“Bullying” contra o Português

Excelente artigo de Luis Antonio Giron publicado na Revista Epoca:

http://revistaepoca.globo.com/Revista/Epoca/0,,EMI225334-15230,00.html

Man with a Moving Camera

"Infinite technical possibilities, we know all about them right now, but just imagine having being a man or woman with a movie camera in 1929", Sarah Fishko for WNYC.

• http://www.wnyc.org/shows/fishko/2011/apr/12/
• http://www.moma.org/visit/calendar/films/1165

The Dziga Vertov festival runs from April 15th through June 4th at the Museum of Modern Art.

Bureaucracy

bureaucracy |byoŏˈräkrəsē|

noun ( pl. -cies)

a system of government in which most of the important decisions are made by state officials rather than by elected representatives.

• a state or organization governed or managed according to such a system.

• the officials in such a system, considered as a group or hierarchy.

• excessively complicated administrative procedure, seen as characteristic of such a system : the unnecessary bureaucracy in local government.

ORIGIN early 19th cent.: from French bureaucratie, from bureau (see bureau, -cracy ).

Everything must go?

Mais um capítulo, desta vez escrito em mídia digital, do fim das livrarias como conhecemos... Borders Bookstore no East Village.

NPR: How Western Diets Are Making The World Sick

http://www.npr.org/2011/03/24/132745785/how-western-diets-are-making-the-world-sick&sc=nl&cc=es-20110403

March 24, 2011

In an essay published last November in Canada's Maisonneuve journal, physician Kevin Patterson described his experiences working as an internist-intensivist at the Canadian Combat Surgical Hospital in Kandahar, Afghanistan.

One detail he noticed: The Afghan soldiers, police and civilians he treated in Kandahar had radically different bodies from those of the Canadians he took care of back home.

"Typical Afghan civilians and soldiers would have been 140 pounds or so as adults. And when we operated on them, what we were aware of was the absence of any fat or any adipose tissue underneath the skin," Patterson says. "Of course, when we operated on Canadians or Americans or Europeans, what was normal was to have most of the organs encased in fat. It had a visceral potency to it when you could see it directly there."

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Best April Fool's joke

Here is the original ad at Think Geek.

Radioactive: Marie & Pierre Curie, A Tale of Love and Fallout

Exposição na Biblioteca Pública de NY sobre a parceria romântica e intelectual do casal Curie:

http://exhibitions.nypl.org/radioactive/
http://www.nypl.org/events/exhibitions/radioactive

Destaco um trecho na biografia de madame Curie, que definiu o termo "radioatividade" ha mais de um século:

"Because of their levels of radioactivity, her papers from the 1890s are considered too dangerous to handle. Even her cookbook is highly radioactive. They are kept in lead-lined boxes, and those who wish to consult them must wear protective clothing."

120+ anos...

Villa-Lobos

Veggie Burgers

Veggie Burgers of Note Around Manhattan

NYTimes:  http://nyti.ms/dShpvD

Full Moon Tonight

Full moon from West side of Hudson River

Chrysler and Empire State Building