tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-46414535691569435882024-03-13T22:08:49.664+00:00The Procrastinator (some) TimesArticles worth reading, some original content, edited by Ana. Meaningful procrastination in a weekly edition.Anahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08448183300226731533noreply@blogger.comBlogger449125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4641453569156943588.post-7851703297521962362015-12-31T21:54:00.001+00:002015-12-31T21:54:18.736+00:00The Procrastinator (some) Times End of 2015 & Beginning of 2016 Edition<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Welcome to the last edition of 2015 of The Procrastinator (some) Times. 2015 was a very intense year, not the best I've remember, definitely. <a href="https://49.media.tumblr.com/db5b7af9f46bf225580d905e215158ed/tumblr_nz5p68rM5Q1teu98ko3_400.gif">This is how I wave you good-bye 2015</a> (merci Marine for such accurate representation of my feelings).</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">So, here are the articles that we have been reading lately and that will make a meaningful procrastination during this lazy January days. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="line-height: 21.9999px;">In our News and Science sections: New research on the role that poverty plays in intellectual development finds that <a href="http://www.procrastinatortimes.com/2015/12/science-povertys-role-in-intellectual.html">a disadvantaged environment can prevent genetics from doing its job</a>. </span><span style="line-height: 23px;">The Economist promises to explain Thomas Piketty's (massive) </span><span style="line-height: 23px;">"Capital in the Twenty-First Century" in <a href="http://www.procrastinatortimes.com/2015/12/news-thomas-pikettys-capital-summarised.html">four decent sized paragraphs</a>.</span><span style="line-height: 23px;"> </span><span style="line-height: 21.9999px;">The Independent will teach you </span><a href="http://www.procrastinatortimes.com/2015/12/science-how-to-cut-down-on-meat-without.html">how to cut down on meat without going cold turkey</a>, if that's what you're into with this New Year's resolutions. <span style="background-color: #edf4ff;">Ozy introduce us to Jeremy England, the man who can change what we think about evolution... and faith. </span><span style="background-color: #edf4ff;">http://www.procrastinatortimes.com/2015/12/science-jeremy-england-man-who-may-one.html</span></span><br />
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In our Culture & Entertainment sections: the artist <a href="http://www.procrastinatortimes.com/2015/12/culture-francis-alys-to-hold-refugee.html">Francis Alÿs will stage workshops at an Iraqi refugee camp</a> as part of the project Creativity for Survival: Art Workshops in Refugee Camps in Iraq. Gotta love Alÿs. I know, I do. <span style="letter-spacing: 0.2px; line-height: 26px;">CityLab, on the other hand, have compiled <a href="http://www.procrastinatortimes.com/2015/12/culture-stubborn-myths-and-dated-terms.html">a list of myths we’re tired of debunking and phrases we’re tired of seeing</a>—not to mention writing; from "hipster" to "sharing economy." #HatersGonnaHate. </span>Ari Basciani, of Culturetas, shares with us this list published by The Atlantic of the <a href="http://www.procrastinatortimes.com/2015/12/entertainment-2016-tv-preview.html">TV shows to look forward to in 2016</a>, and our collaborator Kerilyn shares <a href="http://www.procrastinatortimes.com/2015/12/entertainment-top-5-reasons-you-should.html" target="_blank">why we should be watching The Royals</a>.<br />
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So, this is it. We will be back soon(-ish), don't worry and enjoy your parties, your readings and keep making your procrastination a meaningful one in 2016!<br />
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Anahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08448183300226731533noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4641453569156943588.post-43461591683227931362015-12-31T21:51:00.004+00:002015-12-31T21:51:49.702+00:00NEWS: Thomas Piketty’s “Capital”, summarised in four paragraphs<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 23px;">"IT IS the economics book taking the world by storm. "Capital in the Twenty-First Century", written by the French economist Thomas Piketty, was published in French last year and in English in March of this year. The English version quickly became an unlikely bestseller, and it has prompted a broad and energetic debate on the book’s subject: the outlook for global inequality. Some reckon it heralds or may itself cause a pronounced shift in the focus of economic policy, toward distributional questions. This newspaper has hailed Mr Piketty as "</span><a href="http://www.economist.com/news/leaders/21601512-thomas-pikettys-blockbuster-book-great-piece-scholarship-poor-guide-policy" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 23px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">the modern Marx</a><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 23px;">" (Karl, that is). But what’s it all about?" The Economist promises to explain this (massive) book <a href="http://www.economist.com/blogs/economist-explains/2014/05/economist-explains?fsrc=scn/fb/te/bl/ed/explainscapital">in four decent sized paragraphs</a>. E.T.P. 4'</span></div>
Anahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08448183300226731533noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4641453569156943588.post-58860380937704279272015-12-31T21:51:00.003+00:002015-12-31T21:51:38.563+00:00NEWS: Poverty's Role in Intellectual Development<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">"<span style="font-size: 17px; letter-spacing: 0.2px; line-height: 26px;">Whether intelligence is more the product of nature or nurture has long fascinated American social scientists and the general public alike. Typically the result is explained as some balance of genetics and environment, but since the early 1970s, researchers have noticed that this scale tends to shift dramatically across social classes. It’s as if nature and nurture play by different rules for rich and poor." Read full article in <a href="http://www.citylab.com/work/2015/12/povertys-role-in-intellectual-development/420822/" target="_blank">CityLab</a>. E.T.P. </span></span></div>
Anahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08448183300226731533noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4641453569156943588.post-37164980334538874512015-12-31T21:51:00.001+00:002015-12-31T21:51:23.917+00:00SCIENCE: Jeremy England, the Man Who May One-Up Darwin<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Ozy introduce us to Jeremy England, the man who can change what we think not only about evolution but also about faith.<br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">"On a sunny afternoon, at a bustling cafe less than a mile from Stanford University’s campus, near Palo Alto, and more than 5,000 miles from his home, an assistant professor from MIT is telling me about science. Very advanced science. His name is Jeremy England, and at 33, he’s already being called the next Charles Darwin.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">In town to give a lecture, the Harvard grad and Rhodes scholar speaks quickly, his voice rising a few pitches in tone, his long-fingered hands making sudden jerks when he’s excited. He’s skinny, with a long face, scraggly beard and carelessly groomed mop of sandy brown hair — what you might expect from a theoretical physicist. But then there’s the street-style Adidas on his feet and the kippah atop his head. And the fact that this scientist also talks a lot about God."</span></div>
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Read full article in <a href="http://www.ozy.com/rising-stars/the-man-who-may-one-up-darwin/39217">OZY</a>. E.T.P. 7'</div>
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Anahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08448183300226731533noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4641453569156943588.post-58293600917265181662015-12-31T21:51:00.000+00:002015-12-31T21:51:03.433+00:00SCIENCE: How to cut down on meat without going cold turkey<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">"The environmental, health and animal welfare benefits of a meat-free diet are well known - but convincing people to forgo crispy bacon or juicy steak for the rest of their lives is not easy.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">There might be a better way, one campaigner says. Instead of advocating vegetarianism, he is encouraging people to drastically cut down on eating meat without cutting it out completely. He calls it "reducetarianism"." Read full article in <a href="http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/food-and-drink/features/reducetarianism-how-to-cut-down-on-meat-without-going-cold-turkey-a6783221.html">The Independent.</a> E.T.P. 8'</span></div>
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Anahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08448183300226731533noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4641453569156943588.post-13357985363762225352015-12-31T21:49:00.002+00:002015-12-31T21:49:52.447+00:00CULTURE: Francis Alÿs to Hold Refugee Workshops in Areas Affected by ISIS<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">"<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; letter-spacing: 1px; line-height: 23px;">The artist Francis Alÿs will stage workshops at an Iraqi refugee camp as part of the project </span><span style="color: #333333; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; letter-spacing: 1px; line-height: 23px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Creativity for Survival: Art Workshops in Refugee Camps in Iraq</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; letter-spacing: 1px; line-height: 23px;">.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Alÿs' activities, to start next year, will be in support of the Ruya Foundation, whose work is also supported by <a href="https://news.artnet.com/art-world/ai-weiwei-unveils-lego-project-390686" style="font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" target="_blank">Chinese artist Ai Weiwei</a>. The foundation is setting up a permanent art space in Camp Shariya in northern Iraq, which will facilitate adult refugees engaging in art through a program of talks, classes, and workshops led by a range of local and international artists including Alÿs, whose work has dealt with spatial justice and land-based poetics." Read full article in <a href="https://news.artnet.com/art-world/francis-alys-refugee-workshops-iraq-393579" target="_blank">ArtNet News</a>. E.T.P. 3'</span></div>
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Anahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08448183300226731533noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4641453569156943588.post-8969446913393916922015-12-31T21:49:00.000+00:002015-12-31T21:49:02.840+00:00CULTURE: Stubborn Myths and Dated Terms We'd Like to Retire in 2016<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">"Whether they’re overused, misunderstood, or wrongfully deployed, sometimes good words and concepts go bad. As CityLab wraps up 2015 and looks forward to a new year full of promise, we’ve compiled the following list of myths we’re tired of debunking and phrases we’re tired of seeing—not to mention writing. Maybe, just maybe, if we all hold hands and jump together, we can reduce the number of times we’re collectively forced to contend with these terms in 2016." Go to <a href="http://www.citylab.com/politics/2015/12/stubborn-myths-and-dated-terms-wed-like-to-retire-in-2016/422241/">CityLab</a> to read the extense list that include from "millenials" and "hipsters" to "artisanal" and "sharing economy"... They have their reasons. E.T.P. 8'</span></div>
