Friday, March 4, 2011
Are Chupa Chups Lollipops Vegetarian
"Unworthy you!" Stéphane Hessel
Back Cover
93 years. The end is not far away. What chance to take this opportunity to recall what has served as a base for my political involvement: the program developed there are sixty-six years by the National Council of Resistance! "How lucky can we feed the experience of this great strength, escaped the camps of Buchenwald and Dora, MO co-editor of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights of 1948, elevated to the rank of Ambassador France and Commander of the Legion of Honor! For Stephane Hessel, the "basic pattern of the Resistance, was outraged.
"Certainly, reasons to be indignant in the complex world of today may seem less clear than in the days of Nazism. But" seek and ye shall find ": the growing gap between the very rich and very poor The state of the planet, the treatment is to undocumented immigrants, the Roma, the race "ever" on racing, the dictatorship of financial markets and sold off to the achievements of the Resistance - Pensions , Social Security ...
To be effective, it must, like yesterday, acting in networks: ATTAC, Amnesty International Federation of Human Rights ... are the proof. So we can believe Stephane Hessel, and follow suit, when it calls a "peaceful insurrection".
Notice JB:
"Unworthy you! "Truste months now rankings of book sales in France, with our usual big sellers such as Levy, Brown, etc..
What are the reasons for this success?
Undeniably through work and form. 3 euros (which is still more expensive than a conventional book, if we reduce the price by the number of pages), an elongated shape that reminds a leaflet or a booklet, a readable and enticing headline when you wander into a bookstore and excellent media coverage (radio, TV, Internet ...). The success is such that the book is now in supermarkets stripped shelves of literary and some tobacco-bar ...
Say you just bought the book. You start flipping. It is published in "Native" ("knowledge and arts of non-industrial cultures, First Nations and our own indigenous companies"), a new collection called "those who walk against the wind" (a reference to the Indian people, the formula is in pretty all cases). Okay, so before starting the book itself, it falls on a small biography of Hessel covering the last pages of the book. Without spoiling the fun, Hessel was born in 1917 in Berlin to Jewish parents who moved to Paris later. His studies, rue d'Ulm, will be interrupted by the war where he will engage with the strength and will be deported. Became a diplomat, it will be particularly involved in the drafting of the Declaration of Human Rights in 1948 and held several official functions. He became a late writer in the early 1990s.
And, medium, the text, which begins with a brief introduction on the resistance and the values it intended to defend and implement. "[...] Energy and nationalized banks [...] struggled against great feudal economic and financial [...] like the fascist state." The empathic link qu'entretient the French way of resistance is clear, we will therefore emphasize through the "if we were the heirs of the resistance." I must confess to rather poorly made this little speech blaming, whereas inheritance is an individual notion: each is free to claim or not values, persons or actions affecting them, first as an individual, then as French, although the concept has value for him. This is followed by a few small
autobiographical elements (rue d'Ulm, Sartre, Proust, drafting of human rights ...) that never fail to give a hand "serious" in the text.
ome findings then: "We live in an interconnected world [...] but in this world there are things unbearable, we must look, look." Finally, ideas about disparity rich / poor and the importance of the Declaration Universal Human Rights embellish the argument.
The book ends with two central themes: The situation in Palestine and the notion of violence. In a few tens of minutes, the book is closed: you just finish the literary bestseller of recent months.
Do not take this text for what it is not, that is to say for a small manual to complete an economic-social revolution. It is primarily a short essay, a collection of ideas and experiences that the author has accumulated during his long career and life. The ideas developed here will unanimously in 99% of readers (Strength / Fight poverty / Less Violence / Compliance Declaration of Human Rights) will remember that people before them fought for the gains they enjoy TODAY 'hui. The appeal is more human and citizen than revolutionary. Everyone should defend his ideas and stand up if he considers that one attack his freedom, his free will, or values or acquired which he believes. This text finally, each citizen could write it in turn ...
Read or not
Great principles, great humanist ideas, a lot of generalities, the author may be sought collective awareness. In my opinion, it does not work, it's a lot of deja vu. It's finally warm enough and moralizing, and it does not give me new reasons to be indignant. 
