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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Emotion Schemas Are Embedded in the Human Visual System
Philip A. Kragel, Marianne C. Reddan, Kevin S. LaBar, and Tor D. Wager, Emotion schemas are embedded in the human visual system, Science, Volume 5(7):eaaw4358,... Read more
Posted on 27 July 2019 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
Dr. Jerry is in – How to Manage Your Mind
Starting at about 23:33 Seinfeld (and his hosts) has some interesting comments on how to manage your mind. You have a daily routine, you have a place set aside... Read more
Posted on 26 July 2019 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
We Need for Utopian Thinking to Map a Road to a Better Future
Ezra Klein interviews Rutger Bregman, author of Utopia for Realists: Ezra Klein At the beginning of the book, you have this great line, “This book isn’t an... Read more
Posted on 26 July 2019 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
Friday Fotos: A Selection of Recent Photos in Order by Date [cosmos]
Posted on 26 July 2019
CULTURE,
PHILOSOPHY,
SOCIETY
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Stagnation and Beyond: Economic Growth and the Cost of Knowledge in a Complex...
In scientific prognostication we have a condition analogous to a fact of archery--the farther back you are able to draw your longbow, the farther ahead you can... Read more
Posted on 25 July 2019 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
And the Future?
What is it that Yeats wrote back in 1919 after The Great War? Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world, [... Read more
Posted on 24 July 2019 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
Can We Resolve Climate Change the Way We Put a Human on the Moon?
This is, with a dedicated national effort? John Schwartz, We Went to the Moon. Why Can’t We Solve Climate Change?, NYTimes, July 19, 2019. In 1970, Dr. Read more
Posted on 23 July 2019 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
The Difficulty of Inferring Emotion from Facial Expressions
Lisa Feldman Barrett, Ralph Adolphs, Stacy Marsella, Aleix M. Martinez, Seth D. Pollak, Emotional Expressions Reconsidered: Challenges to Inferring Emotion... Read more
Posted on 22 July 2019 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
How Does the Classical World Emerge from the Quantuam Realm?
Philip Ball, Quantum Darwinism, an Idea to Explain Objective Reality, Passes First Tests, Quanta Magazine, July 22, 2019. The quantum-classical transition: One... Read more
Posted on 22 July 2019 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
Improvisation at 3 Quarks Daily
I’ve got a new 3QD piece out: An Improviser Is Born. I think that musical improvisation is somewhat/deeply misunderstood, for more or less ideological reasons.... Read more
Posted on 22 July 2019 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
Sunday Evening at Dusk
Posted on 22 July 2019
CULTURE,
PHILOSOPHY,
SOCIETY
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Intimacy Directors for Film and Stage
Did you ever wonder how actors worked things out when they had to play intimate scenes, nuder or seminude? Well, neither did I, not really. But it's an issue,... Read more
Posted on 21 July 2019 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
Nature Insisting on Life Among the Detritus of Civilization
William Bryant Logan, writing in The NYTimes, July 20, 2019, about the resurgence of nature in the Fresh Kills Landfill on Staten Island 18 years after it had... Read more
Posted on 21 July 2019 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
Infants Inspire Computers (sorta')
A technique to improve machine learning inspired by the behavior of human infants https://t.co/ZKuSuCa6k6 #MachineLearning — Data science (@Datascience__) July... Read more
Posted on 21 July 2019 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
Social Brain and the Default Network
“Although the anatomical similarity between the social brain and the default brain is well documented, why this overlap exists remains a mystery. Read more
Posted on 20 July 2019 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
Early Morning Sun
Posted on 20 July 2019
CULTURE,
PHILOSOPHY,
SOCIETY
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Change and Development [Tech Evol]
Sections 7.3, “Change” and 7.4, “Development”, from Chapter 7, “Appropriate Technology” of David Hays, The Evolution of Technology Through Four Cognitive Ranks... Read more
Posted on 19 July 2019 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
Friday Fotos: The NOTHING Photograph, Again (for Peter)
I’ve written about NOTHING photos before*. But I love them, so why not again? Moreover, I took all but one of these when I was on a photo safari with an old... Read more
Posted on 19 July 2019 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
Boston Legal, Tricky Loyalties [Media Notes 6]
One of my online friends offered Boston Legal in response to my previous note, On the distinction between one’s personal interests and one’s duties to the... Read more
Posted on 18 July 2019 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
What Does It Mean to Get Serious About Climate Change?
Ted Nordhaus, The Empty Radicalism of the Climate Apocalypse, Issues in Science and Technology, Vol. XXXV, No. 4, Summer 2019. Read more
Posted on 18 July 2019 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY