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Anahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08448183300226731533noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4641453569156943588.post-90664259961365685312015-12-31T21:48:00.003+00:002015-12-31T21:48:14.595+00:00ENTERTAINMENT: A 2016 TV Preview<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Anahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08448183300226731533noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4641453569156943588.post-24041405924172593692015-12-31T21:48:00.002+00:002015-12-31T21:48:05.748+00:00ENTERTAINMENT: Top 5 Reasons You Should be Watching The Royals <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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1. <b>Anglophilia</b> - it is a show written by Americans for an American TV network about a fictional British royal family. And fabulously fictional they are! No English man or woman would be caught dead saying any of the lines because of their fabulously cheesy nature. There also are far too many Americans in the cast, which is especially absurd because of how posh everyone is. I am not sure if it is actually how America sees England or if it is how we wish England was. Either way, it is a love affair built on fantasy, which is the best kind. </div>
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2. <b>Aesthetic bliss</b> - everyone is beautiful and wears beautiful clothes and the sets and locations are gorgeous. I don’t know where they found the clean streets and sun, but I’ll be the first in line for the bus tour. </div>
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3. <b>Jaspenor / Opheliam</b> - who doesn’t love watching a blighted romance between people who are completely perfect for each other but incapable of a functional relationship? Will Jasper the bodyguard earn back Princess Eleanor’s trust? Will Prince Liam and Ophelia ride off into the sunset? We all, the entire internet, hopes so, but as season 2 rolls on that dream seems more impossible to realize. Excuse me while I go light some candles and listen to Adele’s 25 on repeat. </div>
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4. <b>A Soap Opera for Modern Times</b> - it is a shame that us twenty and thirty somethings did not get the chance to spend our college days discussing daytime soap operas - who killed whom, whose kid was whose, who married their sister and who came back from the dead. Until now! The Royals has it all: an unsolved murder, a paternity scandal, people we thought were dead are not really, marital affairs, blackmail and back stabbing. Where’s my martini? </div>
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Anahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08448183300226731533noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4641453569156943588.post-23140151929747449512015-11-29T17:20:00.000+00:002015-11-30T10:05:51.552+00:00The Procrastinator (some) Times Sunday 29th of November Edition<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #141823; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18.76px;">This is a rather serious edition and we start, of course, with the <b>News</b>: Foreign Policy talks about the importance of <a href="http://foreignpolicy.com/2015/11/25/how-to-save-the-schengen-zone-europe-paris-borders/?utm_content=buffer73be8&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer">saving the Shenghen Zone</a>, a treaty that is under more pressure than ever. The Economist in its article <a href="http://www.procrastinatortimes.com/2015/11/news-continent-like-belgium.html">A Continent</a><a href="http://www.procrastinatortimes.com/2015/11/news-continent-like-belgium.html"> like </a><a href="http://www.procrastinatortimes.com/2015/11/news-continent-like-belgium.html">Belgium</a>, affirms that the country is politically splintered and vulnerable to terrorism... just as the rest of Europe, because Belgium can be seen as a microcosm of Europe, "</span>first,
in its expression of the dream that domestic differences can be
dissolved in a federalist soup; subsequently as an example of
north-south mistrust. Recent events provide a third prism: like other
European countries, Belgium is floundering in the face of a domestic
terror threat. Here, as elsewhere, budget cuts have left police and
intelligence services short of resources, including Arabic-speakers."<span style="background-color: white; color: #141823; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18.76px;"> </span></span></span><br />
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before a UN summit starts in Paris. And finally, The Economist share some of the <a href="http://www.procrastinatortimes.com/2015/11/news-bolivarian-english-dictionary.html">newest Venezuelan slang</a> sparked by the so-called Bolivarian Revolution. " After 17 years of "chavismo", the left-wing-ish ideology of the late Hugo Chávez, they have plenty of new material." (I added the -ish to the left-wing, just for the sake of keeping it real, you know).</span></span></span><br />
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meditative state, and reap some of its proven benefits. The Atlantic on the other hand teach us <a href="http://www.procrastinatortimes.com/2015/11/science-6-technology-how-not-to-die-of.html">How not to die of botuli</a><a href="http://www.procrastinatortimes.com/2015/11/science-6-technology-how-not-to-die-of.html">sm</a>. </span>"Highly-poisonous botulinum toxin (the stuff in Botox), played a
formidable role in the history of food and warfare. It is still a factor
in prison-brewed alcohol and some canned foods, and can quickly kill a
