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Sunday, December 05, 2010

70 anos de cinema

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Tudo o que você quiser saber (ou lembrar) sobre filmes estrangeiros em 65 anos está catalogado e ao seu alcance.  Ficha completa de filmes.
70anos de cinema, ao contrário da grande maioria dos sites sobre a Sétima Arte, cujas construção e manutenção são realizadas por uma equipe de profissionais, é o resultado de um trabalho individual iniciado em 2003 como um simples passatempo e, principalmente, sem qualquer interesse comercial. 

Inicialmente denominado “60 Anos de Cinema” e completamente desconhecido do público que navega pela Internet, o site “estourou” em junho de 2007, àquela época já com a denominação de “65 Anos de Cinema”, ocasião em que ocorreram mais de 90.000 acessos em um único mês, com mais de 5.000 visitas em um só dia, feitas a partir de cidades dos 5 continentes.


wrong scientific beliefs

THALER'S QUESTION
The flat earth and geocentric world are examples of wrong scientific beliefs that were held for long periods. Can you name your favorite example and for extra credit why it was believed to be true?


the emperor had no clothes

Quotes of the Day

"Just as in the children's fable, they knew the emperor had no clothes but looked the other way, allowing the fraud to continue."
DEBORAH RENNER,
a partner at Baker & Hostetler, on a lawsuit filed against JPMorgan; the suit alleges the bank ignored well-documented suspicions about fraudster Bernie Madoff and continued to collect fees and profits

TimeFrames

TimeFrames

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Making Sense of a Turbulent Decade

The end of history? More like the start. The 21st century runs on fast-forward, and the only way to keep up is to stop and figure out what really happened More »


Read more: http://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/0,28757,2032304,00.html?xid=newsletter-daily#ixzz17FJ645jB

Saturday, December 04, 2010

Body-Mass Index and Mortality


Body-Mass Index and Mortality among 1.46 Million White Adults

Amy Berrington de Gonzalez, D.Phil., Patricia Hartge, Sc.D., James R. Cerhan, Ph.D., Alan J. Flint, Dr.P.H., Lindsay Hannan, M.S.P.H., Robert J. MacInnis, Ph.D., Steven C. Moore, Ph.D., Geoffrey S. Tobias, B.S., Hoda Anton-Culver, Ph.D., Laura Beane Freeman, Ph.D., W. Lawrence Beeson, Dr.P.H., Sandra L. Clipp, M.P.H., Dallas R. English, Ph.D., Aaron R. Folsom, M.D., D. Michal Freedman, Ph.D., Graham Giles, Ph.D., Niclas Hakansson, Ph.D., Katherine D. Henderson, Ph.D., Judith Hoffman-Bolton, Jane A. Hoppin, Sc.D., Karen L. Koenig, Ph.D., I-Min Lee, Sc.D., Martha S. Linet, M.D., Yikyung Park, Sc.D., Gaia Pocobelli, M.S., Arthur Schatzkin, M.D., Howard D. Sesso, Sc.D., Elisabete Weiderpass, Ph.D., Bradley J. Willcox, M.D., Alicja Wolk, Dr.

CONCLUSIONS

In white adults, overweight and obesity (and possibly underweight) are associated with increased all-cause mortality. All-cause mortality is generally lowest with a BMI of 20.0 to 24.9.Med.Sci., Anne Zeleniuch-Jacquotte, M.D., Walter C. Willett, M.D., Dr.P.H., and Michael J. Thun, M.D.
N Engl J Med 2010; 363:2211-2219December 2, 2010


women as an economic factor

O risco da avaliação por critérios econômicos!...


The labor of women in the house, certainly, enables men to produce more wealth than they otherwise could; and in this way women are economic factors in society. But so are horses.

Friday, December 03, 2010

Humanity+


HUMANITY+ NEWS
HUMANITY+ IS THE WORLD'S LEADING NONPROFIT DEDICATED TO THE ETHICAL USE OF TECHNOLOGY TO EXTEND HUMAN CAPABILITIES.


arsenic-based bacterium

NASA discovery expands scope of SETI research

December 2, 2010 by Editor
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Bacterium GFAJ-1 grown on arsenic. (J. Switzer Blum)
Evidence that the toxic element arsenic can replace the essential nutrient phosphorus in biomolecules of a naturally occurring bacterium expands the scope of the search for life beyond Earth, according to Arizona State University scientists who are part of a NASA-funded research team reporting findings in the Dec. 2 online Science Express.
It is well established that all known life requires phosphorus, usually in the form of inorganic phosphate. In recent years, however, astrobiologists, including Arizona State University professors Ariel Anbar and Paul Davies, have stepped up conversations about alternative forms of life.
Anbar and Davies are coauthors of the new paper, along with ASU associate research scientist Gwyneth Gordon. The lead author is Felisa Wolfe-Simon, a former postdoctoral scientist in Anbar’s research group at ASU’s School of Earth and Space Exploration and Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences./.../

AHA 2010 research highlights: A slideshow presentation

The FP Top 100 Global Thinkers


Foreign Policy presents a unique portrait of 2010's global marketplace of ideas and the thinkers who make them.


JAMA's Online Evolution


  • Margaret A. Winker, MD; 

  • Catherine D. DeAngelis, MD, MPH 

  • Author Affiliations: Dr Winker (margaret.winker@jama-archives.org) is Deputy Editor and Dr DeAngelis is Editor in Chief, JAMA.

    Since this article does not have an abstract, we have provided the first 150 words of the full text.
    JAMA.com has a new look, with an updated interface and more contextual information. With every page a home page, readers coming to JAMA in the most frequent way—directly to an article from Google or PubMed—can scan the titles of the latest issue as well as the most viewed and most cited articles. Readers can view figures in the context of the article page rather than open a new page. Fewer clicks are required: as readers scroll over titles on the table of contents page, the abstract pops up; as they scroll over reference links, the citation appears. Readers are pressed for time and seconds count; the new design helps readers save time as they browse. JAMA.com will continue to evolve in the coming months.
    JAMA now publishes more articles online ahead of print than ever before, and free e-mail alerts or RSS feeds are the most efficient way to learn …