Showing posts with label culture. Show all posts
Showing posts with label culture. Show all posts
Wednesday, March 19, 2025

Parents convey a male default in child-directed speech

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Interesting open source article describing experiments by Leshin et al .  (Our current MAGA overlords would like to ban such perspectives.) ...
Wednesday, March 12, 2025

Critical fragility in sociotechnical systems

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Here is the abstract and part of the introduction (giving examples of system breakdowns) of a fascinating and approachable analysis by Moran...
Wednesday, February 12, 2025

The Coup has already happened.

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It's a Coup!   Go to dogegov.com and click on articles in the drop down menu to learn about our new masters.  

Even more cheerful reading....on civilizational war and oligarchic technocracy.

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I hesitate to add to the ongoing flow of negativity in the infosphere,  but I will pass on my edited ChatGPT 4o summaries of articles by Ven...
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Friday, January 24, 2025

How much does language shape our thinking?

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I want to pass on this link to Manvir Singh's article in The New Yorker which has the title of this post.  I enjoyed reading the articl...
Wednesday, January 15, 2025

The origin of color categories

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Garside et al. make observations suggesting that cognitive mechanisms such as language are required for the expression of consensus color c...
Monday, January 06, 2025

Romantic Relationships Matter More to Men than to Women

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I pass on the abstract of an interesting manuscript that has been accepted by Behavioral and Brain Science, by Wahring et al. : Women ar...
Friday, January 03, 2025

Children as agents of cultural adaption

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When I scroll through some of the social medial sites (Instagram, Tik-Tok, X, YouTube, etc.) used by today's teenagers and their influe...
Wednesday, November 27, 2024

Half a century of quantitative cultural evolution

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The latest PNAS issue has a fascinating open source section on quantitative studies of recent cultural evolution . 
Wednesday, May 15, 2024

Collective behavior from surprise minimization

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A fascinating model for collective behavior from Heins et al .: Significance We introduce a model of collective behavior, proposing that in...
Friday, March 01, 2024

The Hidden History of Debt

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I pass on this link from the latest Human Bridges newsletter, and would encourage readers to subscribe to and support the Observatory's...
Monday, February 26, 2024

The "enjunkification" of our online lives

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I want to pass on two articles I've poured over several times, that describe the increasing "complexification" or "enjunk...
Wednesday, February 21, 2024

AI makes our humanity matter more than ever.

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I want to pass on this link to an NYTimes Opinion Guest essay by  Aneesh Raman , a work force expert at LinkedIn,  and Maria Flynn, preside...
Wednesday, February 14, 2024

How long has humanity been at war with itself?

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I would like to point MindBlog readers to an article by Deborah Barsky with the title of this post. The following clip provides relevant li...
Friday, February 09, 2024

Bodily maps of musical sensations across cultures

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Interesting work from Putkinen et al. (open source) :   Significance Music is inherently linked with the body. Here, we investigated how m...
Wednesday, February 07, 2024

Historical Myths as Culturally Evolved Technologies for Coalitional Recruitment

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I pass on to MindBlog readers the abstract of a recent Behavioral and Brain Science article by Sijilmassi et al. titled "‘Our Roots Run...
Monday, January 01, 2024

On shifting perspectives....

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I pass on clips from a piece in the 12/202/23 Wall Street Journal by Carlo Rovelli, the author, most recently, of ‘ White Holes: Inside the ...
Friday, September 29, 2023

AI, a boon for science and a disaster for creatives

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The Sept. 16 issue of the Economist has two excellent articles: How artificial intelligence can revolutionise science and How scientists ar...
Friday, September 01, 2023

The fragility of artists’ reputations from 1795 to 2020

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Zhang et al. do an interesting study using natural language processing to measure reputation over time:   Significance This study uses ma...
Friday, July 28, 2023

Unnarratability -The Tower of Babel redux - where have all the common narratives gone?

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I pass on some clips from Venkatesh Rao's recent Ribbonfarm Studio posting. . Perspectives like his make me feel that one's most eff...