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Quora Question: What Is It About Rachel Maddow That Liberals Find So Captivating
She is a Rhodes Scholar, turned down a Marshall Scholarship, has a Doctorate in Political Science, a bachelor’s in public policy. She is articulate, she is intelligent and she says things like this: I'm undoubtedly a liberal, which means that I'm in almost total agreement with the Eisenhower-era Republican party platform.
Eisenhower, The Military-Industrial Complex And "Humanity Hanging From A Cross Of Iron"
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Historian Friend Tom Magnuson Describes Putin's Destruction Of The United States
I repeat, that when the history of the empire's collapse is written the one hero of the tale will be Vladimir Putin, not just because the winners write history but also because his take down was brilliant.
It avoided MAD (mutually assured destructeion), and without a shot destroyed the greatest empire the world has ever known.
He spent a few billions buying US politicians, provided a set of priorities, and let them destroy their own country.
It remains to be seen whether or not the GOP can complete its attempt to impose a one-party, two-class, apartheid regime in America.
[Hmm, employing this lens on Roman history might show that the barbarians did something quite similar.]
Tom Magnuson, Marine Vietnam vet and Duke-trained historian
"Trump-Putin In 2020"
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Why Have Trump And McConnell Done NOTHING To Combat Russian Meddling In 2020 Election?
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Trump Just Ousted The Director Of National Intelligence For Warning Congress About Dire Threat
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"You Still Don't Get It?"
Trump Colludes By The INACTION Of NOT OBSTRUCTING Putin's Meddling
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Whistleblower Chris Wylie Explains How Cambridge Analytica Helped Fuel U.S. "Insurgency"
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Trump Is A National Security Threat: What Should We Do About It
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Trump Is A National Security Threat: What Should We Do About It
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Urgently Needed Article Of Impeachment: Trump Is A National Security Threat
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Urgently Needed Article Of Impeachment: Trump Is A National Security Threat
https://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2019/11/urgently-needed-article-of-impeachment.html
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"When Conservatives Realized They Could No Longer Win National Elections Honestly..."
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A Guy Goes Up To A Nurse And Asks: "How Much Do You Make?"
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New Yorker Cartoon Caption Contest #708, May, 2020
"I have a wife to do that. Of course, the sex is terrible."
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More Scumbucketry From The Party That Routinely Sodomizes Its Constituents
And, the Republican Base brings its own K-Y!
Republican-led states signal they could strip workers’ unemployment benefits if they don’t return to work, sparking fresh safety fears
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What Kind Of Mold Is Okay On Cheese, And What Kind...Isn’t?
What Kind of Mold Is Okay on Cheese, and What Kind...Isn’t?
Sometimes you can just cut it off and get grating, but other times, not so much BY APRIL 27, 2018.
Bon Appétit Magazine and Webpage: https://www.bonappetit.com/story/is-moldy-cheese-okay
We’ve all been there. You’re exploring the murky depths of your messy-ass fridge, sifting through treats and terrors in hopes of finding some suitable dinner material, when it appears: A hunk of cheese sporting a definitely-not-there-when-you-bought-it polka-dot coat of fuzzy mold. And then the bargaining begins. Moldy cheese, like all other moldy foods, should go in the garbage, you think to yourself quite reasonably. But then: Maybe that’s...okay? Like, blue cheese has mold on it, and that’s okay to eat, right? Can’t I just cut the gross-looking stuff off? Around and around we go, the menu for the evening oscillating between cheesy pasta—delicious, but maybe...deadly?—and some tired canned-bean business. This is exactly the kind of high-stakes negotiation that exactly no one has bandwidth for on a Tuesday night.
Enough! No more! There are answers to this whole is-moldy-cheese-safe business, and we must have them! We talked to Rich Morillo, a certified cheese professional (that’s a thing!) and the cheese operations manager (also a great title!) for Di Bruno Bros., Philadelphia's O.G. cheese shop—to find out what the deal is with moldy cheese and whether it belongs in the trash can or a baking dish. The answers? Kind of surprising, TBH.
The first thing you’ve got to understand is that, by and large, microorganisms like mold are what makes cheese, well, cheese. “In a lot of ways, cheese is mold,” explains Morillo. With the notable exception of fresh cheeses that are meant to be consumed shortly after they are made (mozzarella, ricotta, queso fresco, etc.), most cheeses owe their distinct deliciousness and texture to the microbiological alchemy that occurs when mold, bacteria, and other microorganisms feast on the proteins and sugars present in milk, transforming them into a wide range of flavorful compounds. (Science is cool!)
And while this whole cheese-is-mold business might be pretty obvious when you’re staring down a blue-veined hunk of stinky Stilton, you’ve also probably seen it—and eaten it—without even knowing it. You know that thick white rind on the outside of a wheel of brie? That’s mold, people! (Penicillium candidum to be more precise.) “Brie starts off looking like a disc of fresh cheese, then grows a whole lot of fuzzy white mold,” describes Morillo. “They call it ‘cat’s fur,’ and the cheesemaker literally pats all the mold down, flips the cheese over, and lets the process repeat.” The result is the savory, mushroomy white rind that makes brie and other so-called “bloomy rind” cheeses delicious but also different from all other cheeses.
That white rind is MOLD! And it is DELICIOUS!
ALEX LAUIn a lot of ways, the job of the cheesemaker and the cheesemonger is mold maintenance—making sure the right kind of mold is growing in the right place at the right time and intervening when necessary. “You’re babysitting and letting nature do its work,” Morillo says. “In the shop, one of the first things we do in the morning is check on the cheese and see if any mold has grown over the course of the night. We want the cheese to look nice for the customers, and a lot of people are squeamish around mold, so if we see a fluffy column of mold or a few specs of blue growing on the cut side of a wedge of cheese, we slice or scrape it off.”
According to Morillo, it’s pretty rare that you’ll find mold growing on cheese that actually presents a health concern. With the exception of a few types that are actually quite rare to find on cheese, such as the dark black-gray mold Aspergillus niger, most mold isn’t going to hurt you at all. But that doesn’t mean that you want to eat it necessarily. Just as the molds that are a part of the cheesemaking process are integral to the flavor and texture of the finished cheese, the mold that might grow all over that chunk of cheddar you forgot about in the back of the fridge might compromise it; whether or not it tastes bad to you, the mold-affected part of that cheese isn’t going to taste the way it was meant to taste necessarily. If the cheesemaker and cheesemonger are meticulous mold babysitters, you, cheese-in-the-back-of-the-fridge-forgetter, are the irresponsible teen told to stay home with your younger sister to make sure she doesn’t get electrocuted—you’re not doing irreparable damage, but you’re probably not helping things all that much, either.
Just cut it off! Everything is going to be FINE!
PHOTO BY ALEX LAU, FOOD STYLING BY ANNA BILLINGSKOGSo what to do about that pesky, maybe-less-than-yummy mold growing on the cheese in your fridge? Well, most of the time you can simply cut it off and go on living your life. Mac 'n' cheese it up. Grilled cheese yourself. Whatevs. How much you have to cut off has to do with what kind of cheese you’re working with. Like mushrooms and other fungi, mold grows roots kind of like a houseplant—the fuzzy stuff you see growing on the exterior might have little tendrils that go down deep. How far those mold roots are able to penetrate depends on how dry or moist your cheese is. Microorganisms thrive in wet environments and are less active in dry ones, which means that, for the most part, mold roots will barely be able to penetrate the surface of a hard, salty cheese like Parmesan or a crumbly, long-aged cheddar but will be able to get deeper into a semisoft cheese like, say, Havarti or a mild cheddar. And as for extremely wet, fresh cheeses like mozzarella, ricotta, cream cheese, or chèvre, Morillo recommends pitching them if you see visible mold—again, not going to kill you, but the mold will most definitely have changed the flavor of the cheese, and probably not in a good way.
Okay, let’s recap. Mold is an integral part of the cheesemaking process. Almost none of it will kill you, but it could negatively impact the flavor and texture of the cheese it’s growing on or at the very least make it taste pretty different from how it was supposed to. Most of the time, if you see some mold, you can just cut it off—about an inch around and below the mold spot, if you want to be really rigorous about it—especially if you’re working with a harder cheese. Still grossed out? Throw it out. That’s what Morillo tells customers who seem especially skeptical of the whole cutting-mold-off-of-cheese thing. “If you think the mold is going to make you feel some type of way, well, it probably will.”
What’re you waiting for? Cut the white spots off that Parm and get grating!
