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Early Civilizations Had It All Figured Out | The New Yorker
> Twelve thousand years ago, give or take, the static pleasures of > this long, undifferentiated epoch gave way to history proper. The > hunter-gatherer bands lucky enoug...
‘Time is elastic’: Why time passes faster atop a mountain than at sea level
‘Time is elastic’: Why time passes faster atop a mountain than at sea level : In his book “The Order of Time,” Italian theoretical physicist Carlo Rovelli suggests that our perception o...
"The scientists first carried out tests on the virtual brain tissue they created and then confirmed..."
“ The scientists first carried out tests on the virtual brain tissue they created and then confirmed the results by doing the same experiments on real brain tissue from rats. When stimulated...
Did we evolve to see reality as it exists? No, says cognitive psychologist Donald Hoffman.
Did we evolve to see reality as it exists? No, says cognitive psychologist Donald Hoffman. : Using evolutionary game theory, Hoffman and his collaborators created computer simulations to observ...
As proximity increases, so does understanding
Wow! Such an amazing article!!! https://jamesclear.com/why-facts-dont-change-minds The world would be a better place if we all approached discourse with this attitude or mindset. This bit a...
"Is a field recording album ‘like pictures of a travel’, but with audio? Or is that too..."
“ Is a field recording album ‘like pictures of a travel’, but with audio? Or is that too anecdotic? In prolongation to your thought Alexandre Galand in a recent article talks about ‘ph...
"Diets rich in carbohydrates feed acid-producing bacteria, lowering oral pH. Mutans streptococci and..."
“Diets rich in carbohydrates feed acid-producing bacteria, lowering oral pH. Mutans streptococci and other harmful species thrive in the acidic environment they produce, and they begin to swamp...
Over the years this framework keeps adapting…(via A tour...
Over the years this framework keeps adapting… (via A tour around the latest Cynefin iteration – Chris Corrigan )
Culture through childrens stories
If British children gathered in the glow of the kitchen hearth to hear stories about magic swords and talking bears, AMERICAN CHILDREN SAT AT THEIR MOTHER’S KNEE LISTENING TO TALES LARDED WITH ...
"“I think there are people that help you become the person that you end up being,” Diane tells..."
““I think there are people that help you become the person that you end up being,” Diane tells BoJack, “and you can be grateful for them even if they were never meant to be in your life f...
"Code/space occurs when software and the spatiality of everyday life become mutually constituted,..."
“Code/space occurs when software and the spatiality of everyday life become mutually constituted, that is, produced through one another. Here, spatiality is the product of code, and the code ex...
Foreground muzak
SOURCE Corporate Takeover - The Collapse of the Muzak/Music Distinction > Urban Outfitters makes music playlists available for download on > their website. About the sixth in t...
Avante-garde art that resists the destructive forces of progress
SOURCE The Trouble with Contemporary Music Criticism - Retromania, Retro-historicism, and History - by JAMES PARKER AND NICHOLAS CROGGON · January 16, 2014 > > > In an essay published...
Spotify and proletarianization
> Writing at the time of Nazi ascendancy in Germany, Walter Benjamin > identified that the “proletarianization” of humankind would pose > a unique challenge to fascist...
Leaders Assume That Employees Know What They Know
SOURCE: Mark Murphy > Typically leaders don’t come up with a new change effort on a > whim. I know that some pull change efforts out of thin air, but most > leader...
Physics tells us what matter does, but not what it is.
> …assuming causal structuralism, the manifestation of any > disposition will be another disposition, and the manifestation of > that disposition will be another dispositi...
Yammer as a Platform for the Value of Community – Simon Terry
> Here a few key reminders for community managers planning to leverage > this new Yammer product strategy: > > FOCUS ON VALUE IN YOUR STRATEGY: Yammer is just a too...
"Filling in little bubbles on a scantron and answering pre-canned questions is somehow supposed to be..."
“Filling in little bubbles on a scantron and answering pre-canned questions is somehow supposed to be a way to determine mastery or at least competence of a subject. What often happens is that ...
"We have spent so much time trying to externalize what the company is in the form of rules and..."
“ We have spent so much time trying to externalize what the company is in the form of rules and policies and contracts and communication packages and roles and titles and such, that there isn...
"information is corroding the market’s ability to form prices correctly. That is because markets are..."
“ information is corroding the market’s ability to form prices correctly. That is because markets are based on scarcity while information is abundant. The system’s defence mechanism is to ...