Juan Marcos Pérez Gulín on Febrero 9th, 2010

¿Cuántos poetas serían capaces de incluir eBay, Friendster y Monster.com en un poema de 3 minutos que ponga en pie al público? Disfrute del talento único de Rives.

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Juan Marcos Pérez Gulín on Febrero 8th, 2010

Osama bin Laden, the leader of Al Qaeda, blamed the United States and developed countries for not halting climate change and said that the global economy should immediately abandon its reliance on the American dollar, according to an audiotape released Friday by the broadcaster Al Jazeera.

“Talk about climate change is not an ideological luxury but a reality,” Mr. bin Laden was quoted as saying in a report on Al Jazeera’s English-language Web site. “All of the industrialized countries, especially the big ones, bear responsibility for the global warming crisis.”

The authenticity of the tape could not be immediately confirmed, and Al Jazeera, which is based in Qatar, did not say how it had obtained the message.

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Juan Marcos Pérez Gulín on Febrero 6th, 2010

Los descubrí porque están en el programa del TED 2010 en Palm Springs que la Fundación Galicia Sustentable retransmitirá via twitter, yo también lo haré ;)

Los LXD tendrán una web propia pronto en el 2010. Este apertivo es para que te prepares para ver una forma de bailar como nunca se ha bailado. Simplemente digno de disfrutar.

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Juan Marcos Pérez Gulín on Febrero 5th, 2010

Listening to this talk it borught economists to my mind.

I feel they (we) were perfectly presented when David talked about explanations that can be easily varied, because we are experts explaining one thing and the opposite within a very short period of time.

It was while I was studying Political Economics at the University of Santiago de Compsotela when Professor Olariaga talked to us about Procrustes myth applied to what economists actually do (“Procrustean solution” is the undesirable practice of tailoring data to fit results).

Economists, we’ve doing so fine changing our own theories and explanations about reality that many people say that the Economy is not science. But in the end, maybe the real problem is that economists do not behave as scientists whenever they appear serving political speeches (both for public administrations or big companies). This is a very clear case where explanation is not the goal.

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