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The Next Great Discontinuity: The Data Deluge
Through the topology of the network we have begun to perceive what Michel Serres calls ‘The World Object’, an ecology of interconnections and interactions that transcends and subsumes the causal links propounded by grapholectic culture. At the limits of s
Almost every social problem stems from one root cause - inequality | The Guardian
These two British academics argue that almost every social problem, from crime to obesity, stems from one root cause: inequality. John Crace meets the authors of what might be the most important book of the year
Fallacy of misplaced concreteness | Wikipedia
In the philosophy of Alfred North Whitehead, one commits the fallacy of misplaced concreteness when one mistakes an abstract belief, opinion or concept about the way things are for a physical or 'concrete' reality.
Whitehead proposed the fallacy in a dis
How novels help drive social evolution | New Scientist
WHY does storytelling endure across time and cultures? Perhaps the answer lies in our evolutionary roots. A study of the way that people respond to Victorian literature hints that novels act as a social glue, reinforcing the types of behaviour that benefi
The great dictators - Last of the great books
Mortimer Adler and Robert Maynard Hutchins thought they could preserve democracy by prescribing a heavy dose of culture for the common man. Matthew Price reads a wry new history of the Great Books.
A Great Idea at the Time: The Rise, Fall, and Curious A
Edge: SELF AWARENESS: THE LAST FRONTIER By V.S. Ramachandran
One of the last remaining problems in science is the riddle of consciousness. The human brain—a mere lump of jelly inside your cranial vault—can contemplate the vastness of interstellar space and grapple with concepts such as zero and infinity. Even more
The Archaeology of The Book
Before the printed book there was the book as relic, the book as idol to knowledge. Those who could read dictated to the masses who could not. Books were material conduits to hidden, immaterial territories, placed out of reach of the proletariat – atop th
Fictional location - Wikipedia
Fictional locations are places that exist only in fiction and not in reality. Writers may create and describe such places to serve as backdrop for their fictional works. Fictional locations are also created for use as settings in Role-playing games such a
Fictional cities and towns - Wikipedia
This category contains fictional towns and cities. If on Earth, they are found in the subcategories by real-world location (state or country), so that those categories may connect with their real-world counterparts.
List of common misconceptions - Wikipedia
This list of common misconceptions details various ideas described as widely held by the general populace, but which are fallacious or flawed.
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Agnostic Machinery
Bill Maher hoped to use science to paint religion as a neurological disorder, but the researchers in his film Religulous hold a more complex picture of why we have faith.
Seed: Michael Shanks + Lynn Hershman Leeson
The archaeologist and the artist meet up to talk about presence.
Technology Doesn’t Dumb Us Down. It Frees Our Minds
EVERYONE has been talking about an article in The Atlantic magazine called “Is Google Making Us Stupid?” Some subset of that group has actually read the 4,175-word article, by Nicholas Carr.
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Darwin to the Rescue
In the face of any looming apocalypse, imagined or not, prophets abound. For the literary academy, which has been imagining its own demise for almost as long as it has been around, prophets seem always to look to science, with its soothing specificity and
Literary Darwinism should be deselected, naturally
The attempt to reduce literature to a sub-discipline of evolutionary biology is dangerous and misguided, as George Steiner's Alf Garnet moment shows
What Happens to Religion When It Is Biologized?
oloft works better than God,” a Catholic priest once told me during a conversation about depression. This is not the kind of man to give up on faith; our talks always finish with his reminders to pray. But in matters of body, and in matters of mind more a
Animal Intelligence and the Evolution of the Human Mind
As far as we know, no dog can compose music, no dolphin can speak in rhymes, and no parrot can solve equations with two unknowns. Only humans can perform such intellectual feats, presumably because we are smarter than all other animal species—at least by
Seed: The Reality Tests
Most of us would agree that there exists a world outside our minds. At the classical level of our perceptions, this belief is almost certainly correct. If your couch is blue, you will observe it as such whether drunk, in high spirits, or depressed; the co
'Just Looking' - Japanese DVD
The DVD is called Miteiru dake (Just Looking), and it features various talent/models just staring straight ahead. That’s right, the models on the DVD do very little other than stare straight at the camera. According to the website, the idea is to get yo
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