Saturday, December 8, 2007

Ruben Dario: Amo, Amas...

Sem nenhuma razão em especial... apenas porque gosto e porque também está presente no livro Livro de Mágoas de Florbela Espanca...

AMO, AMAS...
Amar, amar, amar, amar siempre,
con todoel ser y con la tierra y con el cielo,
con lo claro del sol y lo oscuro del lodo:
amar por toda ciencia y amar por todo anhelo.
Y cuando la montaña de la vidanos sea dura
y larga y alta y llena de abismos,
amar la inmensidad que es de amor
encendida¡y arder en la fusión de nuestros pechos mismos!

Sunday, November 25, 2007

Tapetes de Arraiolos Made in China

Bem, esta notícia de um conhecido jornal nacional deixou-me patareca! Então os tapetes de arraiolos já são made in China?

O que vem a seguir? Bebés made in China?

se quiser loiros: made in china

morenos: made in taiwan

morenos com cabelo loiro então aí já é: made in Vietman com oferta de umas sapatilhas da Nike!

E viva o produto nacional...

Tuesday, November 20, 2007

Depois de um jantar, dá nisto...

Isto era cansaço.... quando as noites acabam mal dá nisto!ehehe... beijo par Angola que bem gosta deste Fado.. mas não assim!

Wednesday, November 7, 2007

Amor à primeira vista é apenas sexo e ego,um estudo afirma.

Attraction is a narcissistic response, report claims
· Standard cues such as eye contact and smiling crucial

Their eyes met across a crowded room. The party chatter ebbed away, and the music slowed. That first lovers' glaze is the staple of the romantic novelist, and scientists believe they have now revealed the true nature of its true attractive power.

According to new research, romance has very little do to with it. That "look" is all about sex and ego.

"It does seem to be a sort of narcissistic thing. People are attracted to people who are attracted to them," said Ben Jones in the Face Research Laboratory at the University of Aberdeen.

"It's really a very basic effect that we are all, at some level at least, aware of - which is that if you smile at people and you maintain eye contact, it makes you more attractive."

He said the work challenges most previous studies of facial attractiveness that have focused on physical characteristics, such as a preference for symmetrical faces or masculine versus feminine features.

"Social signals about how attracted someone else is to you actually seem to be quite important," he said. "You are attracted to people who are attracted to you, and that shows attractiveness is not just about physical beauty."

Dr Jones and his colleagues say they have shown that attraction is based on social cues that say, "I'm interested in you". The most important cue seems to be whether someone is looking directly at you.

The team put together four different sets of digital images - women looking happy, women looking disgusted, men looking happy and men looking disgusted. In each case, the scientists made up pairs of images which were identical except that in one the person was looking directly at the camera and in the other their gaze was averted. Volunteers then rated the relative attractiveness of the images in each pair.

The team found that a direct stare is attractive only if the person giving it looks as if they like you. This preference was even higher if the face in the picture was of the opposite sex.

"What we found at the most basic level is that people like faces with direct gaze more than they like the same faces with averted gaze," said Dr Jones. "In other words, people find it more attractive when they are being looked at."

The results are published in the Proceedings of the Royal Society.

Dr Jones said the results make sense from an evolutionary perspective. "It takes quite a lot of effort to attract a mate and what you want to do is allocate that effort in a more efficient way, in other words in a way that is more likely to help you secure a mate."

So it seems there is no point wasting your time on someone who is just not interested.

Wednesday, October 10, 2007

De volta!

Pois é, depois de tanto tempo aqui estou de volta.
Tanto para falar/escrever...
Os temas são diversos e vão, com toda a certeza, demorar uma semana até ganharem forma... Os mais variados assuntos serão abordados: A derrota do Marques Mendes ( para mim aquilo não foi a vitória do Menezes!), a Universidade, os projectos, as conferências, o regresso dos Gato Fedorento...
Bem, até conseguir organizar as ideias: até já!

Tuesday, July 24, 2007

Mariza - Digressão

Digressão Lugares com História

Mariza é hoje, reconhecidamente, a grande embaixadora da Língua e Cultura portuguesas, sendo um referencial da Lusofonia em todo o mundo. Nomeada oficialmente Embaixadora do Turismo Português pelo Instituto de Turismo de Portugal, associa-se agora à rota do património nacional.


Acompanhada pela Orquestra Sinfonietta de Lisboa, Mariza leva a oito localidades presentes na Rota do Património Nacional, durante o mês de Agosto, o magnífico concerto que deu junto à Torre de Belém, em Lisboa, e que ficou registado no CD e DVD de sucesso “Concerto em Lisboa”.

Uma digressão única, que pretende celebrar a riqueza do nosso património através da apresentação da mais internacional artista de Portugal.

Mariza actuará ao longo de Agosto nos seguintes locais:



14 de Agosto SAGRES, Fortaleza
16 de Agosto PALMELA, Castelo
17 de Agosto TOMAR, Convento de Cristo
19 de Agosto Évora, Arena d’Évora
21 de Agosto GUIMARÃES, Castelo
25 de Agosto SINTRA, Palácio da Vila
28 de Agosto PORTO, Praça da Cordoaria
30 de Agosto ÓBIDOS, Cerca do Castelo

Sunday, July 22, 2007

sensibility to the initial conditions

do site do meu querido João Dias, um matemático com alma de jogador da bola!


By a stone we lost a horseshoe.
By a horseshoe we lost a knight.
By a knight we lost a battle.
By a battle we lost the kingdom.