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Zeitgeist and Ethos: May 2008
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Intersections of biology, evolution, ethics, culture, human intelligence and technology. Strategic Security Blog from FAS. Recursivity, again and again. VC on Web 2.0. Northern California, United States. View my complete profile. Saturday, May 31, 2008. Hot on the heels of Susan Jacoby’s paean (“ The Age of American Unreason. Like Jacoby, the problem is technology’s withering effect on deep processing of complex ideas. There is nothing terrifically new here, though. 8221; in the 80s. I certainly hope tha...
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Zeitgeist and Ethos: March 2008
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Intersections of biology, evolution, ethics, culture, human intelligence and technology. Social Cohesion and Freedom. Strategic Security Blog from FAS. Recursivity, again and again. VC on Web 2.0. Northern California, United States. View my complete profile. Tuesday, March 25, 2008. Drawn-in as I am by HBO's John Adams miniseries,. Thursday, March 6, 2008. Social Cohesion and Freedom. Sometimes small pebbles of coherence emerge from this interest, like work on characterizing the complexity of grammars fo...
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Zeitgeist and Ethos: November 2008
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Intersections of biology, evolution, ethics, culture, human intelligence and technology. Strategic Security Blog from FAS. Recursivity, again and again. VC on Web 2.0. Northern California, United States. View my complete profile. Thursday, November 6, 2008. The most striking effect of the election of Barack Obama was how the extreme Right Wing legitimized outright insanity. I'll get back to that in a moment. Chronicles a few of them, including the remarkable claim that Obama was hypnotizing his audiences.
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Zeitgeist and Ethos: Predictions, Risk Lag and Throughput Acceleration
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Intersections of biology, evolution, ethics, culture, human intelligence and technology. Predictions, Risk Lag and Throughput Acceleration. Strategic Security Blog from FAS. Recursivity, again and again. VC on Web 2.0. Northern California, United States. View my complete profile. Thursday, January 1, 2009. Predictions, Risk Lag and Throughput Acceleration. Looking back to 2001 A Space Odyssey. Is just how unprophetic it really was in many ways. 2) Increasingly effective voice recognition and control of t...
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Zeitgeist and Ethos: September 2008
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Intersections of biology, evolution, ethics, culture, human intelligence and technology. Startles and Moral Reasoning. Gray Laptops and Luminous Clouds. Strategic Security Blog from FAS. Recursivity, again and again. VC on Web 2.0. Northern California, United States. View my complete profile. Friday, September 19, 2008. Startles and Moral Reasoning. I was startled awake today by the work at University of Nebraska, Lincoln, that showed a potential link between political affiliation and startle response.
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Zeitgeist and Ethos: February 2008
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Intersections of biology, evolution, ethics, culture, human intelligence and technology. Reason and Social Darwinism. Flat Worlds and Clouds. Strategic Security Blog from FAS. Recursivity, again and again. VC on Web 2.0. Northern California, United States. View my complete profile. Sunday, February 24, 2008. Reason and Social Darwinism. Susan Jacoby’s The Age of American Unreason. Is my weekend reading. Indeed, paleoconservatives like Pat Buchanan routinely revive a weakened form of these notions when op...
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Creationism v Evolution: Creationism - how to respond?
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Friday, 30 November 2007. Creationism - how to respond? Reposted from: http:/ stephenlaw.blogspot.com/2007/11/creationism-how-to-respond.html. Check out the comments that follow the article. Creationism - how to respond? If you have ever had a conversation with a creationist of the "young earth" variety (who believe the entire universe is less than 10K years old, with all species created by God as described in Genesis), you'll know it is a frustrating experience. Posted by Stephen Law. Age of the Universe.
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Creationism v Evolution: Attempts to introduce Intelligent Design in Europe spark backlash
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Wednesday, 9 January 2008. Attempts to introduce Intelligent Design in Europe spark backlash. Reposted from: http:/ arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20070626-attempts-to-introduce-intelligent-design-in-europe-spark-backlash.html? Via BHA Science Group. Published: June 26, 2007 - 11:02AM CT. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). UK Government - creationism in science lessons. Public understanding of science. Attempts to introduce Intelligent Design in Europe. WASP - World Atheist Science People. Http:/ en....
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Zeitgeist and Ethos: January 2009
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Intersections of biology, evolution, ethics, culture, human intelligence and technology. Predictions, Risk Lag and Throughput Acceleration. Strategic Security Blog from FAS. Recursivity, again and again. VC on Web 2.0. Northern California, United States. View my complete profile. Thursday, January 1, 2009. Predictions, Risk Lag and Throughput Acceleration. Looking back to 2001 A Space Odyssey. Is just how unprophetic it really was in many ways. 2) Increasingly effective voice recognition and control of t...
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Creationism v Evolution: September 2007
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Friday, 14 September 2007. Reposted from: http:/ cectic.com/050.html. Wednesday, 12 September 2007. Clergy Letter Project - Christians in support of Evolution and science. Labels: Christians and evolution. Monday, 10 September 2007. Reposted from http:/ www.irreligion.org. Here’s a delightful diagram of maturing fetuses of various types. We clearly have nothing in common. Texas Board of Education Unlikely to Include Creationism. Reposted from Atheist Revolution. Wednesday, September 05, 2007. Christian e...