person." </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">In <b>Culture & Entertainment</b>, </span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">in an interview with Le Monde, the French philosopher Bernard Stiegler
declared that <a href="http://www.procrastinatortimes.com/2015/11/culture-entertainment-bernard-stiegler.html">the only way of fighting ISIS is by creating a believable, sustainable future for the young</a>. Justin Gammil put
together <a href="http://www.procrastinatortimes.com/2015/11/culture-entertainment-30-new-words-for.html">a list of just 30 words</a> that -he says- will make an excellent addition to your everyday vocabulary; among them are askhole, bedgasm and chairdrobe. Also The Daily Dot responds why<a href="http://www.procrastinatortimes.com/2015/11/culture-entertainment-cats-vs-cucumbers.html"> you shouldn't be scaring your cat with a cucumber</a>. </span></span><br />
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Anahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08448183300226731533noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4641453569156943588.post-17388305321356143412015-11-29T17:16:00.000+00:002015-11-30T10:04:52.543+00:00NEWS: A Continent like Belgium<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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"Brussels, wrote Tony Judt, is “a metaphor for all that can go wrong
in a modern city”. The late historian, writing in 1999, was referring to
the civic neglect that has left much of the Belgian capital, home to
most institutions of the European Union, an unsightly mess of concrete
and roadworks with the worst traffic in Europe. But his words could just
as well apply to the string of terrorist plots and attacks that has
provided Brussels, and some other Belgian cities, with a scabrous
reputation as an incubator of <i class="Italic">jihadi</i> ideology and a paragon of law-enforcement incompetence.<br />
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Belgium has long been the butt of European jokes, thanks in large
part to its dysfunctional politics. In 2010-11 squabbles over the rights
of Flemish-speakers on the outskirts of Brussels held up the formation
of a government for 589 days, a world record. But the terror threat has
exposed the darker side of Belgium’s maladministration, in the form of
uncoordinated security services and neglected areas like Molenbeek, a
down-at-heel Muslim-majority <i class="Italic">commune</i> in west
Brussels. After the Paris attacks, French officials sniped at their
Belgian counterparts on learning that several of the perpetrators had
hatched their schemes in Brussels. Two had been questioned by Belgian
police earlier this year. One of them, Salah Abdeslam, fled to Brussels
after having driven three of the Paris suicide-bombers to their
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Yet no European country with a large Muslim minority has solved the
problem of integration. Britain and France take different approaches,
but each has seen scores killed in “home-grown” terrorist attacks. In
Sweden, towns like Gothenburg are partially segregated; this week the
government executed a screeching U-turn on its asylum policy. Even
Germany, which is embarking on its own experiment in integration after
having welcomed hundreds of thousands of Syrian refugees, has struggled
to accept that it is a land of immigration rather than of <i class="Italic">Gastarbeiter</i>
(“guest-workers”). In each of these countries and others,
anti-immigration parties are climbing in the polls; in some, they top
them.<br />
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Twenty years ago the main terrorist threat in Europe came from
regional separatists. Ten years ago it was spectacular attacks by
al-Qaeda, or groups inspired by it. It is now evolving into something
messier, directed against softer targets, organised across borders and
linked to gangland crime and weapons-trafficking. (Olivier Roy, a French
expert on extremism, speaks of “the Islamicisation of radicalism”.)
This raises urgent questions for officials across Europe, not least over
how far they are willing to share intelligence and data with their
counterparts elsewhere, whether within the EU or in other formats. It is
time to stop bashing Belgium. Much of Europe is in the same boat."<br />
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Anahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08448183300226731533noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4641453569156943588.post-89685449337254029562015-11-29T17:14:00.000+00:002015-11-30T10:04:29.376+00:00NEWS: How to Save the Schengen Zone<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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"Even before the horrific terrorist attacks in Paris earlier this month,
the Schengen Agreement, which has largely removed barriers to internal
movements of people across 26 European countries, was in trouble: A
steady flow of refugees fleeing Syria’s civil war and violence elsewhere
in the Middle East had led to deep political strains, “temporary”
fences and border closures, and finger pointing among member states. But
now, with reports indicating that those involved in the Paris attacks
made good use of Schengen’s open borders, entering Europe through an
overwhelmed Greece, and using Belgium as a staging ground to attack the
French capital, the treaty is under more pressure than ever." Read full article in <a href="http://foreignpolicy.com/2015/11/25/how-to-save-the-schengen-zone-europe-paris-borders/?utm_content=buffer73be8&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer">Foreign Policy</a>. E.T.P. 7'</div>
Anahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08448183300226731533noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4641453569156943588.post-29768851592049792015-11-29T17:12:00.000+00:002015-11-30T10:03:42.805+00:00NEWS: COP21: Rallies call for Paris climate change action<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Nuns in South Korea rally. Phoyo by Photograph: Kim Hong-Ji/Reuters via The Guardian.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Pope Francis shoes in Place de la République, Paris.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Emma Thompson and Dame Vivienne Westwood attend the London march
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Berlin, Germany. Photo by<br />
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Hundreds of thousands of people have
marched worldwide to demand action to stop climate change, the day
before a UN summit starts in Paris.</div>
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One campaign group says more than 570,000 protesters took part in marches on all the main continents.<br />
Activists
want action at the Paris talks to limit the rise in the average global
temperature to 2C (3.6F) above pre-industrial levels.<br />
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Hundreds of pairs of shoes were left on Place de la Republique to remember those left frustrated in their plans to march. Among them were a pair donated by Pope Francis, who has called for urgent action on climate change.<br />
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Elsewhere across the world:<br />
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<li class="story-body__list-item">an <a class="story-body__link" href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-34957789">estimated 50,000 people</a> took part in a march in central <b>London</b>, where opposition leader Jeremy Corbyn addressed crowds</li>
<li class="story-body__list-item">some of the <a class="story-body__link-external" href="https://twitter.com/MinisterTdB/status/670555419190951936">earliest protests in the day</a> took place in the <b>Marshall Islands</b>, a US territory in the Pacific Ocean threatened by rising seas</li>
<li class="story-body__list-item">in <b>Kenya</b>, a march took place across the equator</li>
<li class="story-body__list-item">a small group took part in a march across a glacier in the south of <b>Chile</b>
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<li>the mayor of <b>Sydney </b>in Australia <a class="story-body__link-external" href="https://twitter.com/CloverMoore/status/670827499694125056">tweeted </a>to say that there were "at least 45,000" demonstrators, making it the biggest ever such march in the city</li>
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Read more in <a href="http://www.bbc.com/news/world-34956825">BBC</a>. E.T.P. 3' and see photos from around the world <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/gallery/2015/nov/29/global-climate-march-2015-in-pictures">The Guardian</a> E.T.P. 3'<br />
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Anahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08448183300226731533noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4641453569156943588.post-82059951699191131532015-11-29T17:10:00.000+00:002015-11-30T10:06:45.704+00:00NEWS: A Bolivarian-English dictionary<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 19.32px;">Venezuelans are famously inventive with words. After 17 years of "chavismo", the left-wing-ish ideology of the late Hugo Chávez, they have plenty of new material. "</span><span style="line-height: 23px;"> Insults aimed at his “Bolivarian revolution” abound; the regime, now led by Nicolás Maduro, hurls its own ammunition. With parliamentary elections due on December 6th, </span><i class="Italic" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; line-height: 23px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The Economist </i><span style="line-height: 23px;">offers a sample." Read them all in <a href="http://www.economist.com/news/americas/21678836-insults-are-not-short-supply-bolivarian-english-dictionary">The Economist</a>. E.T.P. 2'</span></span></div>
Anahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08448183300226731533noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4641453569156943588.post-85026425082459132522015-11-29T17:08:00.000+00:002015-11-30T10:02:28.499+00:00SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY: The Strange Science of Floating<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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"While floating has always had fans in the wellness world, it’s
undeniably grown in popularity. In 2011, there were 85 float centers in
the United States, according to Aaron Thompson, who runs an online
directory of flotation centers, and now there are more than 250.
Floating has also attracted the interest of a small group of scientists
who are trying to figure out if it has a place as a kind of therapy for
some kinds of distress, including PTSD. Any proof that this helps people
with stress disorders is anecdotal at this point, but something special
appears to happen in brain while the body floats. Now, some scientists,
like the neuropsychologist Justin Feinstein, are trying to find out
what.<br />
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Feinstein believes so deeply in the therapeutic potential of floating that he built his whole career, and laboratory, around<span class="marker"></span>
trying to prove it. This year he opened the only float lab in the
country: the Float Clinic and Research Center at the Laureate Institute
for Brain Research in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Inside, you won’t find the
claustrophobic coffin-like pods that make up most of the float tank
market. His custom-made float pool has no enclosure, ensuring that
people with anxiety disorders won’t be afraid to get in."<br />
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Read full article in <a href="http://time.com/floating/">TIME</a>. E.T.P. 9'<br />
