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quarta-feira, 30 de dezembro de 2015
«Dar confiança a quem investiu no conhecimento é a única solução para travar a fuga de cérebros do País» :: Notícia :: Ministro da Ciência, Tecnologia e Ensino Superior :: Governo de Portugal
«Dar confiança a quem investiu no conhecimento é a única solução para travar a fuga de cérebros do País» :: Notícia :: Ministro da Ciência, Tecnologia e Ensino Superior :: Governo de Portugal: "afirmou o Ministro da Ciência, Tecnologia e Ensino Superior, Manuel Heitor, acrescentando que a melhoria das condições para fazer investigação científica é um tema que, «obviamente, está incluído no programa de Governo». Estas declarações foram feitas no final do Fórum Anual de Graduados Portugueses no Estrangeiro, em Guimarães.
Sublinhando que «a aposta no conhecimento é o nosso único compromisso com o futuro», o Ministro acrescentou: «Por isso é que estudando mais, formando mais, aprendendo mais, podemos contribuir, não apenas para reverter essa situação, mas para que Portugal se transforme, como já foi, num local para atrair investigadores».
Sobre o estatuto dos investigadores, Manuel Heitor lembrou que «é uma das nossas preocupações, que requer um esforço gradual das instituições de adaptação a um cenário e a um contexto internacional bastante diferente daquele que havia quando o estatuto foi definido», em 1999.
O Ministro referiu ainda que este grupo de profissionais «requer uma melhor integração entre o estatuto de investigador e o estatuto de docente do ensino superior» e isso «está claramente na agenda do Governo, mas exige um debate com vários atores, nomeadamente os sindicatos e as próprias instituições de investigação». «São precisas políticas novas para que Portugal volte a ser um espaço de referência na investigação», realçou.
E concluiu: «Estamos claramente a reforçar o quadro da formação avançada e do emprego científico, e esperamos também poder contribuir significativamente para ajudar a modernizar o sistema politécnico que, juntamente com o sistema universitário, são críticos para melhor atrair o quadro de qualificação para Portugal»."
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segunda-feira, 28 de dezembro de 2015
Euclid Consortium | A space mission to map the Dark Universe
Euclid Consortium | A space mission to map the Dark Universe:
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College Astronomy Class Imaging Project - Sky & Telescope
College Astronomy Class Imaging Project - Sky & Telescope: "College Astronomy Class Imaging Project"
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Ain’t no stopping us now, there’s a new buzz about space travel | The Sunday Times
Ain’t no stopping us now, there’s a new buzz about space travel | The Sunday Times: "Ain’t no stopping us now, there’s a new buzz about space travel"
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domingo, 27 de dezembro de 2015
Nativity Hymns-Coptic Rite
Nb. I do thank indeed my Fellow Colleague and Friend, Prof. Luis Taborda Barata for this brilliant ''medley". #1 above. Other are following soon.
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sexta-feira, 25 de dezembro de 2015
The Jungle Book Official Trailer #1 (2016) Scarlett Johansson Live-Actio...
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GGI - Galileo Galilei Institute for Theoretical Physics
GGI - Galileo Galilei Institute for Theoretical Physics: "Abstract
The workshop will be centred around the latest developments in Supergravity, that after four decades since its discovery keeps providing new insights into String Theory, Physics beyond the Standard Model and Cosmology.
Recent exciting results on the structure of the early universe and quantum gravity call for a thorough investigation of supergravity scenarios that today can be confronted with experimental data in cosmology. The unexpected finiteness unveiled by quantum calculations hints to some underlying structure yet to be understood. We have a detailed knowledge on classifying possible actions of supergravity, but recent results have shown that the embedding tensor formalism allows more solutions than we would have expected. Moreover this concerns only actions with up to two space-time derivatives, while the plethora of possibilities for higher-derivative actions is yet to be explored. Solutions of supergravity equations are crucial in the context of gauge-gravity duality, and towards understanding the quantum properties of black holes and other extended objects. These also have deep connections to corners of modern mathematics, where techniques of localisation in supergravity allow to analyse the non perturbative quantum corrections to black hole entropy and to improve our understanding of supersymmetric field theories.
Topics
- Cosmological applications to inflationary scenarios in relation with new observational data.
- Exceptional structures of supergravity, exotic branes, and non-geometric fluxes.
- Extensions of presently-known supergravities, including higher-derivative, or Dirac--Born--Infeld actions.
- Quantum supergravity, including the conclusions to be drawn from surprising finiteness results.
- Solutions of supergravity equations, including black holes and domain walls and implications for gauge-gravity dualities.
-Mathematical aspects of supergravity, including hidden symmetries and dualities."
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21st International Conference on General Relativity and Gravitation, New York
21st International Conference on General Relativity and Gravitation, New York: "GR21
21ST INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON GENERAL RELATIVITY AND GRAVITATION
COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY, NEW YORK"
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Apollo 8 Genesis reading - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Apollo 8 Genesis reading - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia:
Nb. Interesting Supreme Court ruling:
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Nb. Interesting Supreme Court ruling:
Lawsuit[edit]
Madalyn Murray O'Hair, founder of American Atheists, responded by suing the United States government, alleging violations of the First Amendment.[5] The Supreme Court dismissed the suit due to lack of jurisdiction.[6]
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NASA | Earthrise: The 45th Anniversary - YouTube
NASA | Earthrise: The 45th Anniversary - YouTube: "In December of 1968, the crew of Apollo 8 became the first people to leave our home planet and travel to another body in space. But as crew members Frank Borman, James Lovell, and William Anders all later recalled, the most important thing they discovered was Earth."
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Lèse humanité | The Economist
Lèse humanité | The Economist:
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What happened when slaves and free men were shipwrecked together
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This American tourist's list of observations about small-town Britain has gone surprisingly viral
This American tourist's list of observations about small-town Britain has gone surprisingly viral:
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Scott Waters from Florida visited the UK for the fourth time a few weeks ago.
Staying with family and friends, the artist and photographer made his way to London, Oxford, Cornwall and Leicestershire taking in what the country has to offer visitors.
While some of his observations - like thinking Cornwall is a country and that "Black people are just people: they didn’t quite do slavery here" are not really that accurate - he got some other stuff spot on, namely:
- Cake is one of the major food groups
- The pubs close too early
- The newspapers can be awful
Amen.
Scott's findings clearly struck a nerve with Anglophiles online, because his post has at time of writing been shared 76,000 times.
Speaking to BuzzFeed, Waters said that his favourite thing about the UK is Cornish pasties, and his least favourite thing is Birmingham.
Check out his other musings below:
- Almost everyone is very polite
- The food is generally outstanding
- There are no guns
- There are too many narrow stairs
- Everything is just a little bit different
- The pubs close too early
- The reason they drive on the left is because all their cars are built backwards
- Pubs are not bars, they are community living rooms.
- You’d better like peas, potatoes and sausage
- Refrigerators and washing machines are very small
- Everything is generally older, smaller and shorter
- People don’t seem to be afraid of their neighbours or the government Their paper money makes sense, the coins don’t
- Everyone has a washing machine but driers are rare Hot and cold water faucets. Remember them?
- Pants are called “trousers”, underwear are “pants” and sweaters are “jumpers”
- The bathroom light is a string hanging from the ceiling
- “Fanny” is a naughty word, as is “shag”
- All the signs are well designed with beautiful typography and written in full sentences with proper grammar.
- There’s no dress code
- Doors close by themselves, but they don’t always open
- They eat with their forks upside down
- The English are as crazy about their gardens as Americans are about cars
- They don’t seem to use facecloths or napkins or maybe they’re just neater then we are
- The wall outlets all have switches, some don’t do anything
- There are hardly any cops or police cars
- 5,000 years ago, someone arranged a lot of rocks all over, but no one is sure why
- When you do see police they seem to be in male & female pairs and often smiling
- Black people are just people: they didn’t quite do slavery here
- Everything comes with chips, which are French fries. You put vinegar on them
- Cookies are “biscuits” and potato chips are “crisps”
- HP sauce is better then catsup
- Obama is considered a hero, Bush is considered an idiot.
- After fish and chips, curry is the most popular food
- The water controls in showers need detailed instructions
- They can boil anything
- Folks don’t always lock their bikes
- It’s not unusual to see people dressed different and speaking different languages
- Your electronic devices will work fine with just a plug adapter
- Nearly everyone is better educated then we are
- If someone buys you a drink you must do the same
- There are no guns
- Look right, walk left. Again; look right, walk left. You’re welcome.