Back Cover 93 years. The end is not far away. What chance to take this opportunity to recall what has served as a base for my political involvement: the program developed there are sixty-six years by the National Council of Resistance! "How lucky can we feed the experience of this great strength, escaped the camps of Buchenwald and Dora, MO co-editor of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights of 1948, elevated to the rank of Ambassador France and Commander of the Legion of Honor! For Stephane Hessel, the "basic pattern of the Resistance, was outraged.
"Certainly, reasons to be indignant in the complex world of today may seem less clear than in the days of Nazism. But" seek and ye shall find ": the growing gap between the very rich and very poor The state of the planet, the treatment is to undocumented immigrants, the Roma, the race "ever" on racing, the dictatorship of financial markets and sold off to the achievements of the Resistance - Pensions , Social Security ...
To be effective, it must, like yesterday, acting in networks: ATTAC, Amnesty International Federation of Human Rights ... are the proof. So we can believe Stephane Hessel, and follow suit, when it calls a "peaceful insurrection".
Notice JB:
"Unworthy you! "Truste months now rankings of book sales in France, with our usual big sellers such as Levy, Brown, etc..
What are the reasons for this success?
Undeniably through work and form. 3 euros (which is still more expensive than a conventional book, if we reduce the price by the number of pages), an elongated shape that reminds a leaflet or a booklet, a readable and enticing headline when you wander into a bookstore and excellent media coverage (radio, TV, Internet ...). The success is such that the book is now in supermarkets stripped shelves of literary and some tobacco-bar ...
Say you just bought the book. You start flipping. It is published in "Native" ("knowledge and arts of non-industrial cultures, First Nations and our own indigenous companies"), a new collection called "those who walk against the wind" (a reference to the Indian people, the formula is in pretty all cases). Okay, so before starting the book itself, it falls on a small biography of Hessel covering the last pages of the book. Without spoiling the fun, Hessel was born in 1917 in Berlin to Jewish parents who moved to Paris later. His studies, rue d'Ulm, will be interrupted by the war where he will engage with the strength and will be deported. Became a diplomat, it will be particularly involved in the drafting of the Declaration of Human Rights in 1948 and held several official functions. He became a late writer in the early 1990s.
And, medium, the text, which begins with a brief introduction on the resistance and the values it intended to defend and implement. "[...] Energy and nationalized banks [...] struggled against great feudal economic and financial [...] like the fascist state." The empathic link qu'entretient the French way of resistance is clear, we will therefore emphasize through the "if we were the heirs of the resistance." I must confess to rather poorly made this little speech blaming, whereas inheritance is an individual notion: each is free to claim or not values, persons or actions affecting them, first as an individual, then as French, although the concept has value for him. This is followed by a few small
autobiographical elements (rue d'Ulm, Sartre, Proust, drafting of human rights ...) that never fail to give a hand "serious" in the text.
ome findings then: "We live in an interconnected world [...] but in this world there are things unbearable, we must look, look." Finally, ideas about disparity rich / poor and the importance of the Declaration Universal Human Rights embellish the argument.
The book ends with two central themes: The situation in Palestine and the notion of violence. In a few tens of minutes, the book is closed: you just finish the literary bestseller of recent months.
Do not take this text for what it is not, that is to say for a small manual to complete an economic-social revolution. It is primarily a short essay, a collection of ideas and experiences that the author has accumulated during his long career and life. The ideas developed here will unanimously in 99% of readers (Strength / Fight poverty / Less Violence / Compliance Declaration of Human Rights) will remember that people before them fought for the gains they enjoy TODAY 'hui. The appeal is more human and citizen than revolutionary. Everyone should defend his ideas and stand up if he considers that one attack his freedom, his free will, or values or acquired which he believes. This text finally, each citizen could write it in turn ...
Read or not
Great principles, great humanist ideas, a lot of generalities, the author may be sought collective awareness. In my opinion, it does not work, it's a lot of deja vu. It's finally warm enough and moralizing, and it does not give me new reasons to be indignant.
Wednesday, March 2, 2011
What Happens If You Squeeze Scabies Scores
"Logicomix" A. Doxiadis, C. Papadimitriou, A. Papadatos, A. Di Donna
Back Cover:
England, 1884 - In the solitude of an old English manor house, the little Bertie Russell discovers, fascinated, the power of logic. This discovery will lead his life ...
on an American campus, 1939 - As Nazi troops invade the Old: Continent Professor Russell tells an audience of students a fascinating story, one of the greatest minds of his time, Poincaré, Hilbert, Wittgenstein, etc.., that of their relentless pursuit - but apparently he lost before - the foundations of scientific truth. And how these thinkers obstinate aesthetes those who thirst for absolute truth, always preyed by madness and exposed to the violence of their times, tried to reformulate mathematics and contemporary science.
Athens today - Three men, two women and a dog wondering about the fate of these exceptional men and their extraordinary discoveries and their continuing legacy in our everyday life ...
Immerse yourself in an exciting intellectual adventure that has already attracted hundreds of thousands of readers around the world!
notice of Emmanuel
Logicomix is one of my acquisitions Angoulême 2011. With the nice bonus dedication below (thank you again Ben and So). It is also currently my most interesting discovery. Surprising at first sight for a graphic novel that traces the history of logic, a topic that is certainly not trivial, but let's face it, not really exciting at first. And yet the four authors of this very nice pad of 340 pages are able to make this unlikely material a very good book, innovative in many ways, as smart as beautiful, and instructive as rhythmic. Once is not custom, the subject deserves a little dissection rule to take all the good measure of its rich originality.
First the background. The authors do not hide the purpose of the work was to expose the history of modern logic, focusing on the major issues that formed in the early twentieth century 'the quest of the foundations of mathematics. " So it was for them to convey to the reader a certain amount of very specific information that would likely hit a rare elite particularly interested in the subject if the data had been compiled in an essay or a treaty, or absolutely no one if the track's classic novel had been followed, the risk was as great a story to produce dry and tasteless.
Second bias narrative. The use of a multi-layered narrative is really smart and makes the narrative a fluidity that would probably not have been achieved otherwise (the authors take stage in creating comics, comic which tells a conference September 3, 1939 by Bertrand Russell in a U.S. university on the role of logic in human affairs, conference during which Bertrand Russell himself describes the events of his personal biography and the history of the quest of the foundations of mathematics. "). This seemingly complex structure is made clear by using the format "graphic" and reinforced by clever tricks of formatting or coloring that differentiate implicitly (I only realized after the finished book) different levels of narration: coaching boxes (cutout with rounded corners, square corners ...), sidebar background color pages, color codes in the boxes (black and white illustrations / examples ...).
the center of this structure in the form of Russian dolls is the biography of Bertrand Russell who did a bit of a hero of the story, or character to which attention is that we hate that one understands or that disturbs, but which leaves no one indifferent. Although this choice has forced the authors state in which the afterword, some approximations or even some historical inventions, it immediately gives a very theoretical subject a human who carries the reader from the world of ideas to the facts. Third
form. The choice of comics, it is more daring, finally appears to be an excellent idea. The design (and color) infuses indeed a precious life to work, facilitates the example and demonstration and allows a flexible organization of the narrative whose other media have failed. I must confess that over the single line without being simplistic and colorful impressed me even before they begin reading.
I leave aside the parallels and entanglement between logic and madness put forward by the authors to conclude by stressing the main message of the book, which seems very relevant (to me scientific training aspiring to a minimum of literary and humanistic). Of course, Logicomix highlights the logic as a powerful scientific tool that will find numerous fields of applications, including for example that of making decisions about human affairs. Yet "when logic freezes in global theories and seemingly perfect, it can become very vicious scam!". We now have some clues to take the measurement.
To read or not?
Yes, I strongly recommend reading this graphic novel hybrid absolutely innovative and totally exciting. I would recommend only to those like me who have no specific knowledge regarding the history of logic and mathematics to first read the notebook end of the book or refer to it regularly so as not to pass side by ignorance of important elements of context "historic" or concepts. 
Back Cover: England, 1884 - In the solitude of an old English manor house, the little Bertie Russell discovers, fascinated, the power of logic. This discovery will lead his life ...
on an American campus, 1939 - As Nazi troops invade the Old: Continent Professor Russell tells an audience of students a fascinating story, one of the greatest minds of his time, Poincaré, Hilbert, Wittgenstein, etc.., that of their relentless pursuit - but apparently he lost before - the foundations of scientific truth. And how these thinkers obstinate aesthetes those who thirst for absolute truth, always preyed by madness and exposed to the violence of their times, tried to reformulate mathematics and contemporary science.
Athens today - Three men, two women and a dog wondering about the fate of these exceptional men and their extraordinary discoveries and their continuing legacy in our everyday life ...
Immerse yourself in an exciting intellectual adventure that has already attracted hundreds of thousands of readers around the world!
notice of Emmanuel
Logicomix is one of my acquisitions Angoulême 2011. With the nice bonus dedication below (thank you again Ben and So). It is also currently my most interesting discovery. Surprising at first sight for a graphic novel that traces the history of logic, a topic that is certainly not trivial, but let's face it, not really exciting at first. And yet the four authors of this very nice pad of 340 pages are able to make this unlikely material a very good book, innovative in many ways, as smart as beautiful, and instructive as rhythmic. Once is not custom, the subject deserves a little dissection rule to take all the good measure of its rich originality.
First the background. The authors do not hide the purpose of the work was to expose the history of modern logic, focusing on the major issues that formed in the early twentieth century 'the quest of the foundations of mathematics. " So it was for them to convey to the reader a certain amount of very specific information that would likely hit a rare elite particularly interested in the subject if the data had been compiled in an essay or a treaty, or absolutely no one if the track's classic novel had been followed, the risk was as great a story to produce dry and tasteless.
Second bias narrative. The use of a multi-layered narrative is really smart and makes the narrative a fluidity that would probably not have been achieved otherwise (the authors take stage in creating comics, comic which tells a conference September 3, 1939 by Bertrand Russell in a U.S. university on the role of logic in human affairs, conference during which Bertrand Russell himself describes the events of his personal biography and the history of the quest of the foundations of mathematics. "). This seemingly complex structure is made clear by using the format "graphic" and reinforced by clever tricks of formatting or coloring that differentiate implicitly (I only realized after the finished book) different levels of narration: coaching boxes (cutout with rounded corners, square corners ...), sidebar background color pages, color codes in the boxes (black and white illustrations / examples ...).
the center of this structure in the form of Russian dolls is the biography of Bertrand Russell who did a bit of a hero of the story, or character to which attention is that we hate that one understands or that disturbs, but which leaves no one indifferent. Although this choice has forced the authors state in which the afterword, some approximations or even some historical inventions, it immediately gives a very theoretical subject a human who carries the reader from the world of ideas to the facts. Third
form. The choice of comics, it is more daring, finally appears to be an excellent idea. The design (and color) infuses indeed a precious life to work, facilitates the example and demonstration and allows a flexible organization of the narrative whose other media have failed. I must confess that over the single line without being simplistic and colorful impressed me even before they begin reading.
I leave aside the parallels and entanglement between logic and madness put forward by the authors to conclude by stressing the main message of the book, which seems very relevant (to me scientific training aspiring to a minimum of literary and humanistic). Of course, Logicomix highlights the logic as a powerful scientific tool that will find numerous fields of applications, including for example that of making decisions about human affairs. Yet "when logic freezes in global theories and seemingly perfect, it can become very vicious scam!". We now have some clues to take the measurement.
To read or not?
Yes, I strongly recommend reading this graphic novel hybrid absolutely innovative and totally exciting. I would recommend only to those like me who have no specific knowledge regarding the history of logic and mathematics to first read the notebook end of the book or refer to it regularly so as not to pass side by ignorance of important elements of context "historic" or concepts.
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