Nutritionists cut the cheese on whether or not you can eat mold…on cheese
My entire life, I’ve thought that cheese is a form of mold. But then, last night I adventured into my refrigerator looking for a cheesy snack, only to pull out my fave crumbled parmesan to sprinkle on something. I ate it, and when I was finished and putting the container away, I… saw that there was actual mold on the cheese—as in, little blue flecks that I was horrified that I had just consumed.
To see whether I was minutes away from dying or not, I immediately sought a nutritionist’s take on the matter. First of all, some types of cheese are meant to be made with mold, according to Lisa Richards, certified nutritionist and author of The Candida Diet. “These include various types of blue cheese, as well as brie and camembert,” she says. Then, similar to mold, it takes several types of fungus to make cheese. “These are mostly from the Penicillium family,” she explains. “For example, brie and camembert are made using Penicillium camemberti. Cheeses made from mold tend to be the softer varieties.”
More live stuff lives in cheese too—like bacteria. “Most cheeses are made with bacteria, using live cultures from the Lactococcus, Lactobacillus, or Streptococcus families,” says Richards. “These are more likely to be harder cheeses like cheddar or parmesan.” Fun fact: Some of these probiotic cultures used in cheesemaking are the type you’ll find in your probiotic supplements.
But here’s the thing—the types of cheeses made with bacteria are also likely to contain small amounts of harmless mold, according to Richards. “It’s difficult to completely exclude mold from the environment in which cheese is made, and to some extent it’s part of the natural, microbiological process of making cheese,” she says. Well, this is good news. It also turns out that people have been eating mold and fungus (via cheese) for, like, ever. “If you like cheeses like camembert or roquefort, you are already eating mold and that’s okay,” says Richards. “The varieties of fungus used for these cheeses are harmless and have been eaten for centuries.”
On the other hand, if you find mold on a hard cheese—like cheddar or parmesan, for example—Richards says to use caution. “These molds are unlikely to be harmful, but there are some varieties that can negatively affect your health,” she says. “Aspergillus niger, also known as black mold, is one type of mold that can cause a number of respiratory symptoms. It’s rarely seen on cheese, but it does occasionally happen.” On the occasion in which you see this, she says it’s fine to just cut around it. “Cut an inch around the mold and discard that piece—mold doesn’t spread easily in hard, dry cheeses, so the rest should be fine,” says Richards.
If you’re seeing mold on soft cheeses though, don’t continue to use it on your cauliflower pizza. “Soft cheeses like mozzarella, ricotta, and chèvre are a different matter—they provide an environment that contains more moisture and is much more conducive to fungal growth,” says Richards. “Pathogenic molds can spread faster and further in these cheeses, and this growth is often not immediately visible. If you see mold on one of these cheeses, it’s time to throw it out.”
Think you’re fine because you only eat alt-cheeses? Not so fast. “Mold can grow on any type of cheese,” Richards tells me when I ask about the non-dairy varieties. “All it requires is moisture and the right temperature.” So just watch where you….ahem…cut the cheese.
While we’re on the subject of whether or not eating mold will kill you, here’s what happens if it takes over your bread drawer. And for more intel on beloved dairy, here’s how nutritionists pit Greek yogurt vs. cottage cheese.
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Read Andy Ostroy's Reply To Trump's Bullsh*t Hype About America "Rising From Death"
....And then came a Plague, a great and powerful Plague, and the World was never to be the same again! But America rose from this death and destruction, always remembering its many lost souls, and the lost souls all over the World, and became greater than ever before!
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BULLSHIT. The “plague” came & YOU called it a DEMOCRAT HOAX. You mocked it. You said it was just like the flu. You said 15 cases would soon go to zero. You said it’d ‘miraculously be gone by April’. You said everyone could be tested. You LIED. And You FAILED. #Trump#CoronaVirus
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Cheese Mold And The Issue Of Threshold Phenomena In Medicine And Public Health
Dear Maria.
Over the course of my 73 years, I’ve come to realize that the popular press is disproportionately drawn to "the sensational," and then "they" sensationalize the subject even more.
A couple of years ago, NPR ran a report about a fellow in California who insisted that every Starbucks-style coffee cup be branded with a "Carcinogen Warning" because, as I recall, the material from which those cups is made releases an infinitesimal amount of carcinogen when a chemical reaction is catalyzed by the introduction of hot coffee.
I remember that it was a very engaging radio report that concluded with a tongue-in-cheek suggestion that the day was soon coming when public health authorities would require a warning sign on the inside of all exit doors in public buildings saying: “If you exit through this door in daylight hours, you will immediately enter a Carcinogenic Zone,” referring of course to the fact that ultraviolet light is a known carcinogen.
