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H. Gardner, Inteligencias múltiples. H. Gardner, Mentes creativas. ALAN SOKAL. JEAN BRICMONT. IMPOSTURAS. INTELECTUALES. PAIDÓS. Barcelona. Back to Alan Sokal’s Physics Department Page (see also old page) .. el Ataque Posmodernista a la Ciencia y la Impostura Intelectual”, by. Imposturas Intelectuales – Sokal, A y Bricmont, J – Free ebook download as PDF File .pdf) or read Imposturas Intelectuales De Alan Sokal y Jean Bricmont.

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Richard Dawkinsin a review of this book, said regarding the discussion of Lacan: Views Read Edit View history. One friend of mine impoeturas me that Sokal’s article came up in a meeting of a left reading group that he belongs to.

Carmen Acosta Pina rated it it was amazing Apr 06, Number Theory for Computing 2nd ed.

Boyan Vassilev rated it it was amazing Nov 07, Sokal and Bricmont define abuse of mathematics and physics as:. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Archived from the original on May 12, Alan Sokal Jean Bricmont. The vast majority of the people are perfectly happy to fly in jets and listen to their ipods, as long as they’re not forced to face the implications of all that science.

Alan Sokal’s writings on science, philosophy and culture

Sokal followed up by co-authoring the book Impostures Intellectuelles with Jean Bricmont in published in English, a year later, as Fashionable Nonsense. His interests include computational physics and algorithms, such as Markov chain Monte Carlo algorithms for problems in statistical physics. Postmodern Intellectuals’ Imopsturas of Science Cover of the first edition. Cover of the first edition. Marcos rated it it was amazing Apr 04, Print Hardcover and Paperback.

The first section, the original hoax plus commentary should be on every undergrad curriculum as a lesson in not taking anything without questioning. Very funny and important.

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Their aim is “not to criticize the left, but to help defend it from a trendy segment of itself. They argue that this view is held by a number of people, including people who the authors label “postmodernists” and the Strong Programme in the sociology of alqn, and that it is illogical, impractical, and dangerous.

Probably no one concerned with postmodernism has remained unaware of it. Lists with This Book.

InSokal revisited the Sokal affair and its implications in Beyond the Hoax. It was interesting for me to imposturaa that one of Sokal’s main goals behind the hoax was to help left-wing goals.

Osman rated it it was amazing Jul 11, He then writes of his hope that in the future this work is pursued more seriously and with dignity at the level of the issues involved. As one of my housemates pointed out to me, it’s everything I hate, in one book!

That is, name-calling and denigration are not used, but no silly idea is spared skewering, even those claiming the “religion” exemption. To the general public he is best known for his criticism of postmodernism, resulting in the Sokal intelecfuales in This book is not yet featured on Listopia. Indeed, everything that truly irritates me intellectually is linked, by a blatant, even belligerent, disregard for reality, rationalism, and empiricism.

Más allá de las imposturas intelectuales by Alan Sokal (5 star ratings)

Want to Read Currently Soakl Read. Sokal is best known for the Sokal Affairin which he submitted a deliberately absurd article [1] to Social Texta critical theory journal, and was able to get it published.

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The blast at the Ixtoc oil well off the coast of Mexico in caused the largest ever peacetime oil spill – and has similarities to the current spill. On June 3, , the Ixtoc I exploratory well in the Bay of Campeche, blew out. It was finally capped on March 23, , days later, but during that time On June 3, the Ixtoc I,located in the Bay of Campeche in the Gulf of Mexico, exploded and caught fire at AM. The Ixtoc oil spill.

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The sinking of the Deepwater Horizon oil platform in the deep-waters of the northern Gulf of Mexico, in rekindled our concern for the significant risk involved for human lives and the health of shallow and deep marine habitats. Impacts of oil to the barrier island beaches were ranked as second in importance l protecting inlets to the bays and lagoons. Therefore, oil impact seemed to be confined to a limited area around river deltas and oil platforms.

Mexico portal Energy portal Nautical portal. The close-season regulation in Campeche Sound that extends ixroc May to October ixtooc been implemented since Due to its high ixtod, living resources, urban and industrial ixyoc and energy resources, this region has been considered strategic in the national plans for the social and economic development of Mexico.

From a strictly environmental perspective, the Ixtoc-I blowout experience has served as an example of the imperative need to strengthen the prevention and emergency procedures of kxtoc international oil and gas operations in offshore waters. In the next nine months, experts and divers including Red Adair were brought in to contain and cap the oil well.

Booms were placed across inlets to prevent the oil from getting into the fragile nursery areas of the Laguna Madre behind the barrier islands. The ecological and biological effects of energy development on coastal marshes and estuarine environments are broad and sometimes persistent and include mortality, growth inhibition, reduced production, altered metabolic systems and tainted flesh in fish and shellfish.

These authors contend that the ecological disturbances originated from the presence of the oil industry in the past two decades are severe near the areas where drilling and oil and gas extraction take place in Campeche Sound.

On the seasonal phytoplankton concentration and sea surface temperature cycles of the Gulf of Mexico as determined by satellites. The Ixtoc I oil well after the accident. Ixtoc I oil well releasing thousands of ixtooc tons of oil into the gulf. Towards and Ecosystem Integration. Pyrolysis of ixroc and biomarkers for the fingerprinting of the Amoco-Cadiz oil spill after 23 years.

It wasn’t until the lates that the population of Kemp’s Ridley turtles, which lay a couple of hundred eggs a year, as opposed to the millions produced by shrimp, started recovering. However, offshore waters and sediments adjacent to oil rigs exhibited the highest percentages, thus emphasizing their vital role as the main sources of fossil fuels in the SW Gulf of Mexico.

Downstream from the Restricted Area, such effects are attenuated by the resilient capacity of the oceanic ecosystem as a whole plankton-zooplankton-benthos-nektonand consequently the oil disturbance signals mainly caused by low molecular- weight hydrocarbons, are difficult to detect.

On the positive side, new research lines genetics and molecular biology are beginning to shed some light on this problem. Those authors attribute the present reduced fish diversity and biomass to hypoxia, climate change, oil and gas exploitation and overfishing.

Since then, only the individual efforts of a few scientists e. Few in the U. The waters in the SW Gulf of Mexico, as indicated earlier, are highly influenced by the river runoff from a major tributary system: Presently, there are still many environmental uncertainties in relation to the persistence and weathering factors of crude oil in the marine ecosystem.

The authors express their gratitude to Edwin W. Oil exploration combines the best scientific understanding and engineering skills with a measure of luck and opportunity. Another factor that precluded a preliminary environmental assessment of the seriousness of the ecological damages caused by the spill was the lack of pre-spill baseline information to compare it with the conditions of environmental midterm spills.

Skimmers, boom lines and chemical dispersants were employed in an attempt to contain the crude oil at the surface. However, egg production from the spawned pool appears to be the main problem toward computing recruitment in tropical coastal demersal communities.

Severe effects to the physical structure of mangrove forest and seagrass beds are caused by residual hydrocarbons compounds and more importantly, the perspective of ecological recovery may take on the order of decades. Retrieved 17 June The plan consists of establishing close-seasons to reduce fishing mortality in an attempt to protect the reproductive stock and to promote early juvenile recruitment. However, such operations are presumably being conducted under a better legal framework focused on preserving the health of the ecosystem.

Fresh and estuarine waters and sediments exposed to chronic oil inputs from continental sources exhibited seasonal changes. An oil dispersal model was developed in order to predict the direction of the plume and to implement a prevention plan in potential coastal areas that could receive weathered fossil hydrocarbons from the Ixtoc-I.

Apparently, no significant decline has yet been detected in the production levels other than those attributed iztoc an overexploitation e.

Ixtoc I oil spill

Social confrontations and legal suits filed against PEMEX, by social and conservation groups before State and Federal agencies due to ecological damages caused by accidental and chronic oil spills are now part of long litigation processes, minimized with subsidy compensations and damage bio-remediation actions. The blowout preventers had failed to sever the pipe in the drill hole as the fire quickly spread across the rig.

The beach that caused most international concern in Mexico was Rancho Nuevo, a key nesting ground for critically endangered Kemp’s Ridley sea turtles which had already moved inland in oxtoc hundreds to lay eggs. Stationed on the northern tip of the Padre Island National Seashore, we listened for the pinging of the buoys every two hours as they drifted northeast, and, using triangulation, established the exact location of each buoy.

One may infer then that the observed sequential ixtof described in the community structure of plankton by Licea et al.

In the particular case of the Ixtoc-I oil blowout, the reconstruction of ecological scenarios to assess the environmental damages detected in the southwestern Gulf of Mexico is a major challenge.

In the opinion of fishery scientist, the overexploitation and excessive fishing effort are the main adverse factors that explain its declining production. Pressure had built to up extremely high, dangerous, and unstable levels. Undoubtedly, there are many points of controversy among different authors when they are confronted with the analysis and interpretation of the magnitude of environmental damages caused by the oil industry in the marine ecosystem.

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Ixtoc I oil spill – Wikipedia

Unfortunately, this accident was the ixtov first- massive oil spill occurring in offshore waters of a tropical environment. The oil had a severe impact on the littoral crab and mollusk fauna of the beaches which were contaminated.

Subsequently, the circulation of drilling mud was lost resulting in a loss of hydrostatic pressure. The lessons learned from the Ixtoc-I blowout cover a broad spectrum.

In contrast, other scientists e. By the time the eggs hatched, the oil had reached the shore.