Adam Curtis a jeho blog nikdy nezklame... tentokrát (mimo jiné) o tom, jak britská horrorová antologie Přízraky noci (Dead of Night) spustila diskuzi, jejíž výsledkem byla tzv. Steady State theory, alternativa k terorii Velkého třesku.



One September night in 1945 three British mathematicians and astronomers went to see a new film at a cinema in Cambridge. It was called Dead of Night. It was a series of ghost stories told by a group of people gathered together in a farmhouse. The stories are linked by a device of a central character who is convinced that he has experienced the whole situation in the farmhouse before. In the end he murders another of the group - but then wakes up from this terrible dream.

That morning the telephone rings, he is invited down to the farmhouse, and the whole story, or dream, starts all over again.

The scientists loved the film, and they sat discussing its circular structure. One of them suggested that it could be the model for how the whole universe really worked. That, although the universe was expanding, it was also constantly renewing itself - to maintain itself in a steady state.

Out if this came what was called the "Steady State" theory of the universe. It was going to dominate scientific thinking for the next twenty years, and it would also make one of the three scientists very famous.

He was a very difficult and argumentative man called Fred Hoyle - and the story of what happened to him and his idea is odd and funny - and also shows how science can often add a spurious certainty to the stories that modern societies tell themselves.

I also want to tell the story of two of the men behind the film Dead of Night - because both of them were convinced that the certainties of the post-war years had trapped Britain in a narrow bubble that was preventing it from seeing the world as it really was.

And we may still be in that bubble.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/adamcurtis/2012/02/a_mile_or_two_off_yarmouth.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steady_State_theory

http://www.csfd.cz/film/35396-prizraky-noci/

LA_PIOVRA: když se pak pochlubíš jizvama, tak si prohodíme nicky! :)

Premyslel jsem, kam to dat, ale nejsopis to nejde ctenare tady:)

Tigers, Crocodiles, Korans and Superstitions
http://www.michaelyon-online.com/tigers-crocodiles-korans-and-superstitions.htm

When a man says, “It’s a jungle out there,” he means, “It’s the Sundarbans.” Among the many wild and unforgiving places in the approximately 65 countries I’ve traveled, most are fairly safe when approached with good judgment and aforethought. The Sundarbans is not one of those places. Few jungles are this dangerous.
The natives here rub shoulders with mortality on a daily basis. And so before venturing into the labyrinth waterways, one should acquire a guide, which in my case was a government employee with a powerful FN-FAL rifle to ward off man and beast. Competent, local guides are always your best insurance, and if I had a choice of any rifle in the world to bring here, the FN-FAL would be high on the list. And so those boxes were checked.

Robert Neuwirth v rámci TED talks o Shadow Cities

Robert Neuwirth: The "shadow cities" of the future - YouTube
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_2Js_g7M60M

Ještě jednou z Atlasu. Konečně vím, kde se vzal výraz klipák, který používá můj otec :)

Nevím, kam to dát, tak to dám taky sem...

DARPA/Boston Dynamics Big Dog - YouTube
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bwa8m8VwhWU&feature=player_embedded


0:50 a 1:50 !!!

Český jazyk a ohryzek od jablka...



Kdyby měl někdo náhodou Český jazykový atlas doma a chtěl se ho zbavit, klidně jen jednotlivých dílů, tak prosím pošta.