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brevivências 2014-11-26

O Papa pronunciou ontem um dos mais poderosos discursos que o Parlamento Europeu alguma vez lá escutou. O mesmo dará que reflectir a muitos parlamentares europeus. Até porque o Papa ligou o que disse à essência da União Europa.

Devo confessar que no momento em que escrevo isto ainda o não ouvi ou li na totalidade. Baseio-me em vários extractos que a CNN transmitiu e que um programa como o Richard Quest (da mesma CNN) destacou, tudo isso por mim ouvido no referido canal, e sobre eles discutiu em directo  com um importante dignatário da Igreja Católica. Naturalmente que a certa altura a pergunta foi feita se o Papa era anti-capitalista. A resposta do representante da Igreja foi clara, se bem que com muito de diplomático: O Papa Francisco aceita um sistema liberal, mas humano. Em que o ser humano seja o centro e não as questões politico-económicas.

"Papa apela para que o Mediterrâneo não se torne num "cemitério" de migrantes" (Lido em:DN,2014-11-25)

“O Abstracionismo, como conceito nas Artes Plásticas, surge na Alemanha, no início do século XX, a partir de experiências das vanguardas europeias em contraposição às herancas clássicas das academias de arte. A postura dos primeiros artistas abstratos foi de compromisso em representar a realidade aparente e não reproduzir figuras nem retratar temas. O que importava aos primeiros artistas abstratos eram as formas e cores da composição, enriquecidas com manchas e interferências inusitadas no Desenho e na Pintura. Na escultura, artistas dessa tendêndia trabalharam o volume e a textura, explorando as possibilidades da tridimensionalidade do objeto."                  PAULO KLEIN (António Carlos Gouveia Jr, Cecília Gouveia, “The art Book Brasil – Abstratos”, Editora Décor, São Paulo, 2007)

"(...) Ik stond voor het doek Waar komen we vandaan? Wie zijn we? Waar gaan we heen? van Paul Gauguin en liet het erotische mysterie ervan op me inwerken. Ik werd verliefd op Monet. Ik genoot van de grote schilderijen van Titiaan, Rembrandt, Renoir en Van Gogh. Ze voerden me terug in de tijd en hielpen me de essentie van kunst te begrijpen, haar wilde passies en extravagante schoonheid."

LANG LANG (Lang Lang, Van Oost naar West, Forum, Amsterdam, 2008)

""Wall Street Journal" sugere Porto para fim de semana "perfeito""(JN,14-11-24)

"Mikhail Baryshnikov: ‘People applauded. The ham in me woke up’"

[Por:]"Liz Hoggard"   ""'I'm afraid to get bored with myself. The time is ticking.'"          "The dancer Mikhail Baryshnikov on his past in Riga and Russia, Sex and the City and a new exhibition of his photography"

“I was at a gas station in the Dominican Republic and this couple got out the car and started dancing,” Mikhail Baryshnikov, 66, says. “I was lucky they didn’t pay attention to me.              People said: ‘Oh you manipulated the shot,’ but I swear to God, I didn’t.”              One of the greatest classical ballet dancers of our time is telling me about his new calling – photography. (...)" (Em:Guardian,14-11-23)

visto no youtube: fabuloso ed sheeran

estudo científico, sério, sobre o fator acaso e de pessoas teimosas em acrediar realidade das conclusões

"(...) Some years later, Amos and his students Tom Gilovich and Robert Vallone caused a stir with their study of misperceptions and randomness in basketball. The "fact" that players occasionally acquire a hot hand is generally accepted by players, coaches, and fans. The inference is irrestible: a player sinks three or four times in a row and you cannot help formig the casual judgement that the player is now hot, with a temporarily increased propensity to score. Players on both teams adapt to this judgement - teammates are more likely to pass to the hot scorer and the defense is more likely to double-team.

Analysis of thousands of sequences of shots led to a disappointing conclusion: there is no such thing as a hot hand in professional basketball, either in shooting from the foeld or scoring from the foul line.

Of course, some players are more accurate than others, but the sequence of successes and missed shots satisfies all tests of randomness. The hot hand is entirely in the eye of the beholders, who are consistenly too quick to perceive order and casuality in randomness. Te hot hand is a massive and widespread cognitive illusion.

 

The public reaction to this research is part of the story. The finding was picked up by the press because of its surprising conclusion, and the general response was disbelief.

When the celebrated coach of Boston Celtics, Red Auerbach, heard of Gilovich and his study, he responded, "Who is this guy? So he makes a study. I couldn't care less."

The tendency to see patterns in randomness is overwhelming - certainly more impressive than a guy making a study. (...)"            DANIEL KAHNEMAN prémio Nobel de Economia e professor catedrático de Psicologia na Universidade de Princeton

 (Daniel Kahneman, Thinking Fast and Slow, Penguin Books, London, 2011)

"Man’s headaches due to tapeworm living in his brain for four years"

"Parasitic worm normally found in amphibians and crustaceans in China may have scavenged nutrients from patient’s brain. (...)" (Lido em:The Guardian,2014-11-21)

"Uma cidade "fácil de amar, difícil de deixar", diz o Wall Street Journal"

"O Porto continua na moda. Desta vez é o Wall Street Journal a recomendar um fim de semana prolongado na Invicta. (Lido em:DN,2014-11-21)