You may be aware of the medical expression “ infective dose," a concept that means exactly what it says.
In other words, there is a minimum dose level of pathogenic bacteria or pathogenic viruses, or pathogenic substances that must be exceeded in order that an person take ill."
When there is less than an infective dose, pathogens will enter a person's body but are vanishingly unlikely to cause illness.
These so-called "threshold phenomena" are critically important in all realms of human experience, and it is worth keeping them in mind when contemplating any issue that may (or may not) become problematic.
Sadly, many people in medicine, public health and the pharmaceutical industry "grow their programs" and "sell their products" by scaring the bejeezus out of people or, at least, by making people think that the presence of ANY detectable pathogen/threat/menace is reason to freak out.
Some years ago I made a calculation and learned that a single half ounce sugar cube -- if allowed to dissolve and disperse uniformly throughout Honeoye Lake -- would increase the sugar content of the entire lake so that the change could be measured with existing technology.
So…
When you read the following post about mold on cheese -- and whether or not it can be eaten -- please keep humankind's sensationalist behaviors in mind.
"What Kind Of Mold Is Okay On Mold? ... And What Kind Isn't?"
So, while there is an argument that most molds that form on the surface of cheese after you've purchased it are innocuous, it is certainly best to aggressively cut out any mold that is not blue and certainly cut out all mold that is black or grey.
Consider this excerpt from the blog post above: "According to Morillo, it’s pretty rare that you’ll find mold growing on cheese that actually presents a health concern. With the exception of a few types that are actually quite rare to find on cheese, such as the dark black-gray mold Aspergillus niger, most mold isn’t going to hurt you at all."
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Using Quora To Learn Spanish: ¿Qué Enseña El Problema De La Vela Duncker?
Te invito a resolver una pequeña prueba:
imagine que tiene una vela, una caja de chinchetas y un paquete de fósforos a su disposición como se ve en la siguiente figura:
Su tarea es unir la vela a la pared de madera sobre la mesa, pero de tal manera que la cera derretida no gotee sobre la mesa.
Tómate 5 minutos para tratar de resolver el problema. Todos los elementos necesarios están en esa mesa.
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Lo hiciste No parece gran cosa, ¿verdad?
Esta prueba fue utilizada por el psicólogo alemán Karl Duncker en 1945 para evaluar cómo las personas intentan encontrar la solución a un problema.
La mayoría de los participantes comenzaron tratando de clavar la vela en la pared, con malos resultados. Otros trataron de derretir la vela para pegarla, pero incluso esto no parecía una buena idea ya que la vela derretida todavía cayó sobre la mesa (también manchó y quemó la pared). Después de un promedio de 7 minutos, los participantes llegaron a la mejor solución:
Use la caja que contiene los alfileres como candelabro y conéctela a la pared con los alfileres; obviamente las cerillas solo se usan para encender la vela.
En el experimento original, los participantes no pudieron resolver el problema rápidamente porque estaban "fijos" en la función normal de la caja, que es sostener los pasadores (A). Esto les impidió reconceptualizarlo de manera diferente. Cuando el experimentador retiró los alfileres de la caja y los colocó esparcidos sobre la mesa al lado de la caja vacía (B), los sujetos tuvieron una intuición repentina: notaron que la caja podía tener una función diferente, no solo como contenedor sino también como soporte para el vela (C).
Esto nos muestra que de vez en cuando solo cambiamos nuestra perspectiva, nuestro punto de vista y tratamos de pensar de manera creativa y poco convencional para encontrar la solución correcta a un problema.
Interesante, por supuesto, pero sígueme de nuevo para averiguar qué sucedió treinta años después.
El experimento fue reintentado por Sam Glucksberg, profesor de psicología en Princeton, quien agregó una variante importante.
Para llevar a cabo el experimento, Glucksberg dividió a los participantes en dos grupos.
Al principio dijo: "Te cronometraré para una simple referencia"; al segundo dijo: "Los que terminen en el 25% de los más rápidos ganarán 10 dólares en premios y los que terminen primero, en términos absolutos, ganarán 30 dólares". Considere que estas cifras se remontan a principios de los años setenta y, por lo tanto, considerando la inflación, fueron extremadamente interesantes durante unos minutos de trabajo.
Podríamos preguntarnos: ¿cuánto más rápido fue este grupo para resolver el problema?
