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 ( 7831 )
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Electrification and Structural Transformation in America
🚨New paper 🚨w. @rowenagray6 Paul Gaggl. In the US, electrification was a key factor in structural transformation, moving workers from farming... Read more
Posted on 13 November 2019 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
The Impeachment Depositions Tell a Story About How Diplomacy in the National...
Margaret Taylor, Benjamin Wittes, The Story the Impeachment Depositions Tell, Lawfare, November 12, 2019. In fact, the voluminous pages of the impeachment... Read more
Posted on 13 November 2019 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
What’s AI? – Part 2, on the Contrasting Natures of Symbolic and Statistical...
Comparison of Semantic Nets (left) with Attractor Nets (right). See below. Color me pleased with the AI essay I just published in 3 Quarks Daily, Some Notes On... Read more
Posted on 13 November 2019 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
The Hallucinated City: Manhattan Vertical
Posted on 12 November 2019
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The King, Part IV: The Matter of Cultural Influence [Media Notes 16]
Now we know, from The Telegraph, that Michôd was quite deliberately playing off of and altering Shakespeare about young Hal/Harry/Henry V: When asked about his... Read more
Posted on 11 November 2019 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
What’s AI? – @3QD [& the Contrasting Natures of Symbolic and Statistical...
Some notes on computers, AI, the mind, and the sorry@$$ st8 of general understanding on these matters, that’s the title of my current piece at 3 Quarks Daily... Read more
Posted on 11 November 2019 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
AI in China, Policy and Regulation
Huw Roberts, Josh Cowls, Jessica Morley, Mariarosaria Taddeo, Vincent Wang, Luciano Floridi, The Chinese Approach to Artificial Intelligence: an Analysis of... Read more
Posted on 11 November 2019 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
Holding Hands with a Loved One Reduces Pain
Dana G Smith, Holding Hands Is Natural Pain Relief, Elemental, October 30, 2019. Research presented at the annual Society for Neuroscience meeting in Chicago... Read more
Posted on 11 November 2019 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
From the Vault, Newport, Jersey City, November 7, 2006, Before 8AM [Canon...
Posted on 11 November 2019
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Racial Integration of the US Army During the Korean War
Daniel Indacochea, Crossing the Color Line: The Effects of Racial Integration during the Korean War [job market paper in economics]. Read more
Posted on 10 November 2019 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
The (mis)use of Social Media as a Means of Social Control
Aviram, Hadar, Progressive Punitivism: Notes on the Use of Punitive Social Control to Advance Social Justice Ends (June 14, 2019). Buffalo Law Review,... Read more
Posted on 10 November 2019 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
Evolution: Survival of the Cooperative?
Douglas Rushkoff, Evolution Made Us Cooperative, Not Competitive, from Team Human, on Medium: Nature is a collaborative act. If humans are the most evolved... Read more
Posted on 10 November 2019 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
Ginkos at Mid-day on Saturday in Hoboken
Posted on 10 November 2019
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I’ve STILL Got a Lot Goin’ On! – Literature, AI, Progress, Talent Search, Human...
The last time I did this was October 18, and many of the items that were on my list then are still on it. So let’s start with that list (items preceded by an... Read more
Posted on 09 November 2019 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
More Photos from the BAPC Camping Trip [to Balance out Yesterday's Manhattan...
Posted on 09 November 2019
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How the Word "tea" Spread Throughout the World from China
A Map of How the Word "Tea" Spread Across the World https://t.co/12g9g76Jpx via @openculture pic.twitter.com/XcvnN8mgJB — twheidmusic (@twheidmusic) November... Read more
Posted on 09 November 2019 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
Reading the Human Swarm 6: The Great Chain of Being
In his fourteenth chapter Moffett covers one of my hobby horses, though I’m sure that’s not why he did it: The Great Chain of Being. Read more
Posted on 08 November 2019 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
A Mid-19th Century Japanese History of America
A Japanese Illustrated History of America (1861): Features George Washington Punching Tigers, John Adams Slaying Snakes Other Fantastic Scenes... Read more
Posted on 08 November 2019 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
Why the West is WEIRD – The Nuclear Family and the Medieval Catholoic Church
WEIRD = W.E.I.R.D = Western, Educated, Industrialized, Rich, and Democratic – which, as you may know, has been a term of art in the human sciences since 2010. Read more
Posted on 08 November 2019 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
Friday Fotos: A Safari into Midtown Psychedelia [the Hallucinating City?]
Wednesday morning I headed into Manhattan for a meeting on W44th St., just off Times Square in the theater district. I took my camera with me so I could catch... Read more
Posted on 08 November 2019 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY
