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5071_32 ~C4Chaos ~C4無秩序's Bookmarks Tagged With "culture"

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  1. Visit FORA.tv - Ayaan Hirsi Ali on the Viability of Hope FORA.tv - Ayaan Hirsi Ali on the Viability of Hope

    Seeking a New Global Order: The Viability of Hope featuring Ayaan Hirsi Ali in conversation with David A. Harris.

  2. Visit Seed: Cultural Evolution Seed: Cultural Evolution

    Biologists have a pretty good idea of both how flies become resistant to DDT and how humans and primates have diverged over time. That's because the mechanism underlying these processes is the same. Using evolution we can understand how organisms … More

  3. Visit TED | Talks | Wade Davis: The worldwide web of belief and ritual (video) TED | Talks | Wade Davis: The worldwide web of belief and ritual (video)

    Anthropologist Wade Davis muses on the worldwide web of belief and ritual that makes us human. He shares breathtaking photos and stories of the Elder Brothers, a group of Sierra Nevada indians whose spiritual practice holds the world in balance.

  4. Visit Sam Harris: Losing Our Spines to Save Our Necks - Politics on The Huffington Post Sam Harris: Losing Our Spines to Save Our Necks - Politics on The Huffington Post

    Geert Wilders, conservative Dutch politician and provocateur, has become the latest projectile in the world's most important culture war: the zero-sum conflict between civil society and traditional Islam.

  5. Visit Re: Is American culture inherently wasteful? - Big Think Re: Is American culture inherently wasteful? - Big Think

    It's not just Americans who are wasteful.

  6. Visit Edge 243: VENGEANCE IS OURS Edge 243: VENGEANCE IS OURS

    What can tribal societies tell us about our need to get even?

  7. Visit Cholera Epidemic in New York City in 1832 - New York Times Cholera Epidemic in New York City in 1832 - New York Times

    On a Sunday in July 1832, a fearful and somber crowd of New Yorkers gathered in City Hall Park for more bad news. The epidemic of cholera, cause unknown and prognosis dire, had reached its peak.

  8. Visit Britain and America | Anglo-Saxon attitudes | Economist.com Britain and America | Anglo-Saxon attitudes | Economist.com

    WHEN the half-American Lieutenant Winston Churchill stood up in a ballroom at the Waldorf Astoria in 1900 to tell New York about the Boer war, Mark Twain was the man who introduced him. No fan of either Britain's imperial war in South Africa or Am… More

  9. Visit integral praxis: Towards a Scientific Theory of Cultural Evolution integral praxis: Towards a Scientific Theory of Cultural Evolution

    Pioneering researchers Deborah S. Rogers and Paul R. Ehrlich, in an open access article, have made an important contribution to understanding cultural evolution. In this article the authors differentiate some clear mechanisms for cultural emergenc… More

  10. Visit 'Population Bomb' Author Paul Ehrlich Tackles Cultural Evolution 'Population Bomb' Author Paul Ehrlich Tackles Cultural Evolution

    Paul Ehrlich rocketed to fame in 1968 with The Population Bomb, a dire forecast of imminent global famine. It might have seemed odd for such predictions to come from someone trained as an entomologist, but Ehrlich, now head of Stanford's Center fo… More

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