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 ( 7808 )
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Sayesha Chowdhury TABLA WIZARD
From the YouTube page: A Tabla duet by Pt. Pandit Keshab Kanti Chowdhury Sayesha Chowdhury (grand daughter shishsya at age of 7) performing on the occasion... Read more
Posted on 15 June 2024 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
Red Yellow White
Posted on 15 June 2024
CULTURE,
PHILOSOPHY,
SOCIETY
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Read the Classics Guided by Experts Whose Voices and Ideas Have Been Cloned...
Steven Kurutz, Now You Can Read the Classics With A.I.-Powered Expert Guides, NYTimes, June 13, 2024. The article opens: For the past year, two philosophy... Read more
Posted on 15 June 2024 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
Friday Fotos: Sinatra Drive and the Shipyard, Hoboken
Posted on 14 June 2024
CULTURE,
PHILOSOPHY,
SOCIETY
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The N.B.A. in Africa
Tania Ganguli, The N.B.A. Sees Its Future in Africa, NYTimes, June 14, 2024. The N.B.A. has been promoting basketball in Africa for more than 20 years, pouring... Read more
Posted on 14 June 2024 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
Noam Chomsky and Charles Hockett on the History of Linguistics
Julia S. Falk, Turn to the History of Linguistics: Noam Chomsky and Charles Hockett in the 1960s, Historiographia Linguistica, Volume 30, Issue 1-2, Jan 2003, p... Read more
Posted on 14 June 2024 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
Thursday Flowers
Posted on 13 June 2024
CULTURE,
PHILOSOPHY,
SOCIETY
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Will China Attack Taiwan? Probably Not, Says Velina Tchakarova
Tyler Cowen has just posted an interesting conversation with Velina Tchakarova, who "is a geopolitical strategist guiding businesses and organizations to... Read more
Posted on 13 June 2024 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
Being in Space Changes Bodies and Minds
Kenneth Chang, 3 Days in Space Were Enough to Change 4 Astronauts’ Bodies and Minds, NYTimes, June 12, 2024. Space changes you, even during short trips off the... Read more
Posted on 13 June 2024 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
Views from the Table Top
Posted on 13 June 2024
CULTURE,
PHILOSOPHY,
SOCIETY
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A Virtual Rodent Predicts the Structure of Neural Activity Across Behaviors.
Aldarondo, D., Merel, J., Marshall, J.D. et al. A virtual rodent predicts the structure of neural activity across behaviors. Nature (2024). https://doi.org/10. Read more
Posted on 13 June 2024 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
On the Fusion of Black Culture and Japanese Animation
Sierriana Terry, Harmony Hues: Blerd Views on the Fusion of Black Culture and Japanese Animation, Ph. D. Dissertation, Department of Music, University of Nort... Read more
Posted on 13 June 2024 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
Nature Boy {a Singularity}
John Coltane's 1965 recording is the first I'd even heard of this song. It became an instant favorite of mine. I believe that this particular album, The John... Read more
Posted on 12 June 2024 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
Hydrangeas
Posted on 12 June 2024
CULTURE,
PHILOSOPHY,
SOCIETY
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Young Women, More Than Men, Are Fleeing Organized Religion.
Jessica Grose, Young Women Are Fleeing Organized Religion. This Was Predictable. NYTimes, June 12, 2024. But even surrounded by believers as a college student,... Read more
Posted on 12 June 2024 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
The Vibe at Pier 13
Posted on 11 June 2024
CULTURE,
PHILOSOPHY,
SOCIETY
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Is AI About to Enter a Period of Stagnation Driven by Mistaken Business...
First some remarks by François Chollet in a recent podcast where he suggests that OpenAI has set back AI progress by 5 to 10 years by switching into... Read more
Posted on 11 June 2024 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
Adventures in Photographing Food
Looking through the photos on my computer I see that I first started photographing my meals at Hoboken’s Malibu Diner on January 20, 2018, a single photo of a... Read more
Posted on 11 June 2024 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
Julia Louis-Dryfus Talks with Carol Burnett
From the YouTube page: On the season finale of Wiser Than Me, Julia sits down in person with 90-year-old groundbreaking actress, comedian, and writer Carol... Read more
Posted on 11 June 2024 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
AI and Collaboration [superintelligence]
Over at Marginal Revolution Tyler Cowen has posted a paragraph from an interview with the mathematician, Terence Tao: With formalization projects, what we’ve... Read more
Posted on 11 June 2024 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY
