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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Milestones in the Utilization of Energy from Prehistory to Present
This is another post using material from David Hays, The Evolution of Technology Through Four Cognitive Ranks. New York, Metagram Press, 1995. Read more
Posted on 17 December 2018 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
Netflix Has Been Dragged Kicking and Screaming into Theaters
Brooks Barnes, Netflix’s Movie Blitz Takes Aim at Hollywood’s Heart, NYTimes: Netflix’s newfound attention to theaters is an olive branch to Oscar voters. Read more
Posted on 17 December 2018 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
The Great Wave
The Evolution of The Great Wave off Kanazawa: See Four Versions That Hokusai Painted Over Nearly 40 Years https://t.co/YwUjZvOn8K pic.twitter. Read more
Posted on 17 December 2018 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
The Universal Decay of Collective Memory and Attention
Cristian Candia, C. Jara-Figueroa, Carlos Rodriguez-Sickert, Albert-László Barabási César A. Hidalgo, The universal decay of collective memory and... Read more
Posted on 16 December 2018 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
Visionary Women
An Illustrated Celebration of the Rebels, Visionaries, and Fiercely Courageous World-Changers Who Won Women Political Power https://t. Read more
Posted on 16 December 2018 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
Stagnation 1: The Phenomenon and a Simple-minded Model with Some Remarks on...
I don’t remember just when I read about stagnation (in the production of new ideas), but it would have been on the Marginal Revolution blog and it would have... Read more
Posted on 15 December 2018 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
Space Travel: What We Have Here is a Failure of Imagination
Just around the corner from John Quiggin has posted “No planet but this one” at Crooked Timber (link below). His first two paragraphs: The Voyager 2 spacecraft... Read more
Posted on 14 December 2018 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
Friday Fotos: Jersey City Night Vision
Continued, in a way, from last week. I seem to be in a mood for night vision visions of the night. Read more
Posted on 14 December 2018 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
Computation in Language Process
New working paper. Title above, abstract, table of contents, and introduction below. Download here: Academic.edu:... Read more
Posted on 13 December 2018 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
That's What I Want, Unbounded Complexity with Open-ended Evolution
Corominas-Murtra B, Seoane LF, Solé R. 2018 Zipf’s Law, unbounded complexity and open-ended evolution. J. R. Soc. Interface 15: 20180395.... Read more
Posted on 13 December 2018 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
A Short Note on Why It is Important to Conceive of Culture as Giving Rise to an...
On December 1 I posed four questions in the study of cultural evolution, offering short answers for each: 1. What is the target/beneficiary of the evolutionary... Read more
Posted on 12 December 2018 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
Where is Mrs. Maisel Going?
I have now watched both seasons of The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel. I like the show a lot. But where’s it going? I ask that question, not because I found the second... Read more
Posted on 12 December 2018 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
Creating American Sign Language Signs for Technical Terms in the Sciences
Science has a lot of technical terms, many of which are quite long – think of genus-species nomenclature in biology. Of course, one can always use signs to spel... Read more
Posted on 12 December 2018 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
Computation in Language 3: Myths, Stories, and Writing
I’ve been arguing that speech communication, in effect, is a computational input/output device for symbols. Its computational power is necessarily quite limited... Read more
Posted on 11 December 2018 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
A Perpetual Church Service to Protect 5 Immigrants from the Dutch Police
Patrick Kingsley, The New York Times, 12.10.18: Under an obscure Dutch law, the police may not disrupt a church service to make an arrest. Read more
Posted on 10 December 2018 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
Was Post-war Anti-communism Ginned up as a Device to Support "We're Number One"...
FP=foreign policy. ... partially as a means to justify primacy, and this culture, in turn, helped shape the ideology of generations of Americans. — Daniel... Read more
Posted on 10 December 2018 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
Israel Kamakawiwo'ole on 3 Quarks Daily, Plus More IZ
A new piece up at 3QD: Wonderful Rainbow Aesthetics: The Song of Israel Kamakawiwo'ole. Here’s some more IZ: Here he is in a Hawaiian nationalist mode, “Hawaii... Read more
Posted on 10 December 2018 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
Jubilee! Bronze Age Economics (perhaps We Should Give It a Go, No?)
Michael Hudson, "How Bronze Age Rulers Simply Canceled Debts", Evonomics: ... the Bronze Age and early Western civilization was shaped so differently from what... Read more
Posted on 10 December 2018 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
Two Versions of Weeds
Posted on 08 December 2018
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Angels Hide and Entrepreneurs Seek [TALENT SERCH]
Merwan H. Engineer, Paul Schure, Dan H. Vo, Hide and seek search: Why angels hide and entrepreneurs seek, Journal of Economic Behavior Organization,... Read more
Posted on 08 December 2018 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY
