Leituras da semana - 5/5/12

- New Design From the Milan Furniture Fair
- Panetta Urges Brazil to Buy Fighter Jets From Boeing
- Um idealista realizador [Um médico brasileiro no mundo árabe]
- Brasil: líder mundial em alimentos envenenados
- 5 Common Household Cleaners Hazardous to Your Health
- 20 Ways to Reuse Coffee Grounds and Tea Leaves
- 13 Razões para o Veto Total ao PL 1876/99 do Código Florestal
- Someone Dies. But That Is Only the Beginning [O obtuário do NYT]
- As mudanças na poupança
- Cidade ou hospício? [A loucura do transporte público em São Paulo]

Aprendendo jogando

Crianças de escola estadual de Nova York aprendem sobre pensamento sistêmico no ensino fundamental. Jogando e escrevendo jogos de videogame, se dividindo em diretores, roteiristas, figurinistas e cenógrafas, as crianças aprendem a trabalhar em equipe e a abordar sistemas complexos.



Leia o artigo Learning by Playing no New York Times

Time Out of Mind - Tempo é dinheiro?

"In 1784, Benjamin Franklin composed a satire, “Essay on Daylight Saving,” proposing a law that would oblige Parisians to get up an hour earlier in summer. By putting the daylight to better use, he reasoned, they’d save a good deal of money — 96 million livres tournois — that might otherwise go to buying candles. Now this switch to daylight saving time (which occurs early Sunday in the United States) is an annual ritual in Western countries.

Even more influential has been something else Franklin said about time in the same year: time is money. He meant this only as a gentle reminder not to “sit idle” for half the day. He might be dismayed if he could see how literally, and self-destructively, we take his metaphor today. Our society is obsessed as never before with making every single minute count. People even apply the language of banking: We speak of “having” and “saving” and “investing” and “wasting” it..."

Mais em: The New York Times.

The art of slow reading

Os textos mais e mais curtos e superficiais da internet têm nos feito mais burros? Um número cada vez maior de especialistas acha que sim - e diz que é hora de pisar no freio...

"[...]
So are we getting stupider? Is that what this is about? Sort of. According to The Shallows, a new book by technology sage Nicholas Carr, our hyperactive online habits are damaging the mental faculties we need to process and understand lengthy textual information. Round-the-clock news feeds leave us hyperlinking from one article to the next – without necessarily engaging fully with any of the content; our reading is frequently interrupted by the ping of the latest email; and we are now absorbing short bursts of words on Twitter and Facebook more regularly than longer texts..."

Foto: Eve Arnold, Marilyn Monroe Reading Ulysses,
Long Island, New York, 1954.

Mais em: The Guardian.

Acidic oceans: fish lose ability to smell danger

Além do já conhecido efeito da elevação da acidez dos oceanos nos recifes de coral, agora pesquisadores descrevem os danos ao olfato dos peixes. Em águas mais ácidas, larvas de peixes palhaço e donzela perdem a capacidade de distinguir o cheiro de predadores e se arriscam em águas perigosas. As consequências para essas espécies em um mundo com maiores concentrações de CO2 atmosférico são graves.


Mais em: Telegraph.