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agosto 29, 2013
23:55
Los hermanos trinitarios
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Yo me los imagino diciéndose uno a otro: "¿Para qué queremos estrategia, si ya tenemos principios?", y me entra el pánico.
21:06
El encierro, en Virginia
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Aunque no es eso, no es eso...
For some, life just isn’t complete without partaking in a beer-soaked rodeo and food fight modeled after a centuries-old Spanish tradition. And so on August 24, the inaugural Great Bull Run thundered into central Virginia, the first of nine such events that will take place in cities nationwide between now and next summer. The franchise aims to bring a taste of Pamplona, Spain’s famous San Fermin Festival to the United States, on the premise that being chased through a crowd by a herd of livestock is just so thrilling that it ought to be commercialized, made accessible, bottled, and sold to anyone over the age of eighteen who can sign a waiver.
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15:26
Arthur C. Clarke Narrates Film on Mandelbrot’s Fractals; David Gilmour Provides the Soundtrack
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Para usted, amigo.

In 1995, Sir Arthur C. Clarke, the futurist and science fiction writer most well known for his novel 2001: A Space Odyssey, presented a television documentary on the 1980 discovery of the Mandelbrot Set (M-Set). Fractals: The Colors of Infinity brings us inside the world of fractal geometry, and soon enough we’re encountering what has been called “the thumbprint of God” and some of the most beautiful discoveries in the history of mathematics. Clarke narrates the 54-minute film, which includes interviews with important mathematicians, including Benoît Mandelbrothimself. David Gilmour, the guitarist for Pink Floyd, provides the soundtrack. It’s hard to imagine a more perfect combination. Fractals: The Colors of Infinity first appeared on Open Culture back in 2010, which means that a second viewing is long overdue. A book closely related to the film can be purchased here: The Colours of Infinity: The Beauty, The Power and the Sense of Fractals.Vía OPEN CULTURA
8:08
Pablo Abraira y Obama
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Por decirlo con palabras de Pablo Abraira: ¿Qué es Obama, gavilán o paloma? ¿Fue gavilán queriendo ser paloma? ¿Fue paloma queriendo ser gavilán? ¿Sabe lo que es? ¿Es "aquél", como Raphael? Estoy intentando leer cuanto puedo del debate abierto en los medios norteamericanos entorno a la posible intervención en Siria (esa gran idea de defender el derecho internacional saltándose el derecho internacional) y descubro que los norteamericanos no saben qué es exactamente su presidente. Hago una excepción con Patrick J. Buchanan, que lo ha calificado de "Wyatt Earp de l'Aldea Global." Normal 0 21 false false false ES-TRAD JA X-NONE /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-name:"Tabla normal"; mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; mso-style-noshow:yes; mso-style-priority:99; mso-style-parent:""; mso-padding-alt:0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; mso-para-margin:0cm; mso-para-margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman";}

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El café de Ocata (4 sin leer)

Los hermanos trinitarios

El encierro, en Virginia

Arthur C. Clarke Narrates Film on Mandelbrot’s Fractals; David Gilmour Provides the Soundtrack

Pablo Abraira y Obama