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Saturday, April 27, 2019

Europa Cristã?


O Incêndio na Notre Dame e a Destruição da Europa Cristã
por Guy Millière  •  27 de Abril de 2019
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  • Apenas uma hora após as chamas começarem a subir na Catedral de Notre Dame, quando não havia a menor possibilidade de explicar as causas do incêndio, as autoridades francesas se apressaram em adiantar que o incêndio ocorreu em consequência de um "acidente" e "incêndio doloso foi descartado." As declarações soaram como todas e quaisquer declarações oficiais feitas pelo governo francês após a ocorrência de ataques na França na última década.
  • O incêndio na Catedral de Notre Dame ocorre justamente quando ataques contra igrejas na França e na Europa estão se multiplicando. Mais de 800 igrejas foram atacadas na França só no ano de 2018.
  • As igrejas na França estão vazias. O número de padres está diminuindo e os padres que estão na ativa na França estão muito velhos ou vêm da África ou da América Latina. Agora a religião dominante na França é o Islã. Todos os anos igrejas são demolidas para dar lugar a estacionamentos ou shopping centers. Mesquitas estão sendo construídas em todos os lugares e estão lotadas.

O fogo que destruiu grande parte da Catedral de Notre Dame, no coração de Paris, é uma tragédia irreparável. Ainda que a catedral seja reconstruída, ela jamais será a mesma. (Foto: Veronique de Viguerie/Getty Images)
O fogo que destruiu grande parte da Catedral de Notre Dame, no coração de Paris, é uma tragédia irreparável. Ainda que a catedral seja reconstruída, ela jamais será a mesma. Vitrais e importantíssimas estruturas arquitetônicas foram seriamente danificadas e a moldura de carvalho totalmente destruída. A flecha da catedral era uma obra de arte sem igual. Ela foi desenhada pelo arquiteto Eugène Viollet-le-Duc que restaurou a catedral no século XIX, baseando seu trabalho em registros do século XII.
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Reação de um amigo meu - Professor de Direito Canônico: Alexandre Gruszynski:
Vejo que o pensador autor do artigo seja deveras pessimista...   ou tradicionalista?

Há uma informação totalmente errada no texto, a questão da propriedade das igrejas. Na época da Revolução Francesa todas as propriedades da Igreja foram confiscadas (e não em 1905!), e é por isso que Notre Dame de Paris pertence à República Francesa, estando cedida para o culto católico.  Daí que a responsabilidade pela reconstrução seja da República e não da Igreja...    
O que aconteceu em 1905 foi que a partir de uma Lei desse ano as igrejas passaram a poder edificar seus templos (tenho a lei em algum lugar, não vou procurar agora...).  Assim, os locais de culto edificados após 1905 não pertencem ao Estado Francês, mas à comunidade religiosa que os edificou.

A minha primeira reação, que te comuniquei logo que me mandaste a notícia do incêndio (ou vice-versa), foi que teria sido provocado por algum fumante.   E essa hipótese passou a ser uma das consideradas pela investigação em curso.

Não haja dúvida quanto à queda de participação das populações na Igreja, especialmente católica, mas daí partir para acusar os islâmicos....

Imagination is the Essence of Life…

Publicações da viúva de meu amigo John Briscoe

CONCEICAOANDRADE.COM
who was born on a magical island, in the city of Horta. She lived there for several years. Her grandmother, who lived in a village on the other side of the island, would visit her frequently. The grandmother would sit and tell her stories, fairytales of princesses, of good and evil. These stories be...

Friday, April 26, 2019

Too fast Universe

The Universe Is Moving Too Fast and Nobody Knows Why
The Universe Is Moving Too Fast and Nobody Knows Why
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AI: Health Care

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In this exclusive MedPage Today video recorded at the recent American College of Cardiology (ACC) meeting, Kevin Campbell, MD, a cardiologist based in Raleigh, N.C., and CEO of PaceMate, explains how automating data in a clinically actionable way can help patients every day in healthcare.
The following is a transcript of his remarks:
I think there was a huge buzz around the presentation of [the] Apple Heart Study, and I think a couple of takeaway points that we heard from many of us here at ACC is that this is the first thing that has been shown that we can do a large-scale trial virtually, and that's really important in this digital world, that we're seeing the ability to have patients from all over the world enrolled in a trial with a very low cost point. The problem with the Apple Heart Study, though, however, is that now you're creating this mechanism to dump data on physicians and clinicians, and some of this data is not really verified. We don't know how clean the data is, and I think a lot more study needs to be done. I think that really plays to the role of automation and artificial intelligence in medicine, particularly in cardiology.

