Shanta Rohse's Library tagged edge →  View Popular

Are languages merely tools for expressing our thoughts, or do they actually shape our thoughts?

www.edge.org/...boroditsky09_index.html - Preview

edge lera_boroditsky send_to_twitter psychology neuroscience communication lingusitcs

Articulate and compelling:AC Grayling on scientific literacy and participation.

www.edge.org/...grayling09_index.html - Preview

send_to_twitter edge ac_grayling

One of the effects on the newspapers is that many of their most passionate defenders are unable, even now, to plan for a world in which the industry they knew is visibly going away.

www.edge.org/...shirky09_index.html - Preview

clay_shirky newspapers edge delicious_import

When you smile, the world smiles with you.

www.edge.org/...christakis_fowler08_index.html - Preview

nicholas_a_christakis james_fowler edge social_networks happiness collective_emotions facebook linkingthinking networking delicious_import

Rushkoff on participatory democracy: Computers and networks offer us the ability to write (citizen bloggers). But the capacity they offer us is to program, and the opportunity to rewite the very rules by which democracy is implemented. Annotated link htt

www.edge.org/...rushkoff08_index.html - Preview

edge douglas_rushkoff citizen_bloggers personal_democracy participatory_democracy linkingthinking engaging delicious_import

"What we don’t know is if the genetic changes caused the cultural changes or were synergistic, and even if they did, what exactly is going on in those big brains and how is it happening? Is it just happening in ours or is it happening but just to a less

www.edge.org/...gazzaniga08_index.html - Preview

michael_gazzaniga neuroscience edge consciousness cognition evolution genetics delicious_import

Regardless whether designer microbes that replace coal and oil are part of the solution, we do need disruptive ideas and technologies to adapt to and mitigate climate change. And fear or apathy of the necessary science can only impede finding

www.edge.org/...venter.dimbleby07_index.html - Preview

craig_venter genetics edge bbc linkingthinking engaging climate_change delicious_import

"What is Love, and how does it work? Is this something that we want to understand, or is it one of those subjects that we don't really want to know more about?...." From Chapter 1: "Falling in Love", in The Emotion Machine: Commonsense Thinking, Artificia

www.edge.org/...minsky07_index.html - Preview

artificial_intelligence edge emotion marvin_minsky scientific_method delicious_import

The uniquely human ability to see the world from others' point of view evolved in response to social needs. An unexpected bonus was the ability to introspect our own thoughts and intentions.

www.edge.org/...ramachandran07_index.html - Preview

science neuroscience v_s_ramachandran edge linkingthinking delicious_import