- Avoid British wine and French beer
- It’s not that hard to eat with the fork in your left hand with a little practice. If you don’t, everyone knows you’re an American
- Many of the roads are the size of our sidewalks
- There’s no AC Instead of turning the heat up, you put on a jumper
- Gas is “petrol”, it costs about $6 a gallon and is sold by the litre
- If you speed on a motorway, you get a ticket. Period. Always
- You don’t have to tip, really!
- Scotland, Wales, Ireland and Cornwall really are different countries
- Only 14% of Americans have a passport,everyone in the UK does
- You pay the price marked on products because the taxes (VAT) are built in
- Walking is the national pastime
- Their TV looks and sounds much better then ours
- They took the street signs down during WWII, but haven’t put them all back up yet
- Everyone enjoys a good joke
- There are no guns
- Dogs are very well behaved and welcome everywhere
- There are no window screens
- You can get on a bus and end up in Paris
- Everyone knows more about our history then we do
- Radio is still a big deal. The BBC is quite good
- The newspapers can be awful
- Everything costs the same but our money is worth less so you have to add 50% to the price to figure what you’re paying
- Beer comes in large, completely filled, actual pint glasses and the closer the brewery the better the beer
- Butter and eggs aren’t refrigerated
- The beer isn’t warm, each style is served at the proper temperature
- Cider (alcoholic) is quite good.
- Excess cider consumption can be very painful.
- The universal greeting is “Cheers” (pronounced “cheeahz” unless you are from Cornwall, then it’s “chairz”)
- The money is easy to understand: 1-2-5-10-20-50 pence, then-£1-£2-£5-£10, etc bills. There are no quarters.
- Their cash makes ours look like Monopoly money
- Cars don’t have bumper stickers
- Many doorknobs, buildings and tools are older than America
- By law, there are no crappy, old cars
- When the sign says something was built in 456, they didn’t lose the “1”
- Cake is pudding, ice cream is pudding, anything served for dessert is pudding, even pudding
- BBC 4 is NPR
- Everything closes by 1800 (6pm)
- Very few people smoke, those who do often roll their own
- You’re defined by your accent
- No one in Cornwall knows what the hell a Cornish Game Hen is
- Soccer is a religion, religion is a sport
- Europeans dress better then the British, we dress worse
- The trains work: a three minute delay is regrettable
- Drinks don’t come with ice
- There are far fewer fat English people
- There are a lot of healthy old folks around participating in life instead of hiding at home watching TV
- If you’re over 60, you get free tv and bus and rail passes. -They don’t use Bose anything anywhere
- Displaying your political or religious affiliation is considered very bad taste
- Every pub has a pet drunk
- Their healthcare works, but they still bitch about it
- Cake is one of the major food groups
- Their coffee is mediocre but theirtea is wonderful
- There are still no guns
- Towel warmers!
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quarta-feira, 23 de dezembro de 2015
Wintry ginger & chocolate cookies & muffin meal
Quite nice. Actually. Given that I did not know who or what was being tested. The cookies. Me. Both. A very in vivo (?) lab test...
domingo, 20 de dezembro de 2015
In The Bleak Midwinter : Choir of Kings College, Cambridge
Nb. I know, I know, I am just a pedantic snob. But, well, I still need to go back and find my old bike, forgot it. Still there. Black cat and all that. Enjoy. I surely did. This and many others.
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Smooth (fm) jazzy sleepy cat
On a grey ceiling sky on a early working Sunday morning. Valete, Frates.
sábado, 19 de dezembro de 2015
sexta-feira, 18 de dezembro de 2015
My students have paid £9,000 and now they think they own me | Higher Education Network | The Guardian
My students have paid £9,000 and now they think they own me | Higher Education Network | The Guardian: "My students have paid £9,000 and now they think they own me
The government has turned students into customers who have no respect for academics and refuse to work for their grades"
really?
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really?
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The 10 best universities for graduate employment - in pictures | Education | The Guardian
The 10 best universities for graduate employment - in pictures | Education | The Guardian: "10. Ecole Polytechnique, France
Created in 1794 during the French Revolution, Ecole Polytechnique is a university near Paris in France. It specialises in civil engineering and makes the top 10 largely due to a strong employer presence on campus."
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