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Anahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08448183300226731533noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4641453569156943588.post-10740359599065246942015-11-29T17:06:00.000+00:002015-11-30T10:01:50.868+00:00SCIENCE 6 TECHNOLOGY: How Not to Die of Botulism<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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"Botulinum toxin, a protein produced by the bacterium <i>Clostridium botulinum, </i>could be “the most poisonous poison” there is, as writer Carl Lamanna called it in <a data-omni-click="r'article',r'link',r'0',r'281649'" href="http://www.sciencemag.org/content/130/3378/763.citation">an article for <i>Science</i></a><i>, </i>in
1959. First weaponized by Imperial Japan in the 1930s, and later, Nazi
Germany, the United States, the Soviet Union, Syria, Iran, Iraq, and
North Korea, a single gram of toxin could theoretically kill more than a
million people if dispersed into the air and inhaled. But before
botulinum toxin became a bioweapon and a smoother of crow's feet as the
drug Botox, botulism was historically a foodborne malady, and the toxin
lurked in sausage and cured meats.<br />
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Botulism, the illness caused by
toxin exposure, first received scientific attention in rural Germany in
the late 18th century. Officials in Stuttgart saw an increase in
“sausage poisoning” in the wake of the Napoleonic wars, possibly due to
poor sanitation and widespread poverty. In the 1820s, a young German
physician named Justinus Kerner was the first scientist to publish an
accurate and comprehensive description of the disease. He analyzed more
than 200 cases of suspected sausage poisoning. He fed extracts of these
“sour” sausages to animals and described the classic symptoms of
botulism. Muscle weakness leading to drooped eye lids, difficulty
swallowing, and respiratory failure; altered autonomic nerve function
leading to vomiting, pupil dilation, and dry mouth. Brazenly, he sampled
a few drops of this extract himself—he survived, though it caused a
“great drying out of the palate and pharynx,” a harbinger of Botox’s
modern application in treating uncontrollable salivation for those with
amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, or Lou Gehrig’s disease. Grateful
citizens dubbed the scientist “Wurst-Kerner,” for his pioneering
contributions to public health and sausagery. In 1870, another German
physician renamed the illness “botulism” after the Latin word “botulus,”
or sausage."<br />
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Read full article in <a href="http://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2013/12/how-not-to-die-of-botulism/281649/">The Atlantic</a>. E.T.P. 8'</div>
Anahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08448183300226731533noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4641453569156943588.post-52826980556997034332015-11-29T17:04:00.000+00:002015-11-30T10:01:25.608+00:00CULTURE & ENTERTAINMENT: Bernard Stiegler on Daesh<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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In an interview with Le Monde, the French philosopher Bernard Stiegler declared that the only way of fighting ISIS is by creating a believable, sustainable future for the young. "Employment is collapsing, especially among young people, and despair breeds violence. That's one more reason to help generate hope today. The attacks of November 13 were suicide attacks, and that is not insignificant: suicide is developing around the world, especially from a young population who knows they will be unemployed for a long time."<br />
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Read full interview (in French) in <a href="http://www.lemonde.fr/emploi/article/2015/11/19/bernard-stiegler-ce-n-est-qu-en-projetant-un-veritable-avenir-qu-on-pourra-combattre-daech_4813660_1698637.html#r34fpy9FEEAyzAFH.99">Le Monde</a>. E.T.P. <br />
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Anahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08448183300226731533noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4641453569156943588.post-6718526619642294742015-11-29T17:02:00.000+00:002015-11-30T10:00:36.243+00:00CULTURE & ENTERTAINMENT: 30 New Words for Your Everyday Vocabulary<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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"It’s weird to think that in our evolution as humans; speech has
become so complex, yet we are always creating new words. In the first
quarter of 2015 alone, there were roughly 500 words added to the Oxford
English Dictionary. But how many of those words are relevant?" Justin Gammil put
together a list of just 30 words thanks to <a href="http://iheartintelligence.com/2015/04/17/30-brilliant-new-words-to-add-to-your-vocabulary/www.urbandictionary.com" target="_blank">Urban Dictionary</a> and <a href="http://www.boredpanda.com/modern-word-combinations-urban-dictionary/" target="_blank">Bored Panda</a>, that -he says- will make an excellent addition to your everyday vocabulary; among them are askhole, bedgasm and chairdrobe. Read them all in <a href="http://iheartintelligence.com/2015/04/17/30-brilliant-new-words-to-add-to-your-vocabulary/">I Heart Intelligence</a>. E.T.P. 3'</div>
Anahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08448183300226731533noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4641453569156943588.post-73470772028189721862015-11-29T17:00:00.000+00:002015-11-30T09:59:11.722+00:00CULTURE & ENTERTAINMENT: Cats vs Cucumbers<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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"People are <a href="http://www.dailydot.com/lol/cats-freak-cucumbers-bananas/" target="_self">scaring their cats with cucumbers</a>.
