dies iræ

Dies Irae

Fui convidado a produzir um especial de fim de ano para a seção brasileira do Discovery Channel, talvez com participação do Rei Roberto, que versará sobre a vida em nosso planeta daqui a cem anos (isto é: em 2100). Após duas semanas de pesquisa e entrevistas, chegamos a algumas conclusões:

(i) global warming

(ii) o ser humano será substituído por uma cadeira-de-balanço

(iii) os computadores negros serão mais inteligentes que os brancos

(iv) o Japão vai morrer devido a um erro de cálculo na Megapirâmide

(v) o Brasil será governado pela companhia de engenharia de tráfego do estado de São Paulo.

Como tornar-se aquilo que se é

Ciência é Poder

Dr Paul Rothemund at the California Institute of Technology can make 50 billion smileys, each a thousand times smaller than the diameter of a human hair, with his technique.

In a potent demonstration of his so-called DNA origami technique, Rothemund has created half a dozen shapes, including a five-pointed star, a snowflake, a picture of the double helix and a map of the Americas in which one nanometre represents 120 kilometres.

Teologia

In the eighteenth century it was often convenient to regard man as a clockwork automaton. In the nineteenth century, with Newtonian physics pretty well assimilated and a lot of work in thermodynamics going on, man was looked on as a heat engine, about 40 per cent efficient. Now in the twentieth century, with nuclear and subatomic physics a going thing, man had become something which absorbs X-rays, gamma rays and neutrons.

Santa Edwiges, Batman!

Fazendo as contas pra viagem de fim de ano

Muppet Babies, we make our dreams come true
Muppet Babies, we'll do the same for you

Kermit: When your world looks kinda weird and you wish that you weren't there
Piggy: Just close your eyes and make believe and you can be anywhere

Kermit: I like adventure
Piggy: I like romance
Fozzie: I love great jokes
Animal: Animal dance!!
Scooter: I've got my computer
Skeeter: I swing through the air
Rowlf: I play the piano
Gonzo: And I have blue hair
Bunsen: Me, I invent things
Beaker: Mee mee mee meee!

Nanny: Is everything all right in here?
All: Yes, Nanny.

Muppet Babies, we make our dreams come true
Muppet Babies, we'll do the same for you

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