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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How the Chinese Communist Party is Using Digital Tech to Promulgate Ideology
David Bandurski, The Dawn of the Little Red Phone, China Media Project, Feb 15, 2019: How can, and how will, the Party leverage digital technology to... Read more
Posted on 16 February 2019 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
Layers
Posted on 16 February 2019
CULTURE,
PHILOSOPHY,
SOCIETY
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The Efficacy of Nonviolent Resistance
Michelle Nicholason, Nonviolent resistance proves potent weapon, The Harvard Gazette, February 4, 2019: Recent research suggests that nonviolent civil resistanc... Read more
Posted on 15 February 2019 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
Emotional Expressioin in Anglophone Fiction Delines Over Two Centures
Oliner Morin and Alberto Acerbi, Birth of the cool: a two-centuries decline in emotional expression in Anglophone fiction, Cognition and Emotion, Volume 31, 201... Read more
Posted on 15 February 2019 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
Christianity is Spreading to China Via Africa
Christopher Rhodes, How Africa is converting China, Unherd, 13 feb 2019: Much has been made of the influx of Chinese money and workers into Africa over the... Read more
Posted on 14 February 2019 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
Computing Had Lots of Woman Programmers in the Early Days
From an article in the NYTimes Magazine(Clive Thompson, The Secret History of Women in Coding): Elsie Shutt learned to code during her college summers while... Read more
Posted on 14 February 2019 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
When Do Students in Elementary School Have Agency?
Not very often. Recess and "show and tell" are virtually the only times elementary school students are granted agency. Democracy, fair play, imaginative play,... Read more
Posted on 13 February 2019 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
Jordan Peterson on Education
Tyler Cowen has interviewed Peterson on a variety of topics. Education is one of them. Peterson's started an online education project and Cowen quizzed him on... Read more
Posted on 13 February 2019 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
Globalism, the Fall of the USSR, and the Rise of an International Kleptocracy...
Franklin Foer, Russian-Style Kleptocracy Is Infiltrating America, The Atlantic, March 2019. The collapse of communism in the other post-Soviet states, along wit... Read more
Posted on 13 February 2019 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
Map of Nuclear Explosions Since 1945
Map shows all nuclear explosions since 1945. Slowing down nuclear tests and minimizing nuclear weapons must be a main objective of every government. Nice... Read more
Posted on 12 February 2019 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
What Psychology Needs is Theory
Michael Muthukrishna and Joseph Henrich, A problem in theory, Nature Human Behavior, https://doi.org/10.1038/s41562-018-0522-1. Read more
Posted on 12 February 2019 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
Reframing 1619 and Enslaved Africans at Jamestown
Michael Guasco, The Misguided Focus on 1619 as the Beginning of Slavery in the U.S. Damages Our Understanding of American History, Smithsonian, Sept. 13, 2017:... Read more
Posted on 12 February 2019 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
Finnegan's Wake into Latin: The (ultimate) Deformed Reading of the (ultimate)...
I know that Deformed; a' has been a vile thief this seven year; a' goes up and down like a gentleman: I remember his name. Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothing... Read more
Posted on 12 February 2019 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
Home Socialization and Gender Preferences in Math
Gaia Dossi, David N. Figlio, Paola Giuliano, Paola Sapienza, Born in the Family: Preferences for Boys and the Gender Gap in Math, NBER Working Paper, No. Read more
Posted on 11 February 2019 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
Meant Production as a Climate Problem
We do NOT have momentum in reducing carbon emissions of agriculture or manufacturing. In agriculture, livestock methane emissions + deforestation to graze... Read more
Posted on 11 February 2019 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
The Brain Likes Movement, Rock-a-by Baby, Doodling
Richard A. Friedman, The Neuroscience of ‘Rock-a-Bye Baby, NYTimes, 10 Feb 2019: Want to fall effortlessly into profound slumber and sleep like a baby?... Read more
Posted on 11 February 2019 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
Solarpunk, Light and the End of the Climate Apocalypse Tunnel
Adam Boffa, At the Very Least We Know the End of the World Will Have a Bright Side, Longreads, December 2018; A new type of science fiction, solarpunk takes as... Read more
Posted on 10 February 2019 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
Is Deep Learning on the Way Out?
We analyzed 16,625 papers to figure out where AI is headed next https://t.co/zYPGEGUTcN — MIT Technology Review (@techreview) February 10, 2019 From the article... Read more
Posted on 10 February 2019 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
Reconstructing Speech from Signals in Auditory Cortex
Hassan Akbari, Bahar Khalighinejad, Jose L. Herrero, Ashesh D. Mehta Nima Mesgarani, Towards reconstructing intelligible speech from the human auditory cortex... Read more
Posted on 10 February 2019 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
Vector Space Explorations of Literary Language [#DH]
van Cranenburgh, A., van Dalen-Oskam, K. van Zundert, Vector space explorations of literary language, J. Lang Resources Evaluation (2019).... Read more
Posted on 10 February 2019 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY
