Nacionales
Nicmer Evans Estamos en medio de una grave crisis política en nuestro país de la que no puede postergarse más su ...
Caracas, junio 16 - El periodista y político venezolano José Vicente Rangel instó a la región a no desestimar la ...
Jesús Puerta Estamos en crisis: En primer lugar, reconozcamos que nos hallamos en una situación de crisis, en el sentido de un ...
Correo del Orinoco 5 junio 2013 - El presidente de la República, Nicolás Maduro, calificó este martes como positiva la ...
GABRIELA TURZI martes 4 de junio de 2013, Caracas.- El presidente Nicolás Maduro aseveró hoy que llegará el momento en el que ...
Caracas, AVN, 4 de junio de 2013.- El presidente de la República, Nicolás Maduro, reiteró este lunes su rechazo por ...
CARLOS BLANCO "Un gobierno sin capacidad de alianzas, parece destinado a esperar su desplome" Vámonos, aquí no nos quieren domingo 2 de ...
Fernando Ochoa Antich Domingo 2 de junio de 2013. La decisión de Nicolás Maduro de crear unas milicias obreras me produjo gran ...
31 mayo 2013. El mandatario aseveró que el 8-D será una fecha histórica para el país, por lo que llamó ...
Antonio Aponte Presidente Maduro, hemos sido atacados por Ud. y, muy a nuestro pesar, debemos responder. Su ataque tiene un lado ...
Aporrea-Correo del Orinoco-Agencias 31/05/13.-El presidente de la República Bolivariana de Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro, lamentó este jueves que su homólogo colombiano, ...
Caracas, mayo 29 - El Gobierno de Venezuela reaccionó a la visita del opositor, Henrique Capriles, a Colombia. A través ...
Leyes
The Recomputation Manifesto
Replication of scientific experiments is critical to the advance of science. Unfortunately, the discipline of Computer Science has never treated replication seriously, even though computers are very good at doing the same thing over and over again. Not only are experiments rarely replicated, they are rarely even replicable in a meaningful way. Scientists are being encouraged to make their source code available, but this is only a small step. Even in the happy event that source code can be built and run successfully, running code is a long way away from being able to replicate the experiment that code was used for. I propose that the discipline of Computer Science must embrace replication of experiments as standard practice. I propose that the only credible technique to make experiments truly replicable is to provide copies of virtual machines in which the experiments are validated to run. I propose that tools and repositories should be made available to make this happen. I propose to be one of those who makes it happen.
Política
Latin America arena for global powers
New Chinese President Xi Jinping chose Latin America as part of the destinations for his second state visit, a sign that the new leadership will concentrate more on Latin America’s role and influence in the transforming global pattern. Compared with other regions such as the Asia-Pacific and the Middle East, Latin America is not pivotal in the change of the international pattern. Nevertheless, Latin America is becoming more fully engaged with international affairs. It is also unavoidable that Latin America has become an arena for another round of power struggles. The US is trying to regain its influence in Latin America, while Russia, India and Japan, no matter whether out of consideration of Latin America’s resources and market or the need to readjust their foreign policy, are also looking to take a share. Latin America has become an unavoidable topic if China and the US want to establish a new pattern of relationship. Setting up mechanisms to enhance communication, negotiation and mutual trust between both countries over this region should be a top priority
Ciencia y tecnología
A global quantum network
By quantum-mechanically coupling laser-cooled atoms to glass fiber cables, Vienna University of Technology researchers have developed a way to store quantum information over a long enough period of time to allow for entangling atoms hundreds of kilometers apart via fiber cables. The problem with previous research is that after a short time, the quantum information stored in the atoms is lost as it leaks into the environment — an effect called “decoherence.” This finding is a fundamental building block for a global fiber-based quantum communication network, the researchers suggest.
Crítica
“El kirchnerismo no existe, salvo como nombre, una hipóstasis, un fantasma”
Prefiero al intelectual que observa de cerca y piensa de lejos. Para debatir hay que tener ganas de pensar. Para pensar hay que partir de que no se tiene una verdad. Para no tener una verdad hay que ser curioso. Para ser curioso no hay que creer sino buscar. Para buscar… Por eso no hay debate, hay pelea. Los personajes de la política profesional navegan por todas esas riberas y seguirán deambulando por muchas más. El país entusiastamente neoliberal en los noventa- al menos diez años tanto para pobres como para ricos – se pretende hoy bolivariano, tanto para pobres como para ricos. El país que se acomodó en los setenta a los secuestros y luego durante el Proceso a las matanzas, se hizo profundamente democrático durante Alfonsín. En un libro los llamé “democaretas”.
Educacion
Esencia y hecho en Zubiri ¿En qué sentido puede entenderse la filosofía de Zubiri como una fenomenología?
Frente a la interpretación canónica de Zubiri, que ve en el camino que va de Sobre la esencia (1962) a Inteligencia sentiente (1980-1983) el proyecto de una depuración fenomenológica de la filosofía –en el sentido de una noología–, en el presente trabajo se mostrará la continuidad entre ambas obras, a través del análisis de las nociones de “hecho” y “esencia”. Desde aquí concluiremos que si tiene sentido entender la filosofía de Zubiri como una fenomenología, ésta ya no puede ser caracterizada como un saber absoluto e infundado.
Internacionales
EE.UU. – Rusia: drogas, petróleo y guerra
Pronuncié esa conferencia a continuación de una conferencia anti OTAN organizada por Moscú el año anterior. En aquella oportunidad era el único orador estadounidense. Me habían invitado a causa de la aparición en ruso de mi libro Drogas, Petróleo y Guerra, una obra que nunca se tradujo al francés, contrariamente a lo que sucedió con mis otros dos libros: El camino hacia el nuevo desorden mundial y La máquina de guerra estadounidense. A pesar de la existencia de diferentes puntos de vista entre los conferenciantes existía cierta tendencia a compartir una gran inquietud sobre las intenciones estadounidenses hacia Rusia y los antiguos estados de la URSS. Dicha ansiedad común derivaba de lo que sabían de las antiguas actitudes de los EE.UU. y sobre la falta de mantenimiento de sus compromisos. La seguridad de que la OTAN no aprovecharía la distensión para extenderse hacia Europa del Este es un ejemplo de promesa incumplida. Ciertamente Polonia y otros antiguos países del Pacto de Varsovia se hallan integrados a la Alianza Atlántica. Como también las viejas repúblicas socialistas soviéticas del Báltico. Por otra parte persisten propuestas tendientes a incorporar a la OTAN a Ucrania, un país que verdaderamente forma parte del corazón de la antigua Unión Soviética.
Opinion
Set theory and topology. An introduction to the foundations of analysis. Part I: Sets, relations, numbers
We provide a formal introduction into the classic theorems of general topology and its axiomatic foundations in set theory. Starting from ZFC, the exposition in this first part includes relation and order theory as well as a construction of number systems.
Ambiente
God and Physics: From Hawking to Avicenna
The twin pillars of every civilization are religion and science. Contemporary cosmological theories, especially discourse about the origins of the universe, reveal the continuing encounter between physics and theology. It is a discourse which interests thinkers of our own age as much as it did those in the Middle Ages. I should like to sketch some of the current discussion in order to suggest how the contemporary world can learn a great deal from mediaeval analyses of the relationship among physics, metaphysics, and theology. In fact, to go from Stephen Hawking to Avicenna is, in an important sense, to go from confusion to clarity. Recent studies in particle physics and astronomy have produced dazzling speculations about the early history of the universe. Cosmologists now routinely entertain elaborate scenarios which propose to describe what the universe was like when it was the size of a softball, a mere 10-35 second after the Big Bang. The description of the emergence of four fundamental forces and twelve discrete subatomic particles is almost a common-place in modern physics. There is little doubt among scientists that we live in the aftermath of a giant explosion which occurred around 15 billion years ago — give or take a few billion.
Economía
World Energy: From the «Shale Revolution» to Healthy Pragmatism? (II)
Most likely, the European Union would make concessions to Russia in such an important area for both sides as energy supplies if it weren’t for the position of the U.S. For Washington, isolating Russia as much as possible from energy markets is a question of strategy, as «dependence on energy producers is incompatible with a unipolar world and is a real threat to the status of the U.S. as the only superpower». It is no accident that such close attention is given to the so-called «Greater Middle East», where 62% of proven world oil resources and over 40% of gas are found, in the concept of the Pax Americana. [14] As Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor Noam Chomsky writes, «the main goals of global domination which were formulated in the post-war era remain relevant to this day». Among these goals Chomsky names «keeping control over the main world energy sources». It is worth mentioning that as far back as 1945 the U.S. State Department declared energy resources to be «one of the most attractive trophies in world history».
Filosofía
A more general treatment of the philosophy of physics and the existence of universes
Natural philosophy necessarily combines the process of scientific observation with an abstract (and usually symbolic) framework, which provides a logical structure to the development of a scientific theory. The metaphysical underpinning of science includes statements about the process of science itself, and the nature of both the philosophical and material objects involved in a scientific investigation. By developing a formalism for an abstract mathematical description of inherently non-mathematical, physical objects, an attempt is made to clarify the mechanisms and implications of the philosophical tool of Ansatz. Outcomes of the analysis include a possible explanation for the philosophical issue of the ‘unreasonable effectiveness’ of mathematics as raised by Wigner, and an investigation into formal definitions of the terms: principles, evidence, existence and universes that are consistent with the conventions used in physics.
sociologia
Analysis of communities in a mythological social network
The intriguing nature of classical Homeric narratives has always fascinated the occidental culture contributing to philosophy, history, mythology and straight forwardly to literature. However what would be so intriguing about Homer’s narratives’ At a first gaze we shall recognize the very literal appeal and aesthetic pleasure presented on every page across Homer’s chants in Odyssey and rhapsodies in Iliad. Secondly we may perceive a biased aspect of its stories contents, varying from real-historical to fictional-mythological. To encompass this glance, there are some new archeological finding that supports historicity of some events described within Iliad, and consequently to Odyssey. Considering these observations and using complex network theory concepts, we managed to built and analyze a social network gathered across the classical epic, Odyssey of Homer. Longing for further understanding, topological quantities were collected in order to classify its social network qualitatively into real or fictional. It turns out that most of the found properties belong to real social networks besides assortativity and giant component’s size.
