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 ( 7846 )
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A World’s Fair for a World That’s Permanently Fair @3QD
I’ve got a new piece up at 3 Quarks Daily: World Island: Zeal Means Hope [The World’s Got Talent]. It’s about my friend, Jerry Greenberg, who now goes by “Zeal”... Read more
Posted on 15 October 2018 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
The Whole Earth Catalog Evolves
Whole Earth Flashbacks takes you on a dazzling journey through time, from first Whole Earth Catalogs to Co-Evolution Quarterly, Whole Earth Review, Hackers... Read more
Posted on 15 October 2018 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
How Science Works
Path for Ph.D. pic.twitter.com/7hrk58OQIE — Manu Kumar Datyal (@manukumardatyal) October 13, 2018 H/t Mark Liberman. Read more
Posted on 14 October 2018 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
Words, from "abysmal" to "incredible"
I absolutely love data like this. This chart shows how good or bad survey respondents think certain words are. Brilliant is more positive than superb and awful... Read more
Posted on 14 October 2018 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
Optical Character Recognition for Japanese Manuscript Text
I took this manuscript photo last time when I visited the Tokyo National Museum (I got the permission). It's not in my whole dataset. I put it in OCR model.... Read more
Posted on 14 October 2018 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
In My First Post (back in 2013) About the MacArthur Fello...
In my first post (back in 2013) about the MacArthur Fellowships I quoted a 1997 New York Times article: There are at least a few observers who question the... Read more
Posted on 13 October 2018 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
Precision and Recall in TALENT SEARCH [+ Leads Qualifying Closing]
First, a quick review of yesterday’s post, TALENT SEARCH: Generating leads, qualifying them, and closing [#EmergentVentures]. Second, a remark about the... Read more
Posted on 12 October 2018 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
TALENT SEARCH: Generating Leads, Qualifying Them, and Closing [#EmergentVentures]
Generating leads, qualifying them, and closing the deal, what do they have to with finding talent? Aren’t they sales processes? Same kind of process, I think. Read more
Posted on 11 October 2018 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
Do the Most Important Artists Make the Most Expensive Paintings?
Galenson, David W., Do the Most Important Artists Make the Most Expensive Paintings? (October 2, 2018). University of Chicago, Becker Friedman Institute for... Read more
Posted on 11 October 2018 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
How Do We Know That Climate Change is Real and Happening Now?
Glenn Loury (Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs, Brown University) discusses climate change with Patrick T. Brown (Stanford University). Read more
Posted on 10 October 2018 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
How Humans Evolved, a New Story
Therefore, when the aliens landed and left TVs behind for the monkeys, they saw Gilligan's Island and said "We wanna be like you!" And that's how humans evolved. Read more
Posted on 10 October 2018 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
Cross Cultural Expression of Pain and Pleasure
Chaona Chen, Carlos Crivelli, Oliver G. B. Garrod, Philippe G. Schyns, José-Miguel Fernández-Dols, and Rachael E. Jack, Distinct facial expressions... Read more
Posted on 09 October 2018 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
Can You Get Rich, and Do Good, by Giving Away 50% of Your Top Line Revenue?
I was looking through the archives and WHAM! this jumped out at me. On point for TALENT SEARCH WEEK at New Savanna. Crazy? I suppose so. But we need this kind o... Read more
Posted on 09 October 2018 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
I’ve Decided That It’s TALENT SEARCH Week at New Savanna
I’m slated to post another column at 3 Quarks Daily this coming Monday, October 15. Over the weekend I decided that I would devote it to the MacArthur Fellows... Read more
Posted on 08 October 2018 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
What’s It Mean, This Nursery Rhyme with the Diddle Fiddle Moon Spoon?
You know, of course, that that’s (meaning) not quite what I’m after. It’s not that I don’t do meaning at all, but I tend to treat meaning as secondary. Form... Read more
Posted on 08 October 2018 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
On the Resistance to Literature
Oh, critics use form as a central theoretical concept. But it's a concept used to authorize certain ideas about meaning interpretation. Read more
Posted on 08 October 2018 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
Dizzy Gillespie on the Origins of Bebop, Heard Stravinsky in Fantasia
Once again Twitter comes through. I saw this tweet and linked on over to check out the interviews. @tedgioia @ethan_iverson https://t. Read more
Posted on 08 October 2018 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
Cultural Evolution and Human Progress
This is an old one, from the early days of New Savanna, April 21, 2010. I'm bumping it to the top because, 1) Steven Pinker has, for better or worse, given the... Read more
Posted on 07 October 2018 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
Dealing with Climate Change is Like Getting to Carnegie Hall, It Takes PRACTICE
Hurricane Sandy hits Jersey City Auden Schendler and Andrew P. Jones, Stopping Climate Change Is Hopeless. Let’s Do It. New York Times, October 6, 2018. Read more
Posted on 07 October 2018 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
2018: Extra Catsup & Double Cheese! The MacArthur Foundation Slathers 25 with...
It’s that time of year, time to update my ongoing critique of the MacArthur Fellows Program, The Genius Chronicles: Going Boldly Where None Have Gone Before? Read more
Posted on 06 October 2018 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY
