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Agora imagina se ele poderia fazer isso na China ou em Cuba voando na companhia aérea estatal?

World Science Festival 2009: Avian Einsteins

How do we learn to speak? What is the connection between language and movement? Join a broad and distinguished panel on an exploration of how striking parallels between bird and human brains are providing sharp new insights into how we acquire language and the links between hearing and movement.

This event was moderated by Faith Salie and features author Jonathan Rosen; neurobiologist Erich Jarvis; scientist and noted bird researcher Irene Pepperberg; professor of comparative cognition at Cambridge University, Nicola Clayton; Head of the Laboratory of Animal Behavior at CUNY, Ofer Tchernichovski; and David Rothenberg, professor of philosophy and music at the New Jersey Institute of Technology.

"Avian Einsteins" also features a special appearance by Snowball, the famous dancing cockatoo, and owner, Irena Schulz.

This event took place on June 13, 2009 in the Skirball Center for the Performing Arts at New York University.

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World Science Festival 2009: Notes & Neurons

Is our response to music hard-wired or culturally determined? Is the reaction to rhythm and melody universal or influenced by environment? Join host John Schaefer, Jamshed Barucha, scientist Daniel Levitin, Professor Lawrence Parsons and musical artist Bobby McFerrin for live performances and cross cultural demonstrations to illustrate music’s note-worthy interaction with the brain and our emotions.

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Dancemos todos

DANCE, MONKEYS, DANCE
by Ernest Cline

There are billions of galaxies in the observable universe
And each of them contains hundreds of billions of stars
In one of these galaxies
Orbiting one of these stars
Lies a little blue planet
And this planet is run by a bunch of monkeys


Now these monkeys don’t think of themselves as monkeys
They don’t even think of themselves as animals
In fact, they love to list all the things that they think
separate them from the animals:
Opposable thumbs
Self-awareness
They use words like Homo Erectus and Australopithecus

You say Toe-mate-o, I say Toe-motto
They’re animals all right
They’re monkeys
Monkeys with high-speed digital fiber-optic technology
But monkeys nevertheless

I mean, they’re clever
You’ve got to give them that
The Pyramids, skyscrapers, phantom jets,
the Great Wall of China
That’s all pretty impressive
For a bunch of monkeys

Monkeys whose brains have evolved
to such an unmanageable size
that it’s now pretty much impossible
for them stay happy for any length of time

In fact, they’re the only animals that think
they’re supposed to be happy
All of the other animals can just be

But it’s not that simple for the monkeys

You see, the monkeys are cursed with consciousness
And so the monkeys are afraid
So the monkeys worry
The monkeys worry about everything
but mostly about what all the other monkeys think
Because the monkeys desperately want to fit in
with the other monkeys

Which is pretty hard to do
because a lot of the monkeys hate each other
This is really what separates them from the other animals
These monkeys hate
They hate monkeys that are different
Monkeys from different places
Monkeys who are a different color

You see, the monkeys feel alone
All six billion of them

Some of the monkeys pay another monkey
to listen to their problems

The monkeys want answers
and the monkeys know they're going to die
So the monkeys make up gods
and then they worship them
Then the monkeys start to argue
over whose made-up god is better
Then the monkeys get really pissed off
and this is usually when the monkeys decide
that it’s a good time to start killing each other

So the monkeys wage war
The monkeys make hydrogen bombs
The monkeys have got their entire planet
wired up to explode

The monkeys just can’t help it

Some of the monkeys play to a sold out crowd of other monkeys

The monkeys make trophies
and then they give them to each other
Like it means something

Some of the monkeys think they've all figured out
Some of the monkeys read Nietzsche
The monkeys argue about Nietzsche
without given any consideration to the fact that Nietzsche
was just another monkey

The monkeys make plans
The monkeys fall in love
The monkeys have sex
and then they make more monkeys

The monkeys make music
and then the monkeys dance
Dance, monkeys, dance

The monkeys make a hell of a lot of noise

The monkeys have so much potential
if they would only apply themselves

The monkeys shave the hair off of their bodies
in blatant denial of their true monkey nature

The monkeys build giant monkey hives that they call "cities"

The monkeys draw a lot of imaginary lines in the dirt

The monkeys are running out of the oil
which is what fuels their precarious civilization

The monkeys are polluting and raping their planet
like there's no tomorrow

The monkeys like to pretend that everything is just fine

Some of the monkeys actually believe that the entire universe was created
for their benefit

As you can see . . . these are some messed up monkeys

These monkeys are at once the ugliest
and the most beautiful creatures on the planet

And the monkeys don’t want to be monkeys
They want to be something else
But they're not.

Rap da Sinapse!

Esse cara produziu um rap sobre transmissão sináptica e foi um dos selecionados ente os melhores videos de divulgação cientifica promovido pela revista The Scientist.

Inacreditável. Me diverti até com isso, não preciso dizer.

E ele tem mais. Confira aqui.

E esse vai para meus amigos do SNA (manja a cara do professor).

E mais esse outro que curti até

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Players of time

Jacob e Esaú? Quem é o anti-Jacob? Seriam eles os jogadores que brincam com o tempo e o destino dos que visitam a ilha? Jacob, o que acredita na humanidade e nas mudanças que os visitantes possam trazer a ilha? Anti-Jacob (Esaú?) o cético que só vê a destruição que o novo trás sem aceitar o que pode renascer disso? Na minha opinião Anti-jacob era o monstro da fumaça e o persoonagem da cabana, que Ben achava que seria Jacob (que ele nunca viu). Preso por Jacob, esperando Locke o "libertar". Locke foi o "loophole", a ambiguidade das regras do jogo. O pedido de socorro a Locke me é sugestivo. "Me ajude a matar Jacob", seria a real intenção, que Locke nunca suspeitou. mas ao mesmo tempo Lock foi ressucitado e levado a ilha por Jacob. Estaria Jacob tramando seu próprio destino trágico? Porque? Seria sua morte necessária para sua libertação? Porquê Jacob traçou a vida dos 6 para levál-los a ilha. Porque ressucutar Locke, mas deixaá-lo paralítico para fazê-lo andar novamente na ilha, se isso foi tudo que seu inimigo precisava? Nem tudo é tão simples, tão preto-e-branco talvez.
Creio que os persongems principais da série só foram introduzidos agora. A série é sobre a ilha e seus habitantes. Os 'losties" são apenas peões no jogo que eles jogam.
E o que é a ilha? Um lugar capaz de se movimentar nas quatro dimensões, um lugar onde o futuro pode ser o passado e o presente qualquer época?
Meu maior palpite: a ilha de Lost seria Atlantida.
Porque? Pelas referencias mitológicas e pelo fato de Atlantida ter sumido no mar, como ocorreu no final da quarta temporada. Será? A ver.
Adão e Eva? Rose e Bernard? Não. Muito óbvio. Não me surpreenderia que fossem Jack e Kate. Mas em que circunstancias eles teriam acabado lá eu não sei, mas seria irônico e no espírito da série.