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 ( 7628 )
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Friday Fotos: From Yesterday's Shoot
Posted on 08 December 2017
CULTURE,
PHILOSOPHY,
SOCIETY
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Calculating Meaning in “Kubla Khan” – a Rough Cut
In the spring of 1969 I became interested in Coleridge's "Kubla Khan". In the fall of 1970 I began drafting a master's thesis on the poem, hoping to create the... Read more
Posted on 08 December 2017 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
Is the Study of English Lit Going to Implode in the Next Quarter Century?
Competition with Comm / Media Studies could lead English to: 1) Make our engagement with contemporary society more rigorous, or 2) Just cut the anchor connectin... Read more
Posted on 08 December 2017 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
Small Groups and Long Memories Make for Cooperation
At Phys.org: In a new paper, published in the journal Scientific Reports, University of Pennsylvania researchers use game theory to demonstrate the complex set... Read more
Posted on 07 December 2017 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
How the Peculiar Power of Ta-Nehisi Coates Feeds on White Guilt and Despair
Brendan O'Neill, in Spiked: His insights are bleak; they are for the most part an intellectualised version of the 21st-century politics of identity and... Read more
Posted on 06 December 2017 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
Dizzy Gillespie, “21st-century Gabriel”
Writing in The American Scholar David Grogan has given us what is perhaps the best short introduction to the life and achievement of John Birks "Dizzy"... Read more
Posted on 05 December 2017 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
Tim Burke on Contemporary Politics in the USofA
We used to just saddle future generations with deficits climate apocalypse. Now we're more or less forwarding to them ALL the political challenges that we... Read more
Posted on 05 December 2017 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
Hand Style Found in Hoboken
Posted on 05 December 2017
CULTURE,
PHILOSOPHY,
SOCIETY
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Story-telling Among Hunter-gatherers Supports Cooperation
Cooperation and the evolution of hunter-gatherer storytelling Daniel Smith, Philip Schlaepfer, Katie Major, Mark Dyble, Abigail E. Read more
Posted on 05 December 2017 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
Inner Speech, Just Like Outer, Except It's Internal, and Silent to the Outer...
Neurophysiological evidence of efference copies to inner speech Thomas J Whitford, Bradley N Jack, Daniel Pearson, Oren Griffiths, David Luque, Anthony WF... Read more
Posted on 05 December 2017 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
Not with a Bang, but with a Rainbow of Ducks and a Departing Hyperobject
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Posted on 05 December 2017 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
The Long Reach of Disney: Today's Tweets
I saw this: This Is Why Evolution Started Credits: Dan Piraro Bizarro Comics pic.twitter.com/OVdMyEbMUt — Science (@scienmag) December 5, 2017 And replied with... Read more
Posted on 05 December 2017 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
Further Thoughts About Cleopatra’s Pumps: A Walk on the Beach (how Romantic)
Last time out – Some thoughts about Cleopatra’s Pumps – I observed that, while I’m primarily a street photographer, many of my shots of the green F me pump are... Read more
Posted on 04 December 2017 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
The Critique of Critique
Project MUSE - American Book Review-Volume 38, Number 5, July/August 2017 Postcritique forum https://t.co/01OS0OnKU2 — V21 Collective (@V21collective) December... Read more
Posted on 04 December 2017 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
On “the Psychological Reality of Syntax”
David Pereplyotchik at The Brains Blog: When people talk about “the psychological reality of syntax”, there are (at least) two importantly different types of... Read more
Posted on 04 December 2017 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
Robert Wright and Judith Shulevitz Discuss Male Sexual Predation
Robert Wright (Bloggingheads.tv, The Evolution of God, Nonzero, Why Buddhism Is True) and Judith Shulevitz (The New York Times, The Sabbath World) Bob and Judit... Read more
Posted on 03 December 2017 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
Stochasticity in Cultural Evolution: a Revolution Yet to Happen
Billiard, S. Alvergne, A. History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences (2018) 40: 9. https://doi.org/10.1007/s40656-017-0173-y Abstract Over the last 40 years... Read more
Posted on 02 December 2017 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
Tillerson's Folly and the Distinction Between Personal and Public Interests and...
The NYTimes has an article about the damage Tillerson has done to the State Department. The article contains this paragraph: Equally damaging, Mr. Read more
Posted on 01 December 2017 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
California Using China to Pressure Detroit Over Battery-powered Vehicles
In today's NYTimes: China’s push to become a major player in electric cars is already shaking up the global auto industry. California’s governor is hoping it... Read more
Posted on 30 November 2017 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
President Trump, Thank You! Thank You for All the Women Who Have Come Forward...
Yes, citizen Trump has played a major role in the parade of accusations, albeit an indirect and unintended role to be sure. The president of the United States... Read more
Posted on 30 November 2017 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY
