The Muppets made it famous, but where did the song come from? (Hint: a steamy Italian film...) Who performed it? And who is that fuzzy fella?
The slow movement (sometimes capitalised Slow movement or Slow Movement) advocates a cultural shift toward slowing down life's pace. It began with Carlo Petrini's protest against the opening of a McDonald's restaurant in Piazza di Spagna, Rome in 1986 that sparked the creation of the slow food movement. Over time, this developed into a subculture in other areas, like the Cittaslow organisation for "slow cities". The "slow" epithet has subsequently been applied to a variety of activities and aspects of culture. Geir Berthelsen and his creation of The World Institute of Slowness presented a vision in 1999 for an entire "slow planet" and a need to teach the world the way of slowness. Carl Honoré's 2004 book, In Praise of Slow, first explored how the Slow philosophy might be applied in every field of human endeavour and coined the phrase "slow movement". The Financial Times said the book is "to the Slow Movement what Das Kapital is to communism". Honoré describes the Slow Movement thus: "It is a cultural revolution against the notion that faster is always better. The Slow philosophy is not about doing everything at...
Getting to the bottom of one of the internet’s most ridiculously drawn mysteries
Příroda není rodič s bezednou peněženkou, který „zacvaká“ naše problémy, musíme se chovat dospěle. Myslí si to environmentální etik a filosof Bohuslav Binka z Masarykovy univerzity v Brně. Řešením podle něj není ani nátlak, ani moralizování. Čím dřív však společnost zastaví klimatické změny, tím víc si budeme žít jako dnes, doufá.
Ve školství chybí 40 miliard V Česku je 140 škol, kde je většina Romů, i v Praze je segregovaných škol pět, upozorňuje sociolog Daniel Prokop.
Gina Crosley-Corcoran grew up in the type of poverty Americans like to pretend doesn’t exist, so it was hard for her to believe she had…
The Value of Grey Thinking
from https://fs.blog/2016/06/value-grey-thinking/
Researchers in Kyoto demonstrate for WIRED how they can precisely track the locations of people using Grindr, Hornet, and Jack'd despite features meant to hide them.
PR agentura placená Home Creditem nejbohatšího Čecha podle dokumentů, které Aktuálně.cz získalo, ovlivňovala média, politiky i experty.
Ilustrovaný průvodce místy posledního odpočinku vojáků armády generála Vlasova na hřbitovech v Praze a nejbližším okolí.
SNACK 270 Ivan Jonak - SNACK 919
from https://www.spreaker.com/user/snackbox/snack-270-ivan-jonak
Molotovy, luky, barikády. Univerzity se změnily takřka ve válečnou zónu
Od chvíle, kdy Francis Fukuyama přišel s tezí o "konci dějin", uplyne letos už 25 let. Jeho kniha The End of History and the Last Man (Konec dějin a…
“We might as well go down fighting.”
header bidding, DFP, GAM, cpm ... welcome in the world of ads, where everything is an acronym. Le me try to explain how everything works under the hood.
In 2018 $273bn was spent on digital ads globally. We delve into the world of clicks, banners and keywords to find out if any of it is real. What do we really know about the effectiveness of digital advertising?
A journey that takes one beyond the limits of human imagination: this is how Fabrizio Gatti describes his experience of a week spent undercover among immigrant labourers in Puglia in order to report on the horrors that these modern slaves endure.
Nahrávka z klíčové porady TV Prima k uprchlíkům: „Vedení televize má názor a vy ho budete respektovat.“
from https://hlidacipes.org/nahravka-z-porady-zpravodajstvi-tv-prima/
The Myth of Making It
from https://longreads.com/2019/09/06/the-myth-of-making-it/
Existuje otroctví v Evropě 21. století? Ano – a svůj díl viny na tom má nezvládnutá migrační vlna. O situaci zotročených uprchlíků píší reportéři deníku Guardian.
The Age of Forever Crises
from https://longreads.com/2019/05/02/the-age-of-forever-crises/
Kdo má málo, chová se často tak, že bude mít ještě méně. Nouze vede k ještě větší nouzi, protože mění vztah k riziku, vede ke kognitivní únavě a svádí člověka dělat vážné chyby.
Český písničkářský idol Jaromír Nohavica se rozhodl promluvit o nejméně známé kapitole svého života – spolupráci s komunistickou Státní…
Duncan Clark: A new study suggests that planes cause more warming than cars, while ships are cooling enough to counteract them both
What is the minimum number of people you need in order to maintain (not necessarily to extend) our current level of technological civilization?
The Eastgate Centre is a shopping centre and office block in central Harare, Zimbabwe whose architect is Mick Pearce. Designed to be ventilated and cooled by entirely natural means, it was probably the first building in the world to use natural cooling to this level of sophistication. It opened in 1996 on Robert Mugabe Avenue and Second Street, and provides 5,600 m² of retail space, 26,000 m² of office space and parking for 450 cars. Designing for thermal control The Eastgate Centre's design is a deliberate move away from the "big glass block". Glass office blocks are typically expensive to maintain at a comfortable temperature, needing substantial heating in the winter and cooling in the summer. They tend to recycle air, in an attempt to keep the expensively conditioned atmosphere inside, leading to high levels of air pollution in the building. Artificial air-conditioning systems are high-maintenance, and Zimbabwe has the additional problem that the original system and most spare parts have to be imported, squandering foreign exchange reserves. Mick Pearce, the architect...
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