This document discusses human impacts on the environment that can now be objectively measured and seen from space. It summarizes a NASA study that used satellite imagery to create a map quantifying human influence across different regions of the world. The document also discusses several specific examples of human-caused environmental changes, such as declines in fish populations due to industrial fishing, increases in greenhouse gases affecting global climate, and the rapid growth of electronic waste. Satellite images taken over time are able to reveal human-induced changes to landscapes and ecosystems around the planet.
The document discusses a quantitative research study on the effectiveness of cranberry juice in treating urinary tract infections (UTIs) in women. A quantitative method was used to collect numerical data that could be analyzed statistically. The study involved an experimental group that received cranberry juice, a control group that received delayed or no treatment, and analysis of subgroup data through bivariate analysis. The implications were that understanding UTIs and finding natural treatment options like cranberry juice could help prevent suffering in women.
The document summarizes key information about the Earth's atmosphere and major human impacts on it. It describes the atmosphere's composition and layers, and its vital roles in sustaining life through circulating gases and shielding the planet. It then discusses four major issues - ozone depletion caused by CFCs, global warming from increased greenhouse gases like carbon dioxide, the resulting climate change effects, and air pollution. The Antarctic ozone hole is described as the largest on record. Global warming is recognized as a serious threat and is mainly caused by human activities like fossil fuel use. Predicted consequences include rising sea levels and impacts on hundreds of millions of people.
The document outlines Trebuchet Financial Management Inc.'s methodology for achieving effective financial management in an organization. The methodology involves reviewing governance and accountability, establishing deliverables and forecasts for programs, creating a budget that supports overall organizational goals, collecting and understanding financial data, and reporting data in a timely and accurate manner to funders.
Disc golf, also known as frisbee golf, involves throwing a frisbee or disc into a basket in as few throws as possible. Players need discs designed specifically for disc golf that come in different types for driving and putting. While disc golf courses provide a more professional setting, the game can also be played informally in parks, neighborhoods, or anywhere with a clear target. Disc golf is accessible for people of all skill levels as it combines exercise and fun. Losing discs in the woods is a common problem but also part of the challenge.
10 rapid molecular evolution in a living fossilJoão Soares
This document summarizes a study that analyzed ancient and modern tuatara DNA to estimate molecular evolutionary rates in this species. The key points are:
- Tuatara are considered "living fossils" that have changed little morphologically since the Cretaceous period. However, the study found tuatara have the highest rate of molecular change recorded in vertebrates based on an analysis of tuatara mitochondrial DNA.
- The study estimated tuatara molecular evolutionary rates using Bayesian statistics and sequencing DNA from sub-fossil tuatara bones ranging from 650 to 8,750 years old.
- Surprisingly, the estimated rate of 1.56 substitutions per nucleotide per million years in tuat
Este documento discute a necessidade de repensar a educação para promover o desenvolvimento sustentável em um mundo complexo. Defende uma abordagem humanista da educação que promova a inclusão, a justiça social e os direitos humanos. Também destaca a importância de considerar contextos locais e sistemas de conhecimento diversos ao formular políticas educacionais globais e locais.
This document provides an overview of environmental change on Earth over time. It discusses how early humans began modifying their environment starting around 2 million years ago through activities like building shelters and controlling fire. It then describes major climate and environmental changes that occurred throughout history, including the impacts of glacial periods and the transition to agriculture around 10,000 years ago. The document outlines five major extinction events in Earth's history and how human activities have increasingly shaped the global environment as population has grown over the past 10,000 years.
This document discusses human impacts on the environment that can now be objectively measured and seen from space. It summarizes a NASA study that used satellite imagery to create a map quantifying human influence across different regions of the world. The document also discusses several specific examples of human-caused environmental changes, such as declines in fish populations due to industrial fishing, increases in greenhouse gases affecting global climate, and the rapid growth of electronic waste. Satellite images taken over time are able to reveal human-induced changes to landscapes and ecosystems around the planet.
The document discusses a quantitative research study on the effectiveness of cranberry juice in treating urinary tract infections (UTIs) in women. A quantitative method was used to collect numerical data that could be analyzed statistically. The study involved an experimental group that received cranberry juice, a control group that received delayed or no treatment, and analysis of subgroup data through bivariate analysis. The implications were that understanding UTIs and finding natural treatment options like cranberry juice could help prevent suffering in women.
The document summarizes key information about the Earth's atmosphere and major human impacts on it. It describes the atmosphere's composition and layers, and its vital roles in sustaining life through circulating gases and shielding the planet. It then discusses four major issues - ozone depletion caused by CFCs, global warming from increased greenhouse gases like carbon dioxide, the resulting climate change effects, and air pollution. The Antarctic ozone hole is described as the largest on record. Global warming is recognized as a serious threat and is mainly caused by human activities like fossil fuel use. Predicted consequences include rising sea levels and impacts on hundreds of millions of people.
The document outlines Trebuchet Financial Management Inc.'s methodology for achieving effective financial management in an organization. The methodology involves reviewing governance and accountability, establishing deliverables and forecasts for programs, creating a budget that supports overall organizational goals, collecting and understanding financial data, and reporting data in a timely and accurate manner to funders.
Disc golf, also known as frisbee golf, involves throwing a frisbee or disc into a basket in as few throws as possible. Players need discs designed specifically for disc golf that come in different types for driving and putting. While disc golf courses provide a more professional setting, the game can also be played informally in parks, neighborhoods, or anywhere with a clear target. Disc golf is accessible for people of all skill levels as it combines exercise and fun. Losing discs in the woods is a common problem but also part of the challenge.
10 rapid molecular evolution in a living fossilJoão Soares
This document summarizes a study that analyzed ancient and modern tuatara DNA to estimate molecular evolutionary rates in this species. The key points are:
- Tuatara are considered "living fossils" that have changed little morphologically since the Cretaceous period. However, the study found tuatara have the highest rate of molecular change recorded in vertebrates based on an analysis of tuatara mitochondrial DNA.
- The study estimated tuatara molecular evolutionary rates using Bayesian statistics and sequencing DNA from sub-fossil tuatara bones ranging from 650 to 8,750 years old.
- Surprisingly, the estimated rate of 1.56 substitutions per nucleotide per million years in tuat
Este documento discute a necessidade de repensar a educação para promover o desenvolvimento sustentável em um mundo complexo. Defende uma abordagem humanista da educação que promova a inclusão, a justiça social e os direitos humanos. Também destaca a importância de considerar contextos locais e sistemas de conhecimento diversos ao formular políticas educacionais globais e locais.
This document provides an overview of environmental change on Earth over time. It discusses how early humans began modifying their environment starting around 2 million years ago through activities like building shelters and controlling fire. It then describes major climate and environmental changes that occurred throughout history, including the impacts of glacial periods and the transition to agriculture around 10,000 years ago. The document outlines five major extinction events in Earth's history and how human activities have increasingly shaped the global environment as population has grown over the past 10,000 years.
A Abolicao do Trabalho-por Bob Black.pdfJoão Soares
No artigo intitulado “The Original Affluent Society” (Idade da Pedra, Sociedade da Abundância), o antropólogo Marshall Sahlins ao estudar os colectores de caça fez explodir o mito Hobbesiano. Os colectores de caça trabalham muito menos do que nós. Além disso, é difícil distinguir esse trabalho daquilo que nós consideramos hoje como divertimento. Sahlins diz que o “trabalho” dos caçadores e colectores em busca de alimento é intermitente e melhor do que o trabalho permanente. O descanso é abundante. Ao contrário da maioria de nós, dormem durante o dia. O trabalho que fazem — trabalham uma média de 4 horas por dia e supondo que aquilo que fazem é aos nossos olhos trabalho —, são esforços que parecem ser efectuados com habilidade e que provocam a evolução da capacidade física e intelectual. O trabalho indiferenciado em grande escala, como disse Sahlins, é impossível. Este tipo de trabalho (como modernamente também se designa, não qualificado), só se tomou possível com a industrialização.