Respuesta: Les tomó en promedio 3 minutos y medio más que el grupo sin incentivos.
Suena tonto, ¿verdad? ¡Sin embargo es así!
Hay una tendencia a pensar que un incentivo logra refinar el pensamiento y acelerar la creatividad y, en cambio, funciona exactamente lo contrario: oscurece el pensamiento y bloquea la creatividad.
Este experimento no fue un caso aislado, ya que se repitió una y otra vez, durante casi cuarenta años, siempre con los mismos resultados.
Los incentivos tradicionales: "si haces esto, te daré esto" solo funcionan en ciertos casos, pero para muchos trabajos no funcionan o incluso pueden resultar contraproducentes.
El método del palo y la zanahoria ha funcionado bien para muchas actividades del siglo XX, pero para las del siglo XXI a menudo no funciona y muchas veces daña.
Es esencial prestar atención a la motivación interna, al deseo de hacer cosas porque tienen sentido, porque nos gustan, porque son interesantes, porque son parte de algo importante.
¿Quieres ejemplos prácticos?
A mediados de los 90, Microsoft lanzó una enciclopedia llamada Encarta (yo también la tenía). Habían establecido todo tipo de incentivos. Los "correctos", según ellos. Pagaron a profesionales para escribir y revisar miles de artículos. Los gerentes bien pagados supervisaron todo el proceso para asegurarse de que cumplía con los parámetros económicos y las entregas. Unos años más tarde apareció otra enciclopedia. Un modelo diferente Hecho para divertirse. Nadie tomó un centavo, un euro o un yen. Solo lo hicieron porque a él le gustaba hacerlo.
Bueno, si en ese momento fuiste a un economista y le preguntaste: "Oye, tengo estos dos modelos para crear una enciclopedia. ¿Quién crees que tendrá más éxito?" No habría encontrado un solo economista sobrio en ningún lugar del planeta Tierra dispuesto a apostar por el modelo de Wikipedia.
¿Recuerdas cómo te fue? Encarta cerró sus puertas en 2009.
Otros ejemplos
¿Cuántos de ustedes han oído hablar de la compañía Atlassian? Es una compañía de software australiana creada en 2002 por dos estudiantes con un presupuesto de $ 10,000. Hoy vale $ 27 mil millones. Algunas veces al año le dicen a sus técnicos: "En las próximas 24 horas, trabaje como le plazca, siempre y cuando no sea parte de su trabajo normal. Trabaje en lo que quiera". Entonces, los ingenieros usan este tiempo para crear una buena aplicación o alguna delicadeza informática. Luego presentan todo lo que han desarrollado a sus colegas en el departamento y a toda la empresa, en una reunión colectiva informal al final del día.
Aquellos días de intensa autonomía produjeron toda una serie de soluciones de software que quizás nunca hubieran existido.
Y funcionó tan bien que Atlassian dio el siguiente paso con "20 Percent Time". Tal como está hecho, como es sabido, incluso por Google, donde los técnicos pueden pasar el 20% de su tiempo trabajando en lo que quieran. Tienen autonomía sobre su tiempo, sus objetivos, el equipo, la técnica. Como sabrán, aproximadamente la mitad de los nuevos productos, en un año laboral típico, nacen durante el "20 por ciento de tiempo" ... cosas como Gmail.
Lo que resultó del experimento de la vela de Duncker fue uno de los descubrimientos más interesantes y sólidos en las ciencias sociales. ¡Y desafortunadamente también uno de los más ignorados por las empresas!
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Using "Quora" To Learn Spanish: ¿Qué Libro Ayuda A Aprender Historia Mundial Fácilmente?
10 libros imprescindibles para aprender historia
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14 junio, 2017
Si eres amante de la Historia estos 10 títulos deben de estar en tu biblioteca.
En Academia Play somos unos amantes de las listas. Ya os enseñamos películas, series e incluso videojuegos perfectos para aprender Historia.
Sin embargo, nada más instructivo que una buena lectura. En esta selección de libros hemos evitado incluir tratados de corte académico. El tono y la complejidad de muchos libros de historia muchas veces producen un efecto indeseado en el motivado lector que con entusiasmo se asoma a ellos. Este no es otro que el inmediato abandono de la lectura.
Con estos 10 libros te ocurrirá lo contrario.
1. Momentos estelares de la humanidad: Catorce miniaturas históricas | Stefan Zweig (1927).
El arte de la miniatura histórica adquiere un nuevo significado con esta deliciosa obra de Zweig. La obra está escrita en 1927.
Son extremadamente variopintos los temas que lleva a escena en el libro, en concreto 14, pero sin duda estos ‘momentos estelares’ son imprescindibles para comprender el crecimiento y la evolución de la raza humana.
Desde el ocaso del Imperio de Oriente y la Caída de Constantinopla, pasando por la derrota del inolvidable Napoleón, hasta llegar al viaje que condujo a Lenin a Rusia en 1917. Nuestro episodio favorito: el de Cicerón.
“Una joya que hace 20 años los cretinos de la literatura despreciaban, que les ha sobrevivido y ahora todos aplauden.” (Arturo Pérez Reverte)
2. Los griegos: Una gran aventura | Isaac Asimov (1965).
Asimov compaginó la creación literaria de ficción con la divulgación científica y la divulgación histórica. La serie informalmente titulada «Historia Universal Asimov», compuesta por 14 volúmenes reúne las obras dedicadas por el gran novelista y divulgador científico a la evolución política, cultural y material de la especie humana.
Hemos elegido el primer volumen que escribió de la serie. En esta ocasión podrás leer cómo fue la evolución política, social y material sobre la cultura más influyente de la historia de occidente: la griega clásica.
No puedes perderte este maravillo análisis de la cultura que sentó las bases y los cimientos de nuestra civilización.
3. Breve historia del mundo | Ernst H. Gombrich (1935).
Puede parecer que su tono cercano busca a un público juvenil, pero no te dejes engañar por las apariencias. La perspectiva, el tono y el género elegidos por Gombrich convierten su libro en el antecesor moderno de otros tratados, como El mundo de Sofía de Jostein Gaarder o Ética para Amador de Fernando Savater, que, tras su apariencia de texto dirigido a los jóvenes, tocan cuestiones de hondo calado en el campo de las humanidades.
4. Atlas Histórico Mundial | Georges Duby (1990).
¿Eres un apasionado de la geografía histórica?
El prestigioso historiador francés George Duby ha recopilado 300 mapas que dan cuenta del complejo proceso histórico que ha vivido la humanidad a lo largo de todos sus años de historia.
Además el autor, con el fin de facilitarle al lector la comprensión, dividió los mapas por orden cronológico, dando lugar a seis secciones simplificadas. Todo esto sin olvidar que Duby ha ido actualizando su obra con los más recientes acontecimientos, para seguir dotándolo de validez y rigor histórico.
Un libro de consulta que todo estudiante de historia debe tener en su biblioteca.
5. La Cultura: Todo lo que hay que saber | Dietrich Schwanitz (2002).
El subtítulo puede parecer un poco atrevido: “todo lo que hay que saber”.
Pero no te asustes, si algo supo hacer Schwanitz es adaptar y sintetizar elementos de la cultura que a priori pueden ser complejos. El libro tiene un claro carácter ensayística. Cuando el filósofo Fernando Savater, presentó el libro de Schwanitz en Madrid elogió su ‘espíritu irónico’. El propio Schwanitz reconoció que su libro es eurocéntrico.
Si quieres leer la reseña completa de este libro, visita este post en el que Javier Rubio nos cuenta las claves.
6. Una Breve Historia De Casi Todo | Bill Bryson (2003).
Bill Bryson no se conforma con narrar los hechos más relevantes de la historia del hombre.
Esta vez, te encontrarás ante una síntesis de divulgación científica de todos aquellos acontecimientos científicos y globales que han ido dado lugar a que el mundo sea lo que es hoy.
Sin dejar de lado un repaso por la evolución del saber, que ha permitido al hombre comprender el entorno de un modo mucho más profundo.
Sin duda, uno de los best seller más famosos de esta lista.
7. Todo lo que hay que saber: Una pequeña historia del mundo | Loel Zwecker (2011).
Ya el título puede llegar a provocar cierta controversia. ¿Es posible contar resumidamente, la historia del mundo?
Zwecker se pone manos a la obra y nos deja este libro que, lejos de resultar pretencioso, se convierte en un perfecto resumen de aquellos acontecimientos que hicieron girar la historia de la humanidad.
Una excelente síntesis caracterizada por un estilo ameno y divertido lo convierten en un libro de cabecera para los más curiosos e irreverentes lectores.
8. Historia del mundo contada para escépticos | Juan Eslava Galán (2012).
Galán tiene por costumbre hacernos mover de la silla y sacudir nuestras creencias y suposiciones.
Esta vez, amplía horizontes y presenta una provocadora e irreverente obra que, sin embargo, no pierde su capacidad didáctica.
Carcajada tras carcajada, darás un paseo por algunos de los episodios históricos más célebres sin perder el rigor. Probablemente te haga cuestionarte todo lo que sabes tal y como te lo habían contado. Irrepetible. Un básico en la biblioteca.
Eslava tiene otros títulos que siguen la misma estructura: Historia de España contada para escépticos, La segunda guerra mundial contada para escépticos, La revolución rusa contada para escépticos.
9. De Animales a Dioses (Sapiens): Una breve historia de la humanidad | Yuval Noah Harari (2014).
Si quieres dar un paseo breve, pero extremadamente intenso por la historia de la humanidad; este es tu libro.
Este ensayo comienza explicando como el Homo Sapiens logró imponerse como especie, hace un recorrido completo por temas tan complejos como las primeras sociedades, el porqué de los derechos humanos, las religiones, el valor del dinero o el peso de la burocracia.
10. Historia de la Edad Media | Indro Montanelli y Roberto Gervaso (1996).
El famoso historiador y periodista Montanelli formó un tándem con Roberto Gervaso para repasar detalladamente el estilo de vida de la época medieval, enfocándose en describir la sociedad feudal de aquella etapa.
La vida en los castillos y en los pueblos colindantes, las costumbres nobles y terratenientes, su lucha con la recientemente surgida burguesía urbana o el papel de la mujer, son algunos de los temas tratados por el autor en este libro.
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A Guy Goes Up To A Nurse And Asks: "How Much Do You Make?"
For the record...
The 25 states that pay nurses least all voted for Trump in 2016.
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The American "conservative" mentality is mistakenly convinced that the more money that goes to "other people," the less money they themselves will have.
In fact, society-wide generosity contributes mightily to widespread prosperity.
One of only two journalists I ALWAYS read is Umair Haque, a young London-based economist (of Pakistani descent) whose socio-political analyses are not only highly-engaging but soulful.
Umair's most recent essay is a good place to get started.
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The Borowitz Report: "New Claim That Enemies Of U.S. Developed Trump In Lab"
"New Claim That Enemies Of U.S. Developed Trump In Lab"
WASHINGTON, D.C. (The Borowitz Report)—Enemies of the United States developed Donald J. Trump in a top-secret biotech lab with the goal of wreaking untold havoc on the nation, a leading conspiracy theorist claimed on Monday.
The theorist, Harland Dorrinson, said that he has “conclusive evidence” that Trump was created by enemy scientists as the “ultimate weapon” to bring the United States to its knees.
“Having combed through binders of secret documents, I can say with a hundred per cent confidence that the person we have been calling Donald Trump was grown in a recombinant-DNA lab,” Dorrinson said.
“It’s the only possible explanation,” he added.
While the organism known as Trump appeared to be little more than a curiosity for the first seven decades of his existence, “seemingly designed for our amusement,” in recent days he has become “fully weaponized,” the conspiracy theorist asserted.
“In the past two weeks, he has urged Americans to defy public-health orders, to insert ultraviolet light inside their bodies, and to ingest bleach,” he said. “In a secret lab somewhere, enemy scientists are popping champagne.”
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"Compendium Of Best Pax Posts About Conspiracies And Conspiracism"
http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2018/06/compendium-of-best-pax-posts-about.html
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http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2017/06/conspiracy-thinking-death-of-shared.html
The Original And Enduring Conspiracy
https://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2019/10/the-original-and-enduring-conspiracy.html
http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2018/06/compendium-of-best-pax-posts-about.html
"Conspiracy Thinking, The Death Of Shared Identity And The Collapse Of Common Purpose"
http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2017/06/conspiracy-thinking-death-of-shared.html
The Original And Enduring Conspiracy
https://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2019/10/the-original-and-enduring-conspiracy.html
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"There Is Neither Nobility, Nor Kindness Nor Uplift In Trump's America"
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"The Exquisite Stupidity Of Trump Supporters"
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"You Are Not Entitled To Your Own Facts," Daniel Patrick Moynihan
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Christian Ministers Have A Moral Obligation To Call Bullshit On Trump Cultists Spreading Lies
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