Bbenzon
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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 ( 7846 )
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Paul "charter Cities" Romer Has Reservations About Big Tech [tax Those Digital...
Steve Lohr, Once Tech’s Favorite Economist, Now a Thorn in Its Side, NYTimes, May 20, 2021. Paul Romer was once Silicon Valley’s favorite economist. Read more
Posted on 21 May 2021 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
Friday Fotos: Waffles at the Malibu Diner
Posted on 21 May 2021
CULTURE,
PHILOSOPHY,
SOCIETY
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Plastic Chairs
Posted on 20 May 2021
CULTURE,
PHILOSOPHY,
SOCIETY
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Jon Stokes Has Doubts About Software Being Able to Write Software
Jon Stokes, When software writes the software that eats the world: The muse learns to code, doxa, May 19, 2021. Here's the opening of his latest newsletter:... Read more
Posted on 20 May 2021 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
Mega-corporations as Pseudo-governments [virtual Feudalism]
Binyamin Appelbaum, Why Are Tech Companies Pretending to Be Governments? NYTimes, May 19, 2021. Philadelphia spent almost half a million dollars wooing... Read more
Posted on 20 May 2021 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
Japanese Illustrated Books on Line
The Met Puts 650+ Japanese Illustrated Books OnlineMarvel at Hokusai’s One Hundred Views of Mount Fuji and More https://t.co/EX4zxlb8Rs pic.twitter. Read more
Posted on 20 May 2021 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
Kids and Music 6: Henry Lau’s Freestyle Express [Born to Groove]
Let’s pick up where we left off with my previous post on Lau, Born to Groove, Kids and Music 3: Henry Lau has a good heart knows how to work with kids... Read more
Posted on 19 May 2021 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
Bleg: International Hit Tunes Arising Outside the American Hit Machine [Media...
And I don’t mean the Beatles or Abba. The oldest example in my memory is something that went by the name of “Sukiyaki” in the English speaking world. It’s a... Read more
Posted on 19 May 2021 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
Pynchon Meme in UK
Muted Posthorn symbol in its natural environment, here on the Riverside Bridge over the River Cam at Logan's Meadow, Cambridge, UK. #RiverCam #Cambridgeshire... Read more
Posted on 19 May 2021 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
Explanation in Neuroscience and Artificial Intelligence
I've now turned this into a PDF file which you can download here: https://www.academia.edu/37815917/Mind-Culture_Coevolution_Major_Trans... In the early 1970s... Read more
Posted on 19 May 2021 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
The Word Illusion in Literary Criticism
We all know that each word has a spelling, a pronunciation, and one or more meanings. Different words may have the same meaning. Spellings and pronunciations ar... Read more
Posted on 18 May 2021 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
Time for Some More Iris Photos, 5 of Them
Posted on 18 May 2021
CULTURE,
PHILOSOPHY,
SOCIETY
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The Self is a Network of Relationships and Commitments
Kathleen Wallace, You are a network, Aeon Essays. From the essay: Who am I? We all ask ourselves this question, and many like it. Is my identity determined by m... Read more
Posted on 18 May 2021 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
The Microbial Signatures of Industrialized and Nonindustrialized Humans
'Non-industrialized [human gut] microbiomes are similar to the microbiomes of our human ancestors, and industrialized populations have diverged from this... Read more
Posted on 18 May 2021 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
Analyze This! Dad’s Thermostat [Do Not Touch!]
The essential building blocks of comedy are an elegant intertwining of really dumb and really smart. – Jerry Seinfeld That was from The Tonight Show in 1986. Read more
Posted on 17 May 2021 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
Types of Research, R&D Ventures, by ‘guesstimated’ Probability of Success...
An email I recently sent to Tyler Cowen, with his succinct response. * * * * * Hi Tyler, I was wondering if any systematic work has been done on classifying... Read more
Posted on 17 May 2021 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
Some Items of Clothing from Madam Wayquay's Museum of Clues to the Recent Past
Posted on 17 May 2021
CULTURE,
PHILOSOPHY,
SOCIETY
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The Role of Clothing in Cultural Evolution [agriculture, Rank 2]
Sam Dresser, The clothing revolution, Aeon. My recent work shows that clothing wasn’t just the unique adaptation of a more-or-less hairless mammal to the... Read more
Posted on 17 May 2021 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
Japanese Prints 1600-1915
Download 2,500 Beautiful Woodblock Prints and Drawings by Japanese Masters (1600-1915) https://t.co/SNqzx6aVFv pic.twitter.com/StqLA2SBPm— Open Culture... Read more
Posted on 17 May 2021 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
Paganini Caprice No. 24 on Electric Bass [LingLing 40 Hours!]
At about 0:24 CharlesBerthoud mentions that he learned this piece by practicing 40 hours a day. That is impossible as a day only has 24 hours. Read more
Posted on 16 May 2021 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY
