De Rerum Natura: CINCO CRENÇAS FALSAS SOBRE O CÉREBRO - o meu repost

Um post de um amigo especial: António Piedade sobre mitos que se foram enraizando na chamada Ciência Popular acerca do conhecimento que temos de como funciona o Cérebro Humano.
 O importante a realçar aqui é o facto de os mitos se tornarem crenças e distorcerem o que se sabe ou se pode saber sobre questões ciêntíficas. Como todos bem sabemos a boa Ciência é avessa a crenças cristalizadas que se tornam quase Dogmas. Obrigado pelo excelente Post, António Piedade. 



De Rerum Natura: CINCO CRENÇAS FALSAS SOBRE O CÉREBRO: Artigo primeiramente publicado na imprensa regional. Nas últimas duas décadas assistimos a enormes avanços na nossa compreensão sobr...

Steve Teixeira of Microsoft interviewed at Solid 2014

                       

First case and Coppola Comment

I re-post here today a first, in what I hope will be many more to come, an entry in the excellent Blog of Frances Coppola named Coppola Comment.



Today's post is about the recent developments with Deutsche Bank, the giant German financial institution, which is a systemic one, critically important to the European and Global Financial Markets landscape and that promises the transform and significantly influence the future of the Banking sector and the broader Financial Markets.



It is worth to follow Mrs. Coppola advice and read her piece in Forbes Magazine on-line, that is available in the post by a link.





Coppola Comment: Deutsche Bank's latest capital raising won't end i...: My latest post at Forbes looks at the troubled Deutsche Bank and its latest attempt to improve its capital ratio: Deutsche Bank has final...

Apoio ao Manifesto ''Nunca Mais''!

Tara Perdida &Tim-Lisboa com EdgarBlogshepre!

Olá Lisboa! Um fantástico dia para Edgarblogshere!

Creativity in the cloud in the Edgarsphere.

'' While it is easy to contemplate the possibilities of the cloud, just
what does this massive decentralization of data mean for the way we work
and interact with one another? The FT's Christopher Booker speaks with
designers about how the cloud is changing the way their creative
process is done. ''

Don't give up 'cause you have friends

 

A very good week of work, prosperity and happiness to all my friends!

 

Post by P!nk Australia.

John Rogers: Making optoelectronics less invasive in the body

An excellent addition to the Blogsphere (which is being left alone these days...). But the post is well worth a return. I hope to post more over the region in the near future....

Rise of Professional Massive Learning

A very interesting post from Information Week magazine. The continuing relevance of Massive On-line Open Courses that seems to be increasingly important fro productivity and professional performance.


Rise Of The Corporate MOOC (via InformationWeek)

It's not your father's corporate training. EdX wants to help companies offer their own massive open online courses to keep employees' skills updated. For corporations, massive open online courses, or MOOCs, matter because they might become a major source…

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Something Ventured Movie Trailer

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Securing data edge

In our times of Big Data for big rewards, at least potentially, there's also the threat of big security issues surrounding that massive wealth of information. This videos highlights this and reminds us all to the need for security. FT's Connected Business talks to Vijay Raghavan, Chief Technology Officer at LexisNexis and this companny approach wich tries to strike a balance between the security needs of Financial Services  companies and the required and mandatory privacy of customers.

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Avenida da Liberdade

Um muito interessante Blog em Blogger. Com um nome inspirador e com a contribuicao aqui de entrada de José Ribeiro e Castro que julgo ser o seu principal impulsionador. Ou um dos principais.

Avenida da Liberdade: Avivar a memória:   Com estas novidades todas do segundo fôlego à coligação, da recomposição e remodelação do Governo, do novo ciclo e da moção de confia...

What makes us Human....?!

A privilege to be able to post this Video. From UC TV (University of California), that a simple e-mail subscription gives access to. Congratulations to UC and to Youtube! 

Dr Chris Tisdell

I have the privilege of having been a subscriber to Dr. Chris Tisdell's Youtube Channel for the last couple of years, and I can assure it is highly recommendable. Here Dr. Tisdell appears giving his opinion and defense of on-line learning.

Lincoln's Gettysburg Address

With no further comments, whether in English or in Portuguese!

Sobre o site: 'De Rerum Natura'

Apresento neste post um Blog que é também do Blogger e que trata de Natureza e Ciencia. Em Portugues é sempre muito bom e refrescante:

http://dererummundi.blogspot.pt/2013/06/novo-programa-doutoral-em-historia-das.html

ReBlogging this:'The Physics of Finance: The War on Reality'

The Physics of Finance: The War on Reality: If you're at all disturbed (I am) by the various recent revelations over massive data trolling by government agencies, you should re...

The Celebration of Creativity and Innovation

The Story of.....Ken Burns

Ken Burns: On Story from Redglass Pictures on Vimeo.

Incredible Stories Documented in Film

Everything is Incredible, Film About a Disabled Honduran Man Who Has Been Building A Homemade Helicopter from Tyler Bastian on Vimeo.