Marcus Aurelius

Marcus Aurelius

EMPEROR OF ROME
Alternative Titles: Caesar Marcus Aurelius Antoninus Augustus, Marcus Annius Verus
Marcus Aurelius, in full Caesar Marcus Aurelius Antoninus Augustus, original name (until 161 CEMarcus Annius Verus, (born April 26, 121 CERome [Italy]—died March 17, 180, Vindobona [Vienna, Austria] or Sirmium, Pannonia), Roman emperor (161–180 CE), best known for his Meditations on Stoic philosophy. Marcus Aurelius has symbolized for many generations in the West the Golden Age of the Roman Empire.
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Marcus was a statesman, perhaps, but one of no great calibre; nor was he really a sage. In general, he is a historically overrated figure, presiding in a bewildered way over an empire beneath the gilt of which there already lay many a decaying patch. But his personal nobility and dedication survive the most remorseless scrutiny; he counted the cost obsessively, but he did not shrink from paying it./.../



Thursday, April 25, 2019

Propionato



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A common food additive could alter metabolism in ways that could increase the risk of diabetes, a preliminary study suggests.
The study, which involved research in humans and mice, investigated a food additive called propionate, which prevents mold growth and is widely used as a preservative in cheeses, baked goods (including bread) and artificial flavorings.
The study found that, in mice, consumption of propionate led to high blood sugar levels in the short term and weight gain and insulin resistance in the long term. (Insulin resistance means the body doesn't respond well to the hormone insulin, which helps cells take in sugar, or glucose. Such resistance can lead to the high blood sugar levels seen in people with diabetes.)

Nature 150 years

Illustration and quote from James Clerk Maxwell
In 1875, James Clerk Maxwell wrote about the thermodynamic evidence for molecules. Read part one here. (Part two was published a week later.)

150 years at the heart of science

As part of Nature’s 150th anniversary, we’re showcasing 150 articles from the archive, one for each year the journal has been published. Not a definitive list of top research, but a selection of interesting, illuminating, entertaining and sometimes controversial articles selected by the editors through discussion and debate. We'll be posting one article per day over the 150 days leading up to our anniversary issue on 7 November.
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Translating brain signals

Global Health

Richard Horton of The Lancet receives $100,000 Roux Prize

Dr. Richard Horton, the “activist editor” of the international medical journal The Lancet, will be honored June 10 in London for his accomplishments as one of the world’s most “committed, articulate, and influential advocates for population health.”
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Fungos no espaço



A aventura humana pelo espaço está só começando – para falar a verdade, mal saímos do nosso quintal. Mesmo assim, os passos que estamos dando lá fora já estão causando mudanças no ambiente espacial. Uma pesquisa acaba de descobrir que fungos potencialmente perigosos estão vivendo em estações espaciais e espaçonaves no momento, levados para lá provavelmente de carona no corpo dos astronautas. A questão é que não temos ideia se eles são prejudiciais para os seres humanos.

Electric Stimulation: Memory

Electric Stimulation Drastically Improves Memory of Older Folks

The performance of our working memory starts to go down right around the time we finish residency. The older we get, the more difficulty we have forming new memories and holding on to them for a long time. Because it’s still a mystery how the memory system of our brains works, a decline in its function has been mostly accepted as a given fact that’s difficult to do anything about.
Now researchers at Boston University have done something truly amazing, essentially giving 70 year-olds the memory abilities of 20 year-olds. The team applied external electric stimulation to the brains of older adults so as to couple and synchronize the brainwaves throughout different brain regions.
During memory tasks, brain activity associated with working memory lights up in the brain of a 20-year-old (left), but remains dormant in the brain of a person in their 70s (middle). After electrostimulation (right), the 70-year-old’s brain activity mimics the 20-year-old’s. Credit: Reinhart lab/Boston University
Following a 25 minute therapy session, the adults in their 70s, as well as those in their 20s that didn’t receive treatment, were subjected to a simple visual memory task. They were asked to memorize an image and to some time later identify whether a new image shown to them is the same as the original one. The old farts, who just a half hour earlier were pretty weak with the same memory task, were able to perform on the level with their younger counterparts.

Guglielmo Marcon

Guglielmo Marconi, c. 1908.