Ele começou a se perguntar: eu ouvia todo tipo de música, mas ela não me agrada mais, não sinto mais sua magnificência. alma agora seria um prado verde .. Então ele se pergunta: aqueles livros que eu amei, respeitei quem os escreveu e acreditei em cada palavra deles por muitos anos, então onde eles estão? Por que suas palavras já não despertam meu entusiasmo como costumavam... Por que me decepcionam?! Aqui surge no horizonte uma pergunta que atinge como um raio: os ocidentais são realmente melhores do que nós? E o que eles se distinguem de nós? Eles reclamam sobre…

WASHINGTON (AFP) - The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) said on Friday (June 11) it had told Johnson & Johnson that millions of doses of Covid-19 vaccine produced at a troubled plant can't be used because of possible contamination issues. In a statement, the FDA said "several" batches of vaccine manufactured at the Emergent BioSolutions facility in the city of Baltimore are not suitable for use. Each batch is known to correspond to several million doses. Neither the agency nor J&J revealed the precise number of doses, but the New York Times placed the number at 60 million, quoting…

McKay Coppins reports that nobody wants to write anti-Biden books, because nobody wants to buy them. He’s too boring. Excerpt: For now, the most successful conservative authors are training their f ire on more abstract targets, such as “wokeness” and “cancel culture.” A quick review of recent best sellers suggests that ignoring Biden can work just fine. According to BookScan, which tracks most hardcover sales, Andy Ngo’s book on antifa, Unmasked, has sold more than 77,000 copies (an unqualified success in political nonfiction), as has Rod Dreher’s Live Not By Lies, which bills itself as a “manual for Christian dissidents.” The talk-radio host…

The last century has seen the emergence of several humanitarian norms and laws that were arduous, even frustrating, to implement and often ignored by governments, but which were the result of important lessons learned from the destruction that the world wars brought to civilian populations. Historical attempts to limit organized brutality had existed before the world wars, as the Peace of Westphalia of 1648 – which brought the system of modern states into existence – epitomizes. Though these efforts should not be trivialized, the world wars catalyzed efforts to devise legal mechanisms to protect civilians and combatants on a global…

Pearson sent us this report recently–Exploring the Learning Curve. The big idea here is the changing skill needs for students globally. It is based on this idea of an index–a Global Index of Cognitive Skills and Education Attainment. The report explains: “The Global Index of Cognitive Skills and Educational Attainment compares the performance of 39 countries and one region (Hong Kong) on two categories of education: Cognitive Skills and Educational Attainment. The Index provides a snapshot of the relative performance of countries based on their education outputs.” In short, it is formatted around 6 lessons and 8 skills. The lessons…