The Open Society and Its Enemies- K. PopperJoão Soares
Written in political exile in New Zealand during the Second World War and published in two volumes in 1945, The Open Society and its Enemies was hailed by Bertrand Russell as a 'vigorous and profound defence of democracy'. This legendary attack on the philosophies of Plato, Hegel and Marx prophesied the collapse of communism in Eastern Europe and exposed the fatal flaws of socially engineered political systems. It remains highly readable, erudite and lucid and as essential reading today as on publication in 1945. It is available here in a special centenary single-volume edition.
DANÇAR O ZEN: APRENDIZADO E POÉTICAS DE UM PROCESSOJoão Soares
O documento discute um processo criativo experimental que relaciona o zen budismo, danças brasileiras e técnicas teatrais. O processo é ilustrado pela coreografia "O Touro e o Vazio", que incorpora elementos dos ritos zen, da estética anime japonesa e danças nordestinas brasileiras. A coreografia explora como essas diferentes técnicas e aprendizados podem traduzir a história do corpo que dança em busca de um "acontecer poético".
How Google enables Big Oil’s greenwashing-Final ReportJoão Soares
For the first time, the Center for Countering Digital Hate comprehensively details how Google enables Big Oil’s greenwashing. We reveal that nearly half of the $23.7 million spent on Google search ads by oil and gas companies in the last two years have targeted search terms on environmental sustainability. The five companies studied in this report, ExxonMobil, British Petroleum (BP), Chevron, Shell, and Aramco, have polluted our search results while Google raked in their dirty money.
The Entropy Law and the Economic ProcessJoão Soares
"Every few generations a great seminal book comes along that challenges economic analysis and through its findings alters men's thinking and the course of societal change. This is such a book, yet it is more. It is a "poetic" philosophy, mathematics, and science of economics. It is the quintessence of the thought that has been focused on the economic reality. Henceforce all economists must take these conclusions into account lest their analyses and scholarship be found wanting. "The entropy of the physical universe increases constantly because there is a continuous and irrevocable qualitative degradation of order into chaos. The entropic nature of the economic process, which degrades natural resources and pollutes the environment, constitutes the present danger. The earth is entropically winding down naturally, and economic advance is accelerating the process. Man must learn to ration the meager resources he has so profligately squandered if he is to survive in the long run when the entropic degradation of the sun will be the crucial factor, "for suprising as it may seem, the entire stock of natural resources is not worth more than a few days of sunlight!" Georgescu-Rogen has written our generation's classic in the field of economics."— Library Journal
E-Livro - Elogio da Loucura, por Erasmo de RoterdãoJoão Soares
Esta célebre é incontornável obra, ainda que com mais de 500 anos, continua atual. O autor levanta o véu que cobre e tolda o olhar e humano, numa denúncia dos comportamentos sociais. É introduzida a linha do Humanismo nesta amálgama satírica.
Constituição da República Portuguesa 1976João Soares
O documento apresenta a Constituição da República Portuguesa, aprovada em 1976 após a Revolução dos Cravos. Ela estabelece Portugal como uma república democrática e socialista, comprometida com a independência nacional, os direitos humanos e a transição para o socialismo. A Constituição também define os princípios fundamentais do Estado, como a soberania popular e o Estado de Direito, assim como os direitos e deveres dos cidadãos portugueses.
War is a crime against humanity: The Story of War Resisters’ InternationalJoão Soares
This document provides a summary of the book "War is a Crime Against Humanity: The Story of War Resisters' International" by Devi Prasad. It details the history and work of the War Resisters' International organization from its founding in the 1920s through 1975. The document contains 13 chapters that describe the growth of pacifism and nonviolent movements throughout history, the founding and early work of WRI opposing World War I and conscription, and WRI's efforts to support war resisters and promote peace during and after World War II and through various 20th century conflicts. It also includes appendices with details on WRI conferences, leadership, publications, and affiliates around the world.
Extending Russia: Competing from Advantageous GroundJoão Soares
This report examines a range of possible means to extend Russia. As the 2018 National Defense Strategy recognized, the United States is currently locked in a great-power competition with Russia. This report seeks to define areas where the United States can compete to its own advantage. Drawing on quantitative and qualitative data from Western and Russian sources, this report examines Russia's economic, political, and military vulnerabilities and anxieties. It then analyzes potential policy options to exploit them — ideologically, economically, geopolitically, and militarily (including air and space, maritime, land, and multidomain options). After describing each measure, this report assesses the associated benefits, costs, and risks, as well as the likelihood that measure could be successfully implemented and actually extend Russia. Most of the steps covered in this report are in some sense escalatory, and most would likely prompt some Russian counter-escalation. Some of these policies, however, also might prompt adverse reactions from other U.S. adversaries — most notably, China — that could, in turn, stress the United States. Ultimately, this report concludes that the most attractive U.S. policy options to extend Russia — with the greatest benefits, highest likelihood of success, and least risk — are in the economic domain, featuring a combination of boosting U.S. energy production and sanctions, providing the latter are multilateral. In contrast, geopolitical measures to bait Russia into overextending itself and ideological measures to undermine the regime's stability carry significant risks. Finally, many military options — including force posture changes and development of new capabilities — could enhance U.S. deterrence and reassure U.S. allies, but only a few are likely to extend Russia, as Moscow is not seeking parity with the United States in most domains.
Pensar Portugal – A modernidade de um país antigoJoão Soares
Pensar Portugal – A Modernidade de um País Antigo é um livro de pequenos ensaios de ciências sociais e humanas, que apresentam e discutem assuntos e problemas relativos a Portugal. São ensaios que constituem estudos de caso, embora tenham a forma de crónicas. O ponto de vista não é propriamente filosófico, nem estético, nem político. É um exercício de compreensão do mundo contemporâneo, tendo as ciências sociais e humanas como enquadramento teórico. Estes ensaios filiam-se no reconhecimento de um pensamento da prática, e também no reconhecimento da importância do imaginário em toda a estruturação social. O livro está organizado em seis partes. Cada parte é iniciada por um capítulo teórico. A função destes capítulos é a de enquadrar, teórica e metodologicamente, os pequenos ensaios, colocadas no registo específico de cada uma das partes do livro.
Bulletin of the Atomic Scientisits 2024-Doomsday-Clock-StatementJoão Soares
The document summarizes the 2024 Doomsday Clock statement from the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists. It finds that humanity faces an unprecedented level of danger from nuclear weapons, climate change, disruptive technologies, and other threats. The Doomsday Clock remains set at 90 seconds to midnight, the closest it has ever been to catastrophe. Key threats include an increased risk of nuclear war due to conflicts like Ukraine, an accelerating climate crisis, and dangers from emerging technologies like AI and biotechnology if left unchecked. Urgent global cooperation is needed to reduce threats and move the clock further from midnight.
The Man in The High Castle Philip K. DickJoão Soares
This document provides bibliographic and copyright information for the novel "The Man in the High Castle" by Philip K. Dick. It includes a dedication to the author's wife, acknowledgments for sources used, and the beginning of Chapter 1 which introduces the main character Mr. Robert Childan and describes his antique store in San Francisco.
o homem do castelo alto - philip k. dickJoão Soares
1) O documento apresenta uma introdução a uma nova edição do livro "O Homem do Castelo Alto" de Philip K. Dick, traduzido para português.
2) O autor revisita um texto introdutório que escreveu há 27 anos sobre a obra e pensamento de Philip K. Dick.
3) A introdução discute a vida e carreira de Philip K. Dick, sua visão do mundo, influências filosóficas e religiosas, e como isso é refletido em sua ficção científica.
Falsas catástrofes invisíveis e ameaças de destruiçãoJoão Soares
This document summarizes and critiques a news article claiming that Africa's oldest baobab trees are dying at an unprecedented rate that may be caused by climate change. The summary critiques several aspects of the original claim:
1) It is normal for older trees and species to die, yet the article provides no baseline rate of baobab mortality to say if the current rate is truly unprecedented.
2) The article only speculates that climate change "may" be the cause, providing no actual evidence of a link between climate change and baobab deaths.
3) There are no population figures for baobabs across Africa to determine mortality rates, yet the article claims the rate of death is increasing
Introdução ao pensamento feminista negroJoão Soares
O texto defende um feminismo que abarque as 99% das mulheres, especialmente as mais vulneráveis e marginalizadas, como mulheres negras, pobres, indígenas, trabalhadoras domésticas e LGBTQIA+. O feminismo proposto é anticapitalista, antirracista, ecossocialista e contra a opressão de gênero, classe e raça.
Queer Palestine and the Empire of CritiqueJoão Soares
This document provides background on the author's personal experiences coming to terms with his queer identity as a Palestinian. He describes growing up feeling different from his peers and hearing anti-gay messages. During college, he began exploring queer identities but still felt isolated due to differences in experiences. Exposure to queer communities in the US and Middle East helped his acceptance. The author's academic work has focused on critiquing universalizing of Western LGBT concepts and embracing a nuanced understanding of queer identities and experiences of Arabs. His journey highlights tensions between queer and Arab identities but also their connections within himself.
A Abolicao do Trabalho-por Bob Black.pdfJoão Soares
No artigo intitulado “The Original Affluent Society” (Idade da Pedra, Sociedade da Abundância), o antropólogo Marshall Sahlins ao estudar os colectores de caça fez explodir o mito Hobbesiano. Os colectores de caça trabalham muito menos do que nós. Além disso, é difícil distinguir esse trabalho daquilo que nós consideramos hoje como divertimento. Sahlins diz que o “trabalho” dos caçadores e colectores em busca de alimento é intermitente e melhor do que o trabalho permanente. O descanso é abundante. Ao contrário da maioria de nós, dormem durante o dia. O trabalho que fazem — trabalham uma média de 4 horas por dia e supondo que aquilo que fazem é aos nossos olhos trabalho —, são esforços que parecem ser efectuados com habilidade e que provocam a evolução da capacidade física e intelectual. O trabalho indiferenciado em grande escala, como disse Sahlins, é impossível. Este tipo de trabalho (como modernamente também se designa, não qualificado), só se tomou possível com a industrialização.
The Open Society and Its Enemies- K. PopperJoão Soares
Written in political exile in New Zealand during the Second World War and published in two volumes in 1945, The Open Society and its Enemies was hailed by Bertrand Russell as a 'vigorous and profound defence of democracy'. This legendary attack on the philosophies of Plato, Hegel and Marx prophesied the collapse of communism in Eastern Europe and exposed the fatal flaws of socially engineered political systems. It remains highly readable, erudite and lucid and as essential reading today as on publication in 1945. It is available here in a special centenary single-volume edition.
DANÇAR O ZEN: APRENDIZADO E POÉTICAS DE UM PROCESSOJoão Soares
O documento discute um processo criativo experimental que relaciona o zen budismo, danças brasileiras e técnicas teatrais. O processo é ilustrado pela coreografia "O Touro e o Vazio", que incorpora elementos dos ritos zen, da estética anime japonesa e danças nordestinas brasileiras. A coreografia explora como essas diferentes técnicas e aprendizados podem traduzir a história do corpo que dança em busca de um "acontecer poético".
How Google enables Big Oil’s greenwashing-Final ReportJoão Soares
For the first time, the Center for Countering Digital Hate comprehensively details how Google enables Big Oil’s greenwashing. We reveal that nearly half of the $23.7 million spent on Google search ads by oil and gas companies in the last two years have targeted search terms on environmental sustainability. The five companies studied in this report, ExxonMobil, British Petroleum (BP), Chevron, Shell, and Aramco, have polluted our search results while Google raked in their dirty money.
The Entropy Law and the Economic ProcessJoão Soares
"Every few generations a great seminal book comes along that challenges economic analysis and through its findings alters men's thinking and the course of societal change. This is such a book, yet it is more. It is a "poetic" philosophy, mathematics, and science of economics. It is the quintessence of the thought that has been focused on the economic reality. Henceforce all economists must take these conclusions into account lest their analyses and scholarship be found wanting. "The entropy of the physical universe increases constantly because there is a continuous and irrevocable qualitative degradation of order into chaos. The entropic nature of the economic process, which degrades natural resources and pollutes the environment, constitutes the present danger. The earth is entropically winding down naturally, and economic advance is accelerating the process. Man must learn to ration the meager resources he has so profligately squandered if he is to survive in the long run when the entropic degradation of the sun will be the crucial factor, "for suprising as it may seem, the entire stock of natural resources is not worth more than a few days of sunlight!" Georgescu-Rogen has written our generation's classic in the field of economics."— Library Journal
E-Livro - Elogio da Loucura, por Erasmo de RoterdãoJoão Soares
Esta célebre é incontornável obra, ainda que com mais de 500 anos, continua atual. O autor levanta o véu que cobre e tolda o olhar e humano, numa denúncia dos comportamentos sociais. É introduzida a linha do Humanismo nesta amálgama satírica.
Constituição da República Portuguesa 1976João Soares
O documento apresenta a Constituição da República Portuguesa, aprovada em 1976 após a Revolução dos Cravos. Ela estabelece Portugal como uma república democrática e socialista, comprometida com a independência nacional, os direitos humanos e a transição para o socialismo. A Constituição também define os princípios fundamentais do Estado, como a soberania popular e o Estado de Direito, assim como os direitos e deveres dos cidadãos portugueses.
War is a crime against humanity: The Story of War Resisters’ InternationalJoão Soares
This document provides a summary of the book "War is a Crime Against Humanity: The Story of War Resisters' International" by Devi Prasad. It details the history and work of the War Resisters' International organization from its founding in the 1920s through 1975. The document contains 13 chapters that describe the growth of pacifism and nonviolent movements throughout history, the founding and early work of WRI opposing World War I and conscription, and WRI's efforts to support war resisters and promote peace during and after World War II and through various 20th century conflicts. It also includes appendices with details on WRI conferences, leadership, publications, and affiliates around the world.
Extending Russia: Competing from Advantageous GroundJoão Soares
This report examines a range of possible means to extend Russia. As the 2018 National Defense Strategy recognized, the United States is currently locked in a great-power competition with Russia. This report seeks to define areas where the United States can compete to its own advantage. Drawing on quantitative and qualitative data from Western and Russian sources, this report examines Russia's economic, political, and military vulnerabilities and anxieties. It then analyzes potential policy options to exploit them — ideologically, economically, geopolitically, and militarily (including air and space, maritime, land, and multidomain options). After describing each measure, this report assesses the associated benefits, costs, and risks, as well as the likelihood that measure could be successfully implemented and actually extend Russia. Most of the steps covered in this report are in some sense escalatory, and most would likely prompt some Russian counter-escalation. Some of these policies, however, also might prompt adverse reactions from other U.S. adversaries — most notably, China — that could, in turn, stress the United States. Ultimately, this report concludes that the most attractive U.S. policy options to extend Russia — with the greatest benefits, highest likelihood of success, and least risk — are in the economic domain, featuring a combination of boosting U.S. energy production and sanctions, providing the latter are multilateral. In contrast, geopolitical measures to bait Russia into overextending itself and ideological measures to undermine the regime's stability carry significant risks. Finally, many military options — including force posture changes and development of new capabilities — could enhance U.S. deterrence and reassure U.S. allies, but only a few are likely to extend Russia, as Moscow is not seeking parity with the United States in most domains.
