian elephant, giant panda, the Green Turtle, Dolphin of Maui, the Dog-African Wilderness’, the Whale-gray, the Tiger of Sumatra, the Galapagos penguin, the Perereca -lêmure, the Blue Whale, the Cobra Santa Lucia, the Spidermonkey, the Asian camel, the Leopard-Amur, the Tiger, the Siamese Crocodile and the Tuna Blue.
Research shows that by 2050 will be extinct one million species, which are divided into: 12% will be of birds, 23% of mammals, 52% of insects, 32% of amphibians, 51% of reptiles, 25% of sharks and 20% Streaks.
Those who wish to help the campaign should be to use the WWF site to retweet the post of WWF (#endanjeredEmoji) and donors agree to donate ten cents (about 30 cents) with one of emojis of endangered animals.
Social network provides UK election
12
May
Tracking the number of tweets in English election shows the oscillation of the parties
and the big news of opinions that networks offer, for example, the surprise variation that was the Scottish National Party (SNP yellow) that reached the peak on 22 April with 22.69% of vote intentions was appointed only by the tweets and the reaction has only dropped to 13%, but continued pointing to the big surprise in the elections.
The newly created UKIP party (in purple, the new UK Independence Party) represented the trend of much of the English nationalists who paradoxically do not want the separation of Scottish SNP, you can watch the changing of their position in April.
The work was done by Computer scientists from the University of Warwick are using Twitter, the working in collaboration with partners in the Department of Journalism at City University London and the Information Technologies Institute (ITI-CERTH, Greece), and is registered in the News from site of the University of Warwick.
About the prevision registered in site ElectionsUK2015, the Warwick´s researcher Adam Tsakalidis said: “We are trying to define and extract meaningful features out of the noisy, user-generated content published in Twitter”.
He completed explaining: “This includes the number of users mentioning a political party and the number of users who have expressed a negative opinion about this party on a certain day. We then put all this information into our forecasting model, along with the parties’ share of the vote as measured by opinion polls. Predicting elections using social media data has been tried in the past, with varying results. We have evidence from our previous work that our approach is very effective.”
Mystery, particles and cosmos
11
May
The objectivist pragmatism that sees being separated into subject and object, can not see beyond
the navel of the self, although browse by categories such as “individualism”, “ethics”, “consciousness” (or disposal which is the same) is himself unaware of their lack of beyond, the meta-physical, as the physical (physis) basis of their objectivity, alienated being trans- formed into subject (subjectivity) or canceled it completely in a homo sacer (Agamben).
Looking to infinity and the mystery, but not solve the problem, it helps to think we do not know everything that cynical reason (Sloterdijk) did not explain everything, or rather explained almost nothing and that life and still be there in the Dasein of the crisis of modernity.
Two events help us to look at this mystery, if only in comfortable field of objectivity, look for the infinite universe where even the man does not see and the interior of the particle where the man sees but does not understand the mystery was laid ( by Being).
Look particles is possible from Large Hadron Collider (LHC) returned to work on the first Sunday in April (05/04), and now with an energy greater than earlier before 7 eV and 13 eV now, the particles will travel to 99 , 999999% the speed of light, and we can produce in the laboratory, similar to a micro black hole, this mystery in the universe.
After Hubble, a new laboratory will be present in the cosmos expanding our vision, named after the astronomer James Webb, he called James Webb Space Telescope, or just JWST, and unlike the previous one which saw images obtained by the visible solar spectrum, the JWST use infrared, and so you can see beyond the normal vision, and obersar the formation of the first galaxies and stars by studying their evolution to form galaxies, how is the production of elements and particles by the stars and see how to give their processes of its formation.
Look deeply in and out deeply, can help the man who broke up in modernity and to rediscover your being, or subject or object, but Being.
Personalities and Mother’s Day
08
May
Several people tell the story of his life as a possibility and thank the choice of their mothers they have chosen 
the life of their children, if not they would not have been born, of course there are millions of anonymous mothers choices, poor and suffering who decided to give birth to her children often without any condition or in disrepair.
One of these illustrious stories that came to all is the extraordinary actor Jack Nicholson, born in 1936, says that his mother was a teenager when she became pregnant and offered her the opportunity to abort it, but she opted for his life, grew up believing that her grandmother was his mother, and his real mother his brother, only in 1974 discovered the truth.
The singer Andrea Bocelli also tells his story his mother was pregnant and was hospitalized for a “simple attack of appendicitis,” but to examine the baby because she was pregnant, and seeing that treatment could have affected the child suggested you abort him as born with disabilities, but the mother decided to have it, blindness come at a football game at 12, and he says in a video his “little story” as the flame.
Edgar Morin says in his book My demons (published in 1997 by Bertrand of Brazil) account that was born under the sign of death, your mother should abort it came to trying it but they survived, wrote: “I should die for her to live, she had to die for me to live (…) I was born in death and was snatched from death, “the mother still live up to 9 years of the French educator.
My parents had 12 children, had a pact of love that receive the children that God might give them, I am grateful for my family, 11 are alive, love them each, Happy Mothers Day to all these courageous creatures, specially to my … really special was my mother.
Company announces clean energy
07
May
The Tesla company had already announced last year the construction in the US state of Nevada a super lithium-ion 
battery capable of supplying power to several cities, the investment of 5 billion dollars (about 15 billion real) in partnership with Japanese Panasonic, now announces a new step in clean energy, Powerwall which is already being developed in a warehouse on the outskirts of Los Angeles, announced last week.
The Tesla Powerwall equipment is to supply home residences from solar panels, and can operate at night, in addition to providing a secure backup in case of a power outage, as news on Business Insider.
In theory the device can be mounted to a garage wall can make completely independent houses of traditional electricity, using only solar energy.
The idea of solar energy can change the energy pattern around the globe, eliminating the anti-ecological (and often antissocial in Brazil) energy from hydroelectric and dangerous nuclear energy, and the announcement on first May, the company’s founder the American Elon Musk said the goal is to turn all worldwide energy infrastructure until we get the ‘zero-carbon’ sustainable, left to governments and energy companies will leave.
Later this year takes place in Paris the prestigious UNFCCC – or the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change that promises an effective and real pressure presence in governments and businesses.
Manuscripts reading platform
06
May
A digital platform was launched by the library at the University of Uppsala offering works database scanned from
cultural heritage collections, with handwritten works with surveys from handwriting recognition software.
The initiative was made from the competition with other software worldwide for applications become feasible to search for text, making available collections of enormous value not only historical but also economic, as noted by researcher Anders Brun of the University of Uppsala, as the site of this university.
The decoding of the manuscripts was made by a method that enables a computer to interpret a digital image of text using expertise, which uses a small portion of the material to identify the form and style of writing a small piece of text, then reading It is automated using standard experimental sample.
An interdisciplinary collaborative focus due to the relevance of the project to various humanities was needed, for example, the research done in the Vatican Library manuscripts, which if done without this digital process would cost a small fortune, explained Anders Brun on the website news University of Uppsala.
