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, […]
Depressing books could be just what the doctor ordered – Telegraph
See on Scoop.it – Cultural evolution Instead of ‘mood-boosting books’, imagine doctors handing out prescriptions for gloomy masterpieces by Samuel Beckett and Thomas Hardy. Martin Chilton looks at the appeal of 20 great depressing novels. Tom Uytterhoeven‘s insight: I love this ironic take on a new program in the UK, subscribing self help books for […]
LEST IX
My Faculty organizes a conference on the Liturgy on 23-26 October 2013: LEST IX. They’ve put together quite a program, as you can see! CFP deadline 02/15, so act fast…
CultureLab: Ice-age art hints at birth of modern mind
See on Scoop.it – Cultural evolution CultureLab: Ice-age art hints at birth of modern mind – http://t.co/3OMgfCel #art #culture #environment #news Tom Uytterhoeven‘s insight: This is a must-see exhibition, I think. If I only had the time (and the money)! Love this quote from curator Jill Cook: "What’s so spectacular about the modern brain, and […]
Tool Use, Culture and Human Hubris – Huffington Post
See on Scoop.it – Cultural evolution Tool Use, Culture and Human Hubris Huffington Post Chimpanzees, our closest relatives, demonstrate something awfully close to culture, once considered uniquely human. Tom Uytterhoeven‘s insight: I do not believe the author delivers really novel information in this blogpost. Most of the examples are rather classic ones, in my view. […]
Back to the Future
Always fun to think what the future will be like. I’ve stumbled upon this info graphic on Mashable about future trends. Notice the utopia/distopia distinction! As usual, these kinds of predictions say as much about our current time as about the future, but it still makes you wonder… What do we want to happen, what […]
Excellent video, (w)rapping up both biological and cultural evolution pretty good! A shame the rap simplifies the relation between science and religion to a conflict between reason and irrational belief in an afterlife, though. A reductional flaw?
This of course immediately raises questions about possible analogies in cultural evolution…
Steven Pinker: Linguistics as a Window to Understanding the Brain
See on Scoop.it – Cultural evolution Steven Pinker – Psychologist, Cognitive Scientist, and Linguist at Harvard University How did humans acquire language? In this lecture, best-selling author S… Tom Uytterhoeven‘s insight: Steven Pinker always pushes your mind (no pun intended) a bit further… And some other interesting videos in the same YouTube-channel to! See on […]
Weekly Gardening 