Inovações Pré-Históricas Que Mudaram o Mundo, da nossa arqueóloga de eleição, Sara Cura
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𝐃𝐢𝐚 𝐈𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐧𝐚𝐜𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐚𝐥 𝐝𝐨 𝐏𝐚𝐭𝐫𝐢𝐦𝐨́𝐧𝐢𝐨 𝐂𝐮𝐥𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐚𝐥 𝐈𝐦𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐚𝐥 𝐈𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐧𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐚𝐥 𝐃𝐚𝐲 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐈𝐧𝐭𝐚𝐧𝐠𝐢𝐛𝐥𝐞 𝐂𝐮𝐥𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐚𝐥 𝐇𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐭𝐚𝐠𝐞 𝐉𝐨𝐮𝐫𝐧𝐞́𝐞 𝐢𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐧𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐚𝐥𝐞 𝐝𝐮 𝐩𝐚𝐭𝐫𝐢𝐦𝐨𝐢𝐧𝐞 𝐜𝐮𝐥𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐞𝐥 𝐢𝐦𝐦𝐚𝐭𝐞́𝐫𝐢𝐞𝐥
As usual, in terms of translation and localization, did you notice English goes with "intangible" whereas most other (Latin) languages go with (their variation of) "immaterial," also including German (not Latin-based)? Fascinating 🧩 UNESCO
Food for thought :)
From the wonderful CDA blog . If there’s one thing the British coastline is famous for, it’s fish and chips. You’d be hard pushed to find a seaside town that doesn’t have at least one chip shop. Fish and chips have become such a British staple in fact, that during World War II, Winston Churchill exempt the dish from rationing. But it might be surprising to hear that fish and chips aren’t British at all, but Portuguese. It’s said that the Shepardic Jews of Portugal bought a centuries old Andalusian dish called peshkado frito to the UK in the 1400s when fleeing religious persecution. White fish would be fried in a thin coat of flour ready for the Sabbath and when the potato became popular in the 1800’s, they made the perfect accompaniment… Now you know where “fish and chip Friday” comes from! It’s starting to feel like Portugal doesn’t quite get the credit it deserves when it comes to “native” food…While many foods have been taken from India and ad...
Hawaiian Rules
After a weekend where the temperature here in Western Europe have fallen by 10 degrees C, for crying out loud!
The Machine Stops
New York City is the greatest public works project in the USA . It is a city of tubes, grids, circuits and networks. We are organised by numbered floors and numbered streets and numbered apartments, fed and watered through great pipes and tunnels and bridges, shuttled to and fro in shifts along lines. On Monday night the magnificent machines were revealed to us, as they failed one by one. American newscasters hyperventilate about everything, and foam at the mouth when the subject is weather systems over the Northeastern United States, so there seemed no special reason to pay them any urgent attention in the days leading up to Sandy. The storm only became real when the governor announced the closure of the subway system on Sunday morning. The process takes eight hours. Employees moved train cars, removed tracks that might be damaged by salt water, primed pumps, cleaned drains, evacuated stations and cleared rail yards prone to flooding. That night, the Metr...
RIP Denis Dutton - Dear Sir, you will be missed
Arte e Instinto: Beleza, Prazer e Evolução Humana, de Denis Dutton Tradução de João Quina Edições Revisão de Pedro Ernesto Ferreira Lisboa: Temas & Debates, 2010, 446 pp. Os dinca (povo do sul do Sudão) apreciam como especialistas os padrões e cores das manchas do seu gado. A cerimónia japonesa do chá é vista como uma arte performativa. Algumas culturas produzem escultura, mas não desenho; outras, especializam-se na poesia. Contudo, apesar da rica diversidade de expressão artística que se encontra em diferentes culturas, todos partilhamos um sentido profundo de prazer estético. A necessidade de criar uma forma qualquer de arte encontra-se em todas as sociedades humanas. Neste livro (cujo título original é O Instinto da Arte ), Dutton explora a ideia de que esta necessidade tem uma base evolutiva: os sentimentos que todos partilhamos quando vemos uma paisagem magnífica ou um pôr-do-Sol belo evoluíram como adaptações úteis nos nossos antecessores caçadores-recolectore...
