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 ( 7846 )
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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 -
Changizi's 7 Secrets of Success as a Theorist
My Seven Secrets to Harnessing Your Creativity as a Theorist(1) Turing Tape(2) Open-Minded(3) Proliferate and Select(4) Aloof [heeyuge!](5) Be the Boss(6)... Read more
Posted on 09 February 2019 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
The Success of Fortnite, Or: Into the Metaverse
While I know that video games are Big Business, I know relatively little about them. It seems that a relatively new game, Fortnite, released in 2017, has been... Read more
Posted on 08 February 2019 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
Jonathan Haidt on Facebook and the Problem of Large, Diverse, Secular Democracies
Jonathan Haidt in Vox: ...large, diverse, secular democracies are inherently unstable, inherently prone to division unless there are sufficient “centripetal”... Read more
Posted on 08 February 2019 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
Louis Armstrong's Philosophy of Life
Cadence: Do you have a philosophy of life? Louis: Stay happy, take good care of yourself, treat your fellow man right, can't expect no more than that. Read more
Posted on 07 February 2019 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
Dark Matter of the Brain?
Silent Neurons: The Dark Matter of the Brain? https://t.co/H2UYFxg4Fu New post! Is it true that "the great majority of nerve cells in the intact brain do not... Read more
Posted on 06 February 2019 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
Why is Switzerland So Peaceful? – Good Boundaries.
Alex Rutherford, Dion Harmon, Justin Werfel∗,Shlomiya Bar-Yam, Alexander Gard-Murray, Andreas Gros, and Yaneer Bar-Yam, Good Fences: The Importance of... Read more
Posted on 03 February 2019 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
On American Pirates of the 17th Century – Among Other Things, Crews Elected Thei...
Christopher Klein interviews author Eric Jay Dolin in The Boston Globe, "The surprising history of American pirates." As Marblehead author Eric Jay Dolin... Read more
Posted on 02 February 2019 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
The Origins of the Anthropcene and of the Modern World in the Post 1492 Death...
Alexander Koch, Chris Brierley, Mark M. Maslin, Simon L.Lewis, Earth system impacts of the European arrival and Great Dying in the Americas after 1492,... Read more
Posted on 31 January 2019 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
Invariance Principles of Brain Connectivity
The two invariance principles I hypothesized govern brain connectivity; the data across brains from small to large confirm this hypothesis. From Changizi... Read more
Posted on 29 January 2019 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
And This is Progress in Computing?
I am really fascinated by the fact that a computer with 1000x faster processor and 100x more memory than 20 years ago can still feel slower, because of ads,... Read more
Posted on 28 January 2019 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY
