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• Revisiting The Golden Bough

  

  Over the past few weeks I’ve been reading James George Frazer’s The Golden Bough and extracting from it the materials that are relevant to modern... Read more

  The 20 March 2013 by   Cris
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• Future Day is Present Day (March 1st)

  

  Photo courtesy of iStockphoto.Today is Future Day, but today is not a future day. Future Day is celebrated on the present day when that day happens to be March... Read more

  The 01 March 2013 by   Realizingresonance
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• City of Lions -- Lemberg, Lwów, and Lviv

  

  Akademicki Square, Lemberg(Source)The western Ukrainian city of Lviv has an impressive and complex legacy. It began the 20th-Century as Lemberg, an... Read more

  The 25 March 2013 by   Praymont
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• Classifying Cultures: Grade v. Clade

  

  When we account for human history in evolutionist or developmental terms, we nearly always fall into the trap of teleology and progressivism. Read more

  The 01 March 2013 by   Cris
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• The Busy Bee Brain

  

  With brains in the news these days (for example, all the hoopla about the Brain Activity Map project) I've decided to republish this old post suggesting that th... Read more

  The 05 March 2013 by   Bbenzon
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• Peddling Schopenhauer

  

  I found this ad folded inside a musty, old copy of The Works of Arthur Schopenhauer: 'The Wisdom of Life' and Other Essays (New York, NY: Black's Readers Servic... Read more

  The 11 March 2013 by   Praymont
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• Sakaki Rides a Dolphin

  

  This is one of the more popular posts at New Savanna, and it's about one of my favorite anime series. Enjoy.I want to describe what happens in a brief scene... Read more

  The 22 March 2013 by   Bbenzon
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• Myriad Meanings of “Venus” Figurines

  

  For several decades archaeologists have been debating the meaning of female-form figurines from the Paleolithic. In a now classic paper (pdf) Sarah Nelson... Read more

  The 03 March 2013 by   Cris
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• Neo Cultural-Evolutionism

  

  In evolutionary religious studies there are some scholars who claim that “religion” is an adaptation that is the product of natural selection. Read more

  The 24 March 2013 by   Cris
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• Proofing God

  

  Few things are more arid and unenlightening than the various proofs and disproofs of the existence of God. All logical statements are bounded by assumptions, an... Read more

  The 17 March 2013 by   Cris
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