Etiqueta: Social Sciences
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Noam Chomsky y Tony Blair
Noam Chomsky y Tony Blair se cruzan en el aeropuerto El 15 de octubre pasado, Noam Chomsky dio una conferencia en la Universidad de Florida titulada “Policy and Media Prism” (“Las políticas y el prisma mediático”). Durante más de una hora, con su voz pausada y su incansable osadía de desarticular narraciones oficiales, Chomsky analizó…
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Practicing life
Practicing life By Jorge Majfud Translated by John Catalinotto. John Jay College, New York. Not a few times I’ve heard that the disadvantage of learning a new language is that if it isn’t used, it is lost. This is technically inaccurate, since losing the ability to use knowledge does not necessarily mean that one has forgotten everything…
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Why Culture Matters
Why Culture Matters https://web.archive.org/web/20201021181353/https://judolphinmedia.com/14437/editorial/the-oldest-enemy-of-civilization/ In September of 2006, in Lewisburg, Tennessee, a neighborhood group protested because the public library was investing resources in the purchase of books in Spanish. Of the sixty thousand volumes, only one thousand were published in a language other than English. The annual budget, totalling thirteen thousand dollars, dedicates the…
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Estudiar idiomas rejuvenece el cerebro (entre otras cosas)
2 languages make your brain buff If you had any doubts about exposing your child – or yourself – to a foreign language, there’s more evidence than ever that being bilingual has enormous benefits for your brain. Scientists presented their research supporting this idea Friday at the American Association for the Advancement of Science annual meeting…
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The official word: criminalize the victim
The official word: criminalize the victim By Jorge Majfud Translated by Tony R. Barret Few weeks ago, just as in the last few centuries, the land claims of rural workers have been brought back up in several spots of Latin America. If it is really true that our own 21st century cannot base its economies…
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The Original Frustration
La frustración original (Spanish) The Original Frustration Jorge Majfud Lincoln University There are at least three dreams that were persistent from my childhood: in the first one I would try desperately to say something, but I would open my mouth and the words would not come out; in the second one I would try…
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Ο δεκάλογος κατά του ανθρωπισμού
Diez azotes contra el humanismo (Spanish) Monthly Review MR II Ο δεκάλογος κατά του ανθρωπισμού Translated by Eleni Alexopoulou του ΧΟΡΧΕ ΜΑΧΦΟΥΝΤ* Χόρχε Μαχφούντ Τεύχος Νο 30 Αρχική Δημοσίευση: MRZine, 6 Μαρτίου 2007 Μετάφραση: Νίκος Παπαπολύζος Μια δευτερεύουσα παράδοση στη συντηρητική σκέψη είναι ο ορισμός του διαλεκτικού αντιπάλου ως πνευματικά ανεπαρκούς και ηθικά επιλήψιμου. Καθώς…
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