Bbenzon
Description
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.
MY BLOGS
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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 ( 7356 )
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Culture and Vision
Can culture shape the way we see? "Researchers found that the brains of older East Asian people respond less strongly to changes in the foreground of images tha... Read more
Posted on 15 September 2020 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
Minds Are Built from the Inside [evolution, Development]
What’s it mean, minds are built from the inside? As far as I can tell, I’ve been arguing that minds and brains are built from the inside since (at least) Januar... Read more
Posted on 15 September 2020 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
How About a Carbon Sink Tower on Roosevelt Island in New York?
rescubika proposes the world’s tallest carbon sink tower in new york: the mandragorehttps://t.co/9Eu9ehUx46 pic.twitter.com/YYjck7j9Pg — designboom (@designboom... Read more
Posted on 15 September 2020 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
Three FR8s
Posted on 15 September 2020
CULTURE,
PHILOSOPHY,
SOCIETY
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America's Central States Will Become a Dust Bowl by 2050 [global Warming]
Abrahm Lustgarten, photographs by Meridith Kohut, How Climate Migration Will Reshape America, NYTimes, Sept. 15, 2020. From the article: Americans have dealt... Read more
Posted on 15 September 2020 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
Brain-to-brain Thought Transfer @ 3QD
My current post at 3 Quarks Daily is about a subject I’ve been thinking about since early in 2002, direct transfer of thought between people through technology... Read more
Posted on 14 September 2020 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
Dennett Reviews Henrich on How "the West" Emerged out of Medieval Europe
Daniel C. Dennett, Why Are We in the West So Weird? A Theory, NYTimes, Sept. 12, 2020. A review of: Joseph Henrich: The WEIRDest People in the World: How the... Read more
Posted on 14 September 2020 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
Tweet Stream on the Replication Crisis in the Social Sciences
It begins: Over the past year I have skimmed through more than 2500 social science papers. I wrote a giant post about everything that's wrong with them and how... Read more
Posted on 13 September 2020 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
Disney in China, Whoops! [one Minute of Uighur Country in Mulan]
Brooks Barnes and Amy Qin, Disney Wanted to Make a Splash in China With ‘Mulan.’ It Stumbled Instead. NYTimes, Sept. 12, 2020. Read more
Posted on 13 September 2020 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
The Best Songs Are Those Made in Dreams
Ethnomusicologist Frances Densmore found that recordings of Native American music already circulated among the Teton Sioux, circa 1915. Read more
Posted on 11 September 2020 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
Friday Fotos: "F" is for Frog and "T" is for Toad
Posted on 11 September 2020
CULTURE,
PHILOSOPHY,
SOCIETY
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The Corrosiveness of Credentialism in American Life
Michael Sandel, Disdain for the Less Educated Is the Last Acceptable Prejudice, NYTimes, Sept. 2, 2020. Building a politics around the idea that a college degre... Read more
Posted on 11 September 2020 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
The Neural Code Meets Sydney Lamb’s Daughter
Back in 2004 science journalist John Horgan did a survey of thinking about the neural code: Decode the Human Brain? Discover Magazine, October 29, 2004,... Read more
Posted on 10 September 2020 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
Themo × 3 [old]
Posted on 09 September 2020
CULTURE,
PHILOSOPHY,
SOCIETY
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Silly Talk About the Brain & Pleasure Centers
I'm bumping this to the top of the queue because Lamb's story about his daughter assumes new relevance in the context of fantasies about direct brain-to-brain... Read more
Posted on 09 September 2020 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
Georgia O'Keeffe Online
Explore 1,100 Works of Art by Georgia O’Keeffe: They’re Now Digitized and Free to View Online @openculture https://t.co/KDM0V0XjAw pic.twitter. Read more
Posted on 08 September 2020 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
Authoritarian Leaders Thrive on Crisis, No? So Why Are They So Poor at Dealing...
Ivan Krastev, The Pandemic Was Supposed to Be Great for Strongmen. What Happened? NYTimes, Sept. 8, 2020. Some fear that more than any other crisis, a public... Read more
Posted on 08 September 2020 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
Facebook Or Freedom, Part 2: Interlude, If I Were Facebook, I’d Be Thinking…you...
https://t.co/kOTEiSHZuQ — SIVA VAIDHYANATHAN🗽🤘🏽 (@sivavaid) September 7, 2020 Thanks! Yes! — Shannon Mattern (@shannonmattern)... Read more
Posted on 07 September 2020 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
Hey, Sparkychan, What's an Interface?
Posted on 06 September 2020
CULTURE,
PHILOSOPHY,
SOCIETY
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Rambling into Fall: Facebook & the Interface, Brain-to-brain Communication, AI...
A lot’s happened since my last ramble (August 22). I’ve changed my attitude toward AI; Elon Music and Christof Koch have triggered one of my hobby horses, direc... Read more
Posted on 06 September 2020 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY
