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.
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 ( 7846 )
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We Got Rhythm: The Magic of the Bell, Swing in a Racing Shell, a Cornerstone of...
This is about and experience that is very important in human society, but that has only recently come been the object of exploration and investigation. Read more
Posted on 30 November 2019 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
Let's Get Wild
Posted on 29 November 2019
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Why Talk About Culture as an Evolutionary Phenomenon?
Wrapping up my recent working paper, Divergence and Reticulation in Cultural Evolution, has brought that question to the fore. I’ve been worrying about it for... Read more
Posted on 29 November 2019 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
Friday Fotos: Sunk, Beached, Abandoned
Posted on 29 November 2019
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Fake Citrus
Citrus Series by American contemporary painter Dennis Wojtkiewicz (https://t.co/zpVIUwai9C) pic.twitter.com/n07k6bbk21 — 41 Strange (@41Strange) November 29, Read more
Posted on 29 November 2019 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
Street Photography, Like a Batter Hitting a Ball
I often post photographs to Howard Rheingold’s Brainstorms community. Occasionally I’ll make a remark or two. Like this one: I never know what I've shot until... Read more
Posted on 28 November 2019 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
From Yesterday's Shoot, the (honeyed) Glow of a Gloomy Day [El Greco in Toledo]
Posted on 28 November 2019
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On Reciting "Kubla Khan" from Memory, a Twitter Conversation
Adam Roberts was discussing his trials with the poems of Geoffrey Hill. He tweeted: There are poems from "For The Unfallen" I can recite whole from memory,... Read more
Posted on 28 November 2019 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
Now Trump Has Decided to Corrupt the Military
Geoffrey S. Corn, Rachel E. VanLandingham, The Gallagher Case: President Trump Corrupts the Profession of Arms, Lawfare, 26 Nov 2019: Chief Petty Officer Eddie... Read more
Posted on 27 November 2019 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
Night and Day: Hoboken's 14th Street Viaduct
Posted on 27 November 2019
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Divergence and Reticulation in Cultural Evolution: Some Draft Text for an Articl...
That's the title of my latest working paper. You can download it here:... Read more
Posted on 27 November 2019 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
The Coupled-group as a Single Unified Cultural Actor, a Brief Note
I have written of a group coupled in music-making as a single actor. There are two aspects to this, physical and intentional. A single physical system When a... Read more
Posted on 27 November 2019 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
My Edwin Moses Swatch
That’s his signature on the inside of the watch strap. Moses has won eight gold medals internationally in the 400 meter hurdles and currently has the fifth... Read more
Posted on 27 November 2019 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
Tyler Cowen on the Difference Between Bricks and Buildings in the Construction o...
Mark Zuckerberg recently hosted Tyler Cowen and Patrick Collison for a discussion on progress; as you may recall, they’d recently issued a call for progress... Read more
Posted on 26 November 2019 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
Mark Liberman on Speech Recognition 26 Nov 2019
Mark Liberman, Shelties On Alki Story Forest, Language Log, 26 Nov 2019. Last week I gave a talk at an Alzheimer's Association workshop on "Digital Biomarkers". Read more
Posted on 26 November 2019 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
The Hallucinated City: I Reflect Therefore I Am
Posted on 26 November 2019
CULTURE,
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Universality and Idversity in Human Song
Samuel A. Mehr1, Manvir Singh4, Dean Knox, et al., Universality and diversity in human song, Science 22 Nov 2019: Vol. 366, Issue 6468, eaax0868, DOI:... Read more
Posted on 26 November 2019 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
Douthat on Why Trump May Survive Impeachement
Ross Douthat, How Trump Survives, NYTimes 26 Nov 2019: ... that part of the country relies on general heuristics rather than the specific details of presidentia... Read more
Posted on 26 November 2019 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
Pizza
Posted on 25 November 2019
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The Great British Baking Show [my Mother Had Skills] [Media Notes 21]
A couple of weeks ago I started watching The Great British Baking Show – known as the Great British Bake Off, Bake Off, or GBBO in Britain. Read more
Posted on 25 November 2019 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY
