Bbenzon
Humankind got its start on the African savannas some hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of years ago. At various times in our cultural history we’ve moved to distinctly new cultural ground, as it were. And so we are moving now, and have been for the past half century. This blog is how I see that move. Intellectually, I'm broadly interested in culture and the brain. Within that compass, anything could show up here. Literature and films (including animation), certainly, music as well, and graffiti. But, other things may show up as well. It's a blog, don't you know, it moves.
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New Savanna
http://new-savanna.blogspot.com/
Humankind got its start on the African savannas some hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of years ago. At various times in our cultural history we’ve moved to distinctly new cultural ground, as it were. And so we are moving now, and have been for the past half century. This blog is how I see that move. I'm broadly interested in culture and the brain. Within that compass, anything could show up here. Literature and films (including animation), certainly, music as well, and graffiti. But, other things may show up as well. It's a blog, don't you know, it moves.
LATEST ARTICLES ( 6410 )
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How Many Types of 'intelligence'?
1. That there are many different types of problems and their solutions require different types of intelligence.2. That human intelligence is not good at... Read more
Posted on 13 June 2021 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
Hannibal Lokumbe: "The Most Sacred Place I've Ever Heard Music Performed in is...
New Music USA 2.85K subscribers Frank J. Oteri's conversation with composer/trumpeter/raconteur/poet/community activist/force of nature Hannibal Lokumbe is a... Read more
Posted on 13 June 2021 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
Wikipedia Articles as Literature Review [the Old Academy is Dying]
The secret heart of academia is... Wikipedia.In an experiment, this paper found that a single quality Wikipedia article written by chemistry experts influenced... Read more
Posted on 12 June 2021 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
More from the Jersey City Mural Festival
Posted on 12 June 2021 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
The Song of Israel Kamakawino'ole [stealth Hit from out of Nowhere]
I'm bumping this to the top of the queue on general principle. Also, it's great music. * * * * * One of my Facebook friends just linked to a YouTube video of... Read more
Posted on 12 June 2021 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
The Complete Conversation, Brother Cornel West and Brother Glenn Loury
Bloggingheads.tv 56.9K subscribers Support the Glenn Show on Substack: www.glennloury.substack.com 0:00 Teodros's new book, Conversations with Cornel West 1:04... Read more
Posted on 12 June 2021 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
Friday Fotos: Yesterday, While the Moon Danced with the Sun in the Early Morning...
Posted on 11 June 2021 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
Ross Douthat Defends Real Experience [Andreessen’s Been out in the Sun Too Long]
Ross Douthat has an important column, Decadence and Andreessen's Dilemma (Reactions, June 10, 2021). The piece begins: Early in the pandemic era, the Netscape... Read more
Posted on 11 June 2021 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
Mi’kmaw Quillwork [qorcupine Quills]
Early 19th-century Mi’kmaw quillwork on baskets. Some French colonists called us the “Porcupine Indians” for our skill in making beautiful things with... Read more
Posted on 11 June 2021 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
Why K-Pop Is More Complex Than You Think
From Jan. 16, 2020 Sound Field [PBS] From the YouTube description: K-Pop has become a global phenomenon. BTS was the first K-Pop group to perform on Saturday... Read more
Posted on 11 June 2021 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
Mary Tsingou, Pioneer in Computer Simulation of Complex Dynamics
“We thank Miss Mary Tsingou” — another important story about a #HiddenFigure, this time in the development of nonlinear dynamics and computer simulations.... Read more
Posted on 10 June 2021 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
The Ring of Fire Was More Like a Banana Over Manhattan
Posted on 10 June 2021 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
OOO! – So That’s What You Mean [Morton and Graffiti]
I'm bumping this post from April 2011 to the top of the queue in joint recognition (conjunction) of the recent New Yorker article about Tim Morton and Jersey... Read more
Posted on 10 June 2021 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
Mind Hacks 3: 1956 – The Forbidden Planet Within [Media Notes 59]
I’m bumping this post from 2010 to the top of the queue as it is relevant to my current thinking about silly, but alas widespread, fears of AI. Those fears are... Read more
Posted on 09 June 2021 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
Tim Morton Talks with a Scientist, and Then a Spirituality of Care [COVID-19 as...
Morgan Meis, Timothy Morton's Hyper-Pandemic, The New Yorker, June 8, 2021. * * * * * The next morning, I was eating a leisurely breakfast at my B. and B. when ... Read more
Posted on 08 June 2021 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
Jersey City Mural Festival
Posted on 08 June 2021 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
Searching for Unobtanium [you Can't Thread a Needle with a Hammer]
Ever since Collison and Cowen called for a science of progress back in 2019 the web has seen countless proposals about what to do, many of them assuming that th... Read more
Posted on 08 June 2021 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
Tech Trends Peaking: WWW, DL, NN
This is what happens when technologies get integrated into daily life. Peak "World Wide Web" was 1998. https://t.co/Y5Gut7YA3C pic.twitter. Read more
Posted on 08 June 2021 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
Graffiti, Context, Photographing Street Art, and the Spatial Complexity of...
Pull up a chair and let’s talk. Jersey City just had its Jersey City Mural Festival. I’ve even heard it referred to as “the first annual”, implying that it... Read more
Posted on 07 June 2021 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
Three Performances by Henry Lau [remix, Korean Style]
Having presented some of Henry Lau’s work with young musicians, I thought I’d take a look at the kind of music that made him a K-Pop star. Be warned, I know... Read more
Posted on 07 June 2021 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY