O Google tem essa ferramenta sensacional - NGrams - que permite ver a evolução da frequência de uso de palavras e expressões, desde 1500, em cerca 5 milhões de livros. A gente descobre coisas surpreendentes, sobre a natureza oculta das palavras e idéias e sobre os espíritos dos séculos.
Por exemplo:
Quem diria... Sexo e Conflito são irmãos e antagonizam com as irmãs Beleza e Juventude.
Cenas explícitas de Yin vs. Yang:
Por sinal, o Século 20 foi o século do sexo e do conflito. Está pintando que o 21 será o da beleza e juventude.
Será?
Thursday, December 4, 2014
Thursday, December 19, 2013
Shicheng
Shicheng has been under water for 53 years since the Xin'an River Hydro Plant flooded the area. The city was founded 1,300 years ago.
Christus Abyssum
Guido Galletti built this statue of Christ in 1954 and placed it into the water at a depth of 55 feet in San Fruttuoso, Italy.
Saturday, October 26, 2013
Monday, December 17, 2012
Art enables and liberates, cripples and enslaves
"Before Dickens there were no fogs, and before Turner no sunsets."
-- Oscar Wilde
"Art enables and liberates its audience, but it can also disable and enslave the subsequent generation of writers."
-- Craig Raine
"In every generation we recognise a leader race of masterminds whose ideas - 'class-struggle', 'Oedipus complex', 'identity crisis' - come down over us like butterfly nets."
-- Saul Bellow
Sunday, December 9, 2012
What little understanding that survives
Education is what survives when what has been learned [taught is] forgotten.
Do you not know, my son, with what little understanding the world is ruled?
B. F. Skinner, New Scientist, May 21, 1964. US psychologist (1904 - 1990)
Do you not know, my son, with what little understanding the world is ruled?
Pope Julius III
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