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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Midnight Diner: Tokyo Stories [Media Notes 31]
I’m now well into the second season of Midnight Diner: Tokyo Stories. It’s one of my favorite series (on Netflix), but I don’t binge it. Rather, I watch an... Read more
Posted on 13 January 2020 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
Hilary Hahn on Daydreaming as a Mode of Practicing Music, of Priming Yourself...
Some time in the last week I discovered TwoSet Violin, a YouTube channel for two Australian violinists, Brett Yang and Eddy Chen. Read more
Posted on 12 January 2020 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
Sky, Trees, Houses
Posted on 11 January 2020
CULTURE,
PHILOSOPHY,
SOCIETY
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Big Tech – The Promised Land No More
A decade ago college grads looked forward to taking a job with one of the big Silicon Valley tech companies as a chance to make a good living while doing good... Read more
Posted on 11 January 2020 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
"Grand Challenges" in the Study of Cultural Evolution
Grand challenges for the study of cultural evolution (PDF) (2017): The founding members of the Cultural Evolution Society were surveyed to identify the major... Read more
Posted on 11 January 2020 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
Clever Hans Does AI – FAKE Performance in Natural Language Processing
Better language models -> more and more subtle forms of overfitting! pic.twitter.com/y8e10jkPs2 — Scott Enderle (@scottenderle) January 11, 2020 Wikipedia:... Read more
Posted on 11 January 2020 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
Friday Fotos: Power to the People [The Hallucinated City]
Posted on 10 January 2020
CULTURE,
PHILOSOPHY,
SOCIETY
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Behavior: The Control of Perception – Bill Powers Rediscovered, Again!
I decided to cruise by Slate Star Codex and saw a post with the title, What Intellectual Progress did I Make in the 2010S? Sounds ambitious, thought I do... Read more
Posted on 10 January 2020 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
Neo-Albers RGB
Posted on 09 January 2020
CULTURE,
PHILOSOPHY,
SOCIETY
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Reading Mark Moffett’s The Human Swarm
Another working paper. Title above, abstract, contents, and introduction below. Download at: Academica.edu: https://www.academia. Read more
Posted on 09 January 2020 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
Japanese Prints on Twitter
♫【川瀬巴水 [Kawase Hasui] [kawc-8]】♫ pic.twitter.com/cqcJcSFBJ3 — mako671178 (@mako671178) January 6, 2020... Read more
Posted on 08 January 2020 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
Johnny Don't Study War No More
Time to break out the anti-war/peace music. The New York Path to Peace has another video out, based on a traditional tune, When Johnny Comes Marching Home.... Read more
Posted on 08 January 2020 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
The Middle East Was at the Forefront of Global Culture in the 17th Century, and...
David Belcher, Skip the Vatican Museum. Go to the National Museum of Qatar. NYTimes, 1.7,20: The cities of the Gulf region — the modern-day, sun-draped Gothams... Read more
Posted on 07 January 2020 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
Words Before Grammar
Herbert Terrace is blogging at Psychology Today, at least in part to support his new book, Why Chimpanzees Can't Learn Language and Only Humans Can (Leonard... Read more
Posted on 07 January 2020 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
Long-term Stability of Cortical Population Dynamics Underlying Consistent...
These results fall under the category 'the unreasonable effectiveness of linear methods'. Nonlinear methods are sometimes essential to progress: we love and... Read more
Posted on 07 January 2020 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
Singularity Watch: Are We There Yet?
Tyler Cowen, 6 January 2020, Prediction difficulty seems to be rising: That is the topic of my latest Bloomberg column, here is one excerpt: My main prediction... Read more
Posted on 07 January 2020 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
Lost in Space and Anne – with an “E” [Media Notes 30]
I just finished watching the second season of Lost in Space and have re-watched the first season. I’ve also watched the second season of Anne with an “E” and... Read more
Posted on 06 January 2020 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
The Human Swarm @3QD [Mark Moffett @ New Savanna]
I’ve just posted my review of The Human Swarm at 3 Quarks Daily: Of Ants And Humans: Some Principles Of Social Organization. I’ve also written some posts about... Read more
Posted on 06 January 2020 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
A Glass of Water at the Malibu Diner
Posted on 06 January 2020
CULTURE,
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Clerks in the English Legal System – No Equivalent in the American System
Simon Akam, The Exquisitely English (and Amazingly Lucrative) World of London Clerks, Bloomberg Business Week. Clerks have co-existed with chimney sweeps and... Read more
Posted on 06 January 2020 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY
