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Technological Innovation: CBS and video player in a printed magazine

The news is not new: since mid-August the U.S. television network CBS announced that incrustaría video player in the ads for the new season of his series on the entertainment magazine Entertainment Weeky.

The result is curious, as seen in the video and is an example of the search for media innovation. Produced in partnership with Pepsi Max, CBS has called this new form of information dissemination VIP (for its acronym in English that means video-in-print or English video form).

As shown in the video, the VIP is similar to the greeting cards that have an audio and is activated when the person gets back to the page. Both audio and video are very good quality. You do not have volume controls and can result from Altöm volume, which may have intended to attract the attention of people nearby.

This innovation is being tested, as the VIP only embedded in magazines aimed at subscribers Enterteinment Weekly in Los Angeles and New York.

As the public, VIP works better than the so-called E-ink (electronic ink). A device that allows paper has the characteristics of the banners that appear on Web sites (moving, for example) and Esquire magazine had on its front page October 2008 (see video below)

The truth is that technological innovations related to the media are constantly ... Video

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Your imagination is what causes us to believe in God?

I have translated this article that may explain why we tend to give credit - and blame - a God who actually is innocent ...

Only humans practice religion because they are the only creatures on earth that have developed the capacity of the imagination.

That is the argument of the Franco-British anthropologist Maurice Bloch of the London School of Economics. Bloch opposes the popular notion that religion evolved and spread because it promoted social bonding, as argued by some anthropologists.

Instead, he argues that first, human beings have had to evolve in brain architecture to imagine things and beings that do not physically exist, and to believe in the possibility that people - in some way, to live after have died.

Once this is achieved, humans could use what Bloch calls "social significance" and unite in groups, nations and clans, or even with imaginary groups such as the dead. The social significance also allows humans to follow the idealized codes of conduct associated with religion.

"What the social significance required is the ability live - to some extent - in the imagination, "says Bloch.

" You can be a member of a transcendental group, or nation, though never in contact with other members of the same " Bloch says. Moreover, the composition of these groups, "whether they are clans or nations, may also include the living and the dead."

Currently, this idea of \u200b\u200blinking communities living and dead, occurs in the Christian notion of being "one body with Christ" or the Islamic "Ummah" uniting Muslims.

Animals do not have this capacity of social importance, even our closest relatives, chimpanzees, says Bloch. And the reason is they can not imagine beyond the immediate social circle, or backwards and forwards in time, a capacity that humans do have.

Bloch believes our ancestors developed the necessary neural architecture to imagine before or around 40 to 50.000 years ago, at the end of the Stone Age.

At the same time, the tools used for hunting and the man who had been monotonously primitive began more sophisticated. The art began appearing on cave walls, and burials began to include objects, suggesting a belief in an afterlife, and therefore the "transcendental social".

But Bloch argues that religion is just one manifestation of this unique ability to form relationships with value systems, people do not exist or are distant.

"Once we realize this omnipresence of the imaginary in the everyday, there is nothing special to explain about religion," he says.

Chris Frith of University College London, co-organizer of the meeting "Sapient Mind" meeting in Cambridge last September, thinks Bloch is right, but that "theory of mind" - the ability to recognize that other people or creatures exist, and think for themselves, can be as important as the evolution imagination.

"As soon as you have theory of mind, it is possible to deceive others, or being tricked," he says. This, in turn, generates a sense of justice and injustice, which could lead to moral codes and the possibility of an officer of the watch "- God - who can see and punish all the wicked.

Is it true that ? If so, we must start looking for someone else to give credit and blame ...

This article is a translation of excerpts from the following sources:

• http://rstb.royalsocietypublishing.org / content/363/1499/2055 (original source)
• http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn13782-religion-a-figment-of-human-imagination.html (citing the original article in English)
• http: / / www.dailygalaxy.com/my_weblog/2009/10/did-development-of-human-imagination-50000-years-ago-lead-to-belief-in-god.html (citing the original article in English)

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A Girlfriend Experience ... the Love is more expensive than the sex

The other day I wanted to watch a movie - without going to the movies of course - and I got a title which stunned me: "The Girlfriend Experience ( Steven Soderbergh, USA 2009) Without reading the synopsis immediately figured it was the story of a guy who longed to live the experience of "having a girlfriend." Well, the theme of the movie was not exactly that, because it was an almost teenage prostitute, in his erotic services offered by the experience of being a bride.

I noticed the term and I went to Wikipedia and found that if such service exists within the "sex trade" and that the client tries to experience the prostitute as his girlfriend. For example, the prostitute dinner with him, walk hand in hand through park, kissing tenderly and passionately, talk of "their problems", etc. and eventually have sex. Given the intensity of the service (you can buy sex but not love) the cost of a GFE is very high: more than 2 000 euros if the prostitute has more than 25 years. If you are 18 can reach 10 thousand dollars. Love is more expensive than sex.

I do not know whether to pay for a GFE ensure the experience of "having a girlfriend," whatever that means, we do experience is the cost of having a girlfriend! Even without the complications of a relationship or fears (Who first put the horn to whom?).

By the way, the movie is good. According to the synopsis posted on the site where I downloaded, The Girlfriend Experience is "five days in the life of Chelsea, a prostitute from New York luxury that charges $ 10,000 per night, her boyfriend Chris accepts his lifestyle and manage their own business by coming to win $ 2000 each time. But in this business, you never know who you will meet ... "

" The Girlfriend Experience is not a typical Hollywood film. There is a nice movie where love triumphs because the world is wonderful. Sasha Grey, the actress who plays the prostitute is a porn actress in real life and the film shows a cold world that an economic crisis and values. A teenage world, who knows that goes to empty and enjoys going for him. Officer Trailer