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curiosity after Huffington Post made a supercut of cats getting startled
by the sudden appearance of cucumbers. <a href="http://news.nationalgeographic.com/2015/11/151117-cats-cucumbers-videos-behavior/" target="_blank">National Geographic</a>
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generally agreed that this is a cruel thing to do to your pet. But why?" Find out in The Daily Dot. E.T.P. 4'</div>
Anahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08448183300226731533noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4641453569156943588.post-73704614092703842322015-11-01T11:09:00.001+00:002015-11-02T09:24:54.791+00:00The Procrastinator (some) Times Sunday 01 of November Edition<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br />These holiday and post-holiday's weeks have been very busy, and we almost didn't make it for today. But I reckoned that if I didn't make this edition, even though is a short one, I was going to stop the Procrastinator all together, and I'm not ready yet to let go. Also, I have a really good excuse for not coming back until now: procrastination. Isn't it beautiful?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Anyway. Here's your edition. In our News section: </span><a href="http://www.procrastinatortimes.com/2015/11/news-china-ends-one-child-policy.html" style="font-family: inherit;" target="_blank">China's one-child policy ends</a><span style="font-family: inherit;"> to "</span><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="line-height: 23px;">“increase labor supply and ease pressures from an </span></span><span style="line-height: 23px;">ageing</span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="line-height: 23px;"> population”. The Guardian shares a <a href="http://www.procrastinatortimes.com/2015/11/news-refugees-on-slovenia-croatia.html">drone-footage of the refugees in the Slovenian-Croatian border</a> that shows the scale of the migration. We also ask ourselves if </span></span><a href="http://www.procrastinatortimes.com/2015/11/news-does-hillary-has-lead-gif-advisor.html" style="font-family: inherit; line-height: 23px;" target="_blank">Hillary Clinton has a Lead GIF advisor</a><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="line-height: 23px;">, Matt Bors affirms in Medium that she might be the first presidential candidate to have one. Finally, in Venezuelan news, such is the extent of the country's economical crisis that</span></span><a href="http://www.procrastinatortimes.com/2015/11/news-few-in-venezuela-wants-bolivares.html" style="font-family: inherit; line-height: 23px;" target="_blank"> even thieves reject the local currency</a><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="line-height: 23px;">.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">In Science the latest research on the brain proves that <a href="http://www.procrastinatortimes.com/2015/11/science-relaxing-makes-you-more-creative.html" target="_blank">working fewer hours doesn't just make you healthier</a>. It makes you smarter, too.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">In Design, Business & Innovation, Andrew Smith argues that <a href="http://www.procrastinatortimes.com/2015/11/design-business-innovation-how.html" target="_blank">PowerPoint is killing critical thought</a> "Through PowerPoint, everything has a tendency to resemble a pitch
rather than a discussion: information is “storyboarded”, as for a movie –
but the presentation is not a movie and the presenter is rarely Brad
Pitt. No wonder we are bored." Plus the little-known story <a href="http://www.procrastinatortimes.com/2015/10/design-business-innovation-little-known.html" target="_blank">behind Britain's road signs</a>.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">In Culture & Entertainment, The Guardian shares with us the <a href="http://www.procrastinatortimes.com/2015/11/culture-entertainment-go-set-watchman.html" target="_blank">first chapter of Harper Lee's Go Set a Watchman</a>; Open Culture shares <a href="http://www.procrastinatortimes.com/2015/11/culture-entertainment-tools-for.html" target="_blank">130 free philosophy courses</a>, on death, love, religion, film, law, the self the ancients and the moderns, a very wide spectrum; and since we're on it, we also have <a href="http://www.procrastinatortimes.com/2015/11/culture-entertainment-30-jean-paul.html" target="_blank">30 Jean-Paul Sartre quotes</a> for your next existential crisis. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Finally, a little gift: <a href="http://www.procrastinatortimes.com/2015/11/procatination-united-bamboo-haute-cat.html">Haute Cat-ure.</a> Yes, yout got it. It's cat photos. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Happy reading, happy Sunday, happy month, and hope you enjoy this late <i>rentrée</i> edition (:</span></div>
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Anahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08448183300226731533noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4641453569156943588.post-14968471404005676492015-11-01T11:07:00.003+00:002015-11-02T09:20:43.952+00:00NEWS: Refugees on Slovenia-Croatia border – drone video footage<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Anahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08448183300226731533noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4641453569156943588.post-41266346004073483032015-11-01T11:07:00.002+00:002015-11-01T11:07:52.560+00:00NEWS: China Ends One-Child Policy<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 23px;">"Driven by fears that an aging population could jeopardize </span><a href="http://topics.nytimes.com/top/news/international/countriesandterritories/china/index.html?inline=nyt-geo" style="background-color: white; color: #326891; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 23px;" title="More news and information about China.">China</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 23px;">’s economic ascent, the Communist Party leadership ended its decades-old “one child” policy on Thursday, announcing that all married couples would be allowed to have two children. </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 23px;">The decision was a dramatic step away from a core Communist Party position that Deng Xiaoping, the Chinese leader who imposed the policy in the late 1970s, once said was needed to ensure that “the fruits of economic growth are not devoured by population growth.”</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 23px;"> Read full article in </span><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/30/world/asia/china-end-one-child-policy.html?mabReward=A5&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&region=CColumn&module=Recommendation&src=rechp&WT.nav=RecEngine" style="font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 23px;" target="_blank">The New York Times</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 23px;">. E.T.P. 6' </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 23px;">You can also read about it in </span><a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/oct/29/china-abandons-one-child-policy" style="font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 23px;" target="_blank">The Guardian</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 23px;">. E.T.P. 5'</span></div>
Anahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08448183300226731533noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4641453569156943588.post-40368906263721380612015-11-01T11:07:00.001+00:002015-11-01T11:07:33.887+00:00NEWS: Does Hillary has a Lead GIF advisor?<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br />This is the theory that Matt Bors handles in Medium, while Republicans are playing for the audio bite, Hillary might be playing for the GIF, and she might be the first presidential candidate to consciously do so. "<span style="background-color: white; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 1.58;">GIFs matter. Even if it presents a false narrative or cuts out crucial context — like the sound bite of yore — </span><span class="markup--quote markup--p-quote is-other" data-creator-ids="d12d7bff7177" name="64b07444fb4b" style="background-image: linear-gradient(rgba(39, 243, 106, 0.0980392), rgba(39, 243, 106, 0.0980392)); cursor: pointer; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 1.58;">a fast-traveling GIF bite will prove devastating for candidates unable to preemptively supply the public with GIF-fable reactions and gestures that fit their campaign’s narrative.</span><span style="background-color: white; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 1.58;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 1.58;">The 2016 election may very well hinge on a four second loop of an image file developed by CompuServe in 1987." Read full article in <a href="https://medium.com/@MattBors/the-gif-bite-election-34dfab84014#.7zj5jtdu9" target="_blank">Medium</a>. E.T.P. 3'</span></span></div>
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Anahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08448183300226731533noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4641453569156943588.post-41232443601032995962015-11-01T11:07:00.000+00:002015-11-01T11:07:08.551+00:00NEWS: Few in Venezuela wants Bolívares, but no one can spare a dime<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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"Pity the bolívar, <a href="http://topics.nytimes.com/top/news/international/countriesandterritories/venezuela/index.html?inline=nyt-geo" style="color: #326891;" title="More news and information about Venezuela.">Venezuela</a>’s currency, named after its independence hero, Simón Bolívar. Even some thieves do not want it anymore.</div>
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When robbers carjacked Pedro Venero, an engineer, earlier this year, he expected they would drive him to his bank to cash his check for a hefty sum in bolívars — the sort of thing that crime-weary Venezuelans have long since gotten used to. But the robbers, armed with rifles and a grenade, and sure that he would have a stash of dollars at home, wanted nothing to do with the bolívars in his bank account.</div>
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“They told me straight up, ‘Don’t worry about that,’ ” Mr. Venero said. “Forget about it.”</div>
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The eagerness to dump bolívars or avoid them completely shows the extent to which Venezuelans have lost faith in their economy and in the ability of their government to find a way out of the mess.</div>
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A year ago, $1 bought about 100 bolívars on the black market. These days, it often fetches more than 700 bolívars, a sign of how thoroughly domestic confidence in the economy has crashed."</div>
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Read full article by William Neuman and Patricia Torres in <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/19/world/americas/few-in-venezuela-want-bolivars-but-no-one-can-spare-a-dime.html?_r=0" target="_blank">The New York Times</a>. E.T.P. 9'</div>
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Anahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08448183300226731533noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4641453569156943588.post-65969338428237163662015-11-01T11:05:00.001+00:002015-11-01T11:05:12.249+00:00SCIENCE: Relaxing Makes You More Creative<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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You've probably heard the saying "All work and no play makes Jack a
dull boy." I suspect that most people interpret this as a comment on
Jack's personality: He's "dull" because all he can think or talk about
is work.<br />
But that's not what the saying actually means. According to the <a href="http://www.inc.com/geoffrey-james/top-5-neuroscience-discoveries-of-2014.html">latest neuroscience</a>,
overwork makes your brain "dull" in the sense of being the opposite of
"sharp." Overwork, in other words, kills your creativity.<br />
Scientists studying brain scans recently discovered that moments of creativity take place <a href="http://www.creativitypost.com/science/the_aha_moment._the_cognitive_neuroscience_of_insight" target="_blank">when the mind is at rest</a>
rather than working on something. And since creative approaches are so
crucial to success, workaholics are working themselves out a job." That's why you should relax when you procrastinate, you'll probably end up doing a more creative job anyway! Read full article by Geoffrey James in <a href="http://www.inc.com/geoffrey-james/neuroscience-relaxing-makes-you-more-creative.html" target="_blank">INC</a>. E.T.P. 5'</div>
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