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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Friday Fotos: Breakfast, Before and After, Fork in the Middle
Posted on 12 January 2024
CULTURE,
PHILOSOPHY,
SOCIETY
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Norsemen [Media Notes 107]
I’ve just watched the first season of Norsemen (2016-2020) I loved it. But then I’ve been watching Viking sagas since Kirk Douglas starred in The Vikings (1958)... Read more
Posted on 12 January 2024 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
Maestro: "...about a Third of the Way In, the Queer Characters All but Fade Out."
Jennie Livingston, The False Note in Bradley Cooper’s ‘Maestro’, NYTimes, Jan. 9, 2024. Here: The film gets right so much of who Bernstein was, allowing us to... Read more
Posted on 12 January 2024 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
Sabine: AI is Bad News for Quantum Computing
From the YouTube page: Yann LeCun, the AI chief of Meta, has a surprisingly sane attitude to quantum computing. This deserves celebration and also... Read more
Posted on 11 January 2024 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
Some Store Fronts on Washington Street in Hoboken
Posted on 11 January 2024
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Why LLMs and Image Engines Depend on the Prior Existence of the Web
Data Bros forget that GenAI works because general web developed organically and independently to become a sort of our collective Jungian subconscious. Read more
Posted on 11 January 2024 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
LLM Leaderboard [Who Gets the Nike Swoosh?]
it’s actually insane that a hacked together 8*30b model by like 5 cracked french guys is beating the billions poured into anthropic.honestly very bearish on... Read more
Posted on 11 January 2024 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
16 Versions of the Finale for Mahler's Second Symphony [Maestro]
0:00 Ivan Fischer 2:07 Seiji Ozawa 4:02 Gilbert Kaplan 5:49 Bernard Haitink 7:49 Alondra de la Parra 9:46 Daniel Stewart 11:46 Marin Alsop 14:02 Mark Bartley... Read more
Posted on 11 January 2024 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
Turning Point
Posted on 11 January 2024
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Jonathan Tunick: Star Orchestrator
Darryn King, The EGOT Winner Behind Sondheim’s Signature Sound, NYTimes, Jan. 10, 2023. I enjoyed this article, though I’m not very familiar with Tunick’s... Read more
Posted on 11 January 2024 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
Coffee and Hypercoffee
Posted on 11 January 2024
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Psychedelic Therapy and Breathing
I know that the whole secret of yoga lies in two practices concerning which I have been unable to obtain any guidance from any body else or make any progress... Read more
Posted on 10 January 2024 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
Why the Lag Between Malthus’ Concern About Population and Science Fiction? [Why...
That’s a question Adam Robert’s posed recently: The prospect of a hugely over-crowded, hyperpopulated future was one raised, famously, by Malthus in his 1798... Read more
Posted on 10 January 2024 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
Let's Get Closer, and Closer
Posted on 10 January 2024
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A Systematic Review and New Analyses of the Gender-Equality Paradox
Herlitz, A., Hönig, I., Hedebrant, K., Asperholm, M. (2024). A Systematic Review and New Analyses of the Gender-Equality Paradox. Perspectives on Psychologica... Read more
Posted on 09 January 2024 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
Musical Notation, Its Varieties and Its Problems
This is a very interesting video on musical notation. If you aren't a musician, the topic probably seems, shall we say, empty. Read more
Posted on 09 January 2024 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
Inner Speech
2,477,708 views Jul 22, 2020 Do you always have an inner monologue? Can you imagine not having one? Or maybe you've never had an inner monologue and wondered... Read more
Posted on 09 January 2024 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
First Bacon and First Tip of 2024
Posted on 09 January 2024
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PHILOSOPHY,
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How Dan Dan O'Neill "The Air Pirates" Went After Mickey Mouse
Posted at YouTube: This is the untold story of Dan O'Neill and his underground comic collective "The Air Pirates" which would take on the brass at Disney in a... Read more
Posted on 09 January 2024 CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIETY -
First Waffle of 2024
Posted on 08 January 2024
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