It’s good to challenge your own, limited point of view once in a while. Why would current western concepts and habits regarding love have universal normative status? Take kissing for instance. A couple kissing each other in front of others: no big deal. Or is it? In India this has long been regarded as too […]
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This View of Life: Three Waves of Evolutionary Thought
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So is God the same?
I like this blogpost. As I understand it, the author avoids presenting God in a static way, as well as presenting Him as part of an evolving universe: So is God the same?.
Darwin in Mind
See on Scoop.it – Cultural evolution #2 – Darwin in Mind: new opportunities for evolutionary #psychology. http://t.co/mz1TAr4U See on t.co
Darwin’s iPhone: The Politics and Rhetoric of Neuroscience, Evolutionary Psychology, and Online Education
See on Scoop.it – Cultural evolution In a recent speech, John Tooby, one of the founders of evolutionary psychology, compared the human brain to an iPhone full of different apps. (Huffingtonpost! Tom Uytterhoeven‘s insight: I’m not sure what to think of this article. It starts of with some critical remarks on evolutionary psychology and cognitive […]
Men Are From Earth, Women Are From Earth – Care2.com (blog)
See on Scoop.it – Cultural evolution Men Are From Earth, Women Are From Earth Care2.com (blog) The study is a direct repudiation of pop evolutionary psychology, which holds that male and female traits are hard-wired and predetermined. Tom Uytterhoeven‘s insight: If I understand this article correctly, there is not so much a biological basis for […]
The Economics Behind the Monopoly Board Game
See on Scoop.it – Cultural evolution Fans on Facebook just changed Monopoly’s iron token to a cat. Now 110 years old, what does the board game teach us about economics and capitalism? Tom Uytterhoeven‘s insight: Amazing what a game can tell us about one of the most dominant elements in the human cultural niche: the […]
Preparing for Lent
Doing a Twexit, leaving candy alone, or committing to a new habit? Read how Christians recontextualize their tradition… http://www.catholicherald.co.uk/features/2013/02/07/its-time-for-one-last-chocolate-biscuit/.
Jared Diamond, traditional societies and myths of the future
See on Scoop.it – Cultural evolution The World Until Yesterday: What Can We Learn from Traditional Societies? by Jared Diamond, reviewed by John Gray. (http://t.co/kLoIxjQM) See on http://www.newstatesman.com
Super Bowl Ads: Has Our App-Happy Culture Boxed Out The Profound? – Forbes
See on Scoop.it – Cultural evolution Super Bowl Ads: Has Our App-Happy Culture Boxed Out The Profound? Tom Uytterhoeven‘s insight: A cultural comment, based on ads. Remarkable: when you go to the sites, you have to sit through… an ad 🙂 Thing is, the author claims, based on the ads aired during the Super Bowl, […]
Weekly Gardening 