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Monthly Archives: January 2013
The Human Lowdown
Here’s our basic human story based on genetics. 60,000 years ago there was drought in Africa brought on by an ice age to its north. The human species lived only in Africa and had dwindled to perhaps 2,000 individuals. They looked like … Continue reading
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Tagged anthropology, atheism, Charles Darwin, evolution, Genesis, genetics, science, the Bible
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Bonobo Liberals? Chimp Conservatives?
Concerning a study of bonobo altruism, this was in The New York Times recently: The subjects were all orphaned bonobos at the Lola ya Bonobo sanctuary in the Democratic Republic of Congo. In one phase of the study, bonobos were given a pile … Continue reading
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Tagged bonobos, chimps, conservative, Darwin, evolution, liberal, psychology
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Can Your Evolved Brain Be Trusted to Bring You to the Actual Truth of Matters?
The philosopher Thomas Nagel, in his most recent book, writes the following: Mechanisms of belief formation that have selective advantage in the everyday struggle for existence do not warrant our confidence in the construction of theoretical accounts of the world … Continue reading
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Tagged Alvin Plantinga, atheism, atheist, Darwin, evolution, philosophy, science, thomas nagel
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You’re a Weirdo
__________ Jim Morrison was born in 1943. That means that, had he lived to 2013, he would be turning 70 this year. That’s a weird thought.
George Church’s Brave New World (and Ours)
Harvard molecular geneticist George Church’s interview with Der Spiegel is a must-read. Highlights: ON NEANDERTHAL CLONING SPIEGEL: Will you witness the birth of a Neanderthal baby in your lifetime? Church: That depends on a hell of a lot of things, but … Continue reading
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Tagged atheism, biology, brave new world, Darwin, eugenics, eugenics race, evolution, George Church, Neanderthals
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Sunita Williams’s Guided Tour of the International Space Station
This is life in space with departing International Space Station Commander, Sunita Williams. A few hours after making this video, she returned to Earth, landing in Kazakhstan with two of her colleagues, one from Russia and one from Japan. __________ If … Continue reading
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Tagged astronauts, NASA, progress, science, space, space station, the Enlightenment
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Flu, Guns, and Civilization
One of the great signs of the advance of human civilization in the world is vaccination. Another is that the state has a monopoly over the use of violence. By these two measures, however, it seems that the United States … Continue reading
Robots are Coming to Get You
If you missed the 60 Minutes segment on robots Sunday night, you really missed something. Here’s a taste.
A Documentary on the Life of Artist Damien Hirst Worth Seeing
__________ This web page at the Tate on Hirst is also good.
A New Olympic Sport is Born?
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Tagged beauty, dance, exercise, fitness, life, movement, Olympics, performance
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What Is This Life?
According to a recent science article at the Huffington Post, Sara Walker, an astrobiologist at Arizona State University, along with some of her colleagues, has arrived at a fresh definition of life as seen through the prism of information processing: Walker’s team … Continue reading
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Tagged art, biology, consciousness, Hegel, life, Nietzsche, philosophy, poetry, science
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Huell Howser Impersonator
Comedian James Adomian parodies Huell Howser perfectly here (but you’ll have to click over to YouTube to watch it): __________ Howser was an institution on public television in California, going around the state interviewing people. Homosexual and originally from Tennessee, … Continue reading
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Tagged California, curiosity, death, friendship, happiness, Huell Howser, life, love, poetry
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From Lemons to Lemonade: Two Cool Examples of Contingency Turned to Art (One a Painting, One a Poem)
In a collection of art essays by Roger Kimball titled Art’s Prospect (Ivan R. Dee 2003) is an essay on a Matisse exhibit in which Kimball writes the following (151): [Matisse] arrived [in Morocco in 1912] in the rainy season, and his … Continue reading
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Tagged chance, contingency, existentialism, life, Matisse, new historicism, poetry, Richard Blanco
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