Pensar Portugal – A modernidade de um país antigoJoão Soares
Pensar Portugal – A Modernidade de um País Antigo é um livro de pequenos ensaios de ciências sociais e humanas, que apresentam e discutem assuntos e problemas relativos a Portugal. São ensaios que constituem estudos de caso, embora tenham a forma de crónicas. O ponto de vista não é propriamente filosófico, nem estético, nem político. É um exercício de compreensão do mundo contemporâneo, tendo as ciências sociais e humanas como enquadramento teórico. Estes ensaios filiam-se no reconhecimento de um pensamento da prática, e também no reconhecimento da importância do imaginário em toda a estruturação social. O livro está organizado em seis partes. Cada parte é iniciada por um capítulo teórico. A função destes capítulos é a de enquadrar, teórica e metodologicamente, os pequenos ensaios, colocadas no registo específico de cada uma das partes do livro.
Bulletin of the Atomic Scientisits 2024-Doomsday-Clock-StatementJoão Soares
The document summarizes the 2024 Doomsday Clock statement from the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists. It finds that humanity faces an unprecedented level of danger from nuclear weapons, climate change, disruptive technologies, and other threats. The Doomsday Clock remains set at 90 seconds to midnight, the closest it has ever been to catastrophe. Key threats include an increased risk of nuclear war due to conflicts like Ukraine, an accelerating climate crisis, and dangers from emerging technologies like AI and biotechnology if left unchecked. Urgent global cooperation is needed to reduce threats and move the clock further from midnight.
The Man in The High Castle Philip K. DickJoão Soares
This document provides bibliographic and copyright information for the novel "The Man in the High Castle" by Philip K. Dick. It includes a dedication to the author's wife, acknowledgments for sources used, and the beginning of Chapter 1 which introduces the main character Mr. Robert Childan and describes his antique store in San Francisco.
o homem do castelo alto - philip k. dickJoão Soares
1) O documento apresenta uma introdução a uma nova edição do livro "O Homem do Castelo Alto" de Philip K. Dick, traduzido para português.
2) O autor revisita um texto introdutório que escreveu há 27 anos sobre a obra e pensamento de Philip K. Dick.
3) A introdução discute a vida e carreira de Philip K. Dick, sua visão do mundo, influências filosóficas e religiosas, e como isso é refletido em sua ficção científica.
Falsas catástrofes invisíveis e ameaças de destruiçãoJoão Soares
This document summarizes and critiques a news article claiming that Africa's oldest baobab trees are dying at an unprecedented rate that may be caused by climate change. The summary critiques several aspects of the original claim:
1) It is normal for older trees and species to die, yet the article provides no baseline rate of baobab mortality to say if the current rate is truly unprecedented.
2) The article only speculates that climate change "may" be the cause, providing no actual evidence of a link between climate change and baobab deaths.
3) There are no population figures for baobabs across Africa to determine mortality rates, yet the article claims the rate of death is increasing
Introdução ao pensamento feminista negroJoão Soares
O texto defende um feminismo que abarque as 99% das mulheres, especialmente as mais vulneráveis e marginalizadas, como mulheres negras, pobres, indígenas, trabalhadoras domésticas e LGBTQIA+. O feminismo proposto é anticapitalista, antirracista, ecossocialista e contra a opressão de gênero, classe e raça.
Queer Palestine and the Empire of CritiqueJoão Soares
This document provides background on the author's personal experiences coming to terms with his queer identity as a Palestinian. He describes growing up feeling different from his peers and hearing anti-gay messages. During college, he began exploring queer identities but still felt isolated due to differences in experiences. Exposure to queer communities in the US and Middle East helped his acceptance. The author's academic work has focused on critiquing universalizing of Western LGBT concepts and embracing a nuanced understanding of queer identities and experiences of Arabs. His journey highlights tensions between queer and Arab identities but also their connections within himself.