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Putting an End to Endianism: the feud you probably never noticed but take...
“This is an attempt to stop a war. I hope it is not too late and that somehow, magically perhaps, peace will prevail again.” (Cohen 1980) Let’s begin this tale of the conflict you’ve probably never...
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Climate, Cultural Theory and the Myths of Nature
A nice article by Howard Silverman of People & Place on the links between climate change, cultural theory and the myths of nature identified by the Resilience Alliance. http://bit.ly/959Dmp
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Biosemiotics and slime mould
Image by randomtruth via Flickr New Scientist has an interesting article on the ways in which it may make sense to talk about non-conscious entities creating meaning. Biosemiotics....
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Evidence-based riots
It’s been hard to move recently for people leaping to conclusions. Everyone with an Internet connection has already posted an opinion about the supposedly obvious causes of the London riots. Medhi...
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A two-bit theory of social reality
Image via Wikipedia It is not obvious whether the world is analogue or binary, continuous or discrete. It’s a live question and the subject of a recent essay contest set up by the Foundational...
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magic and technology
Prof Alan Jacobs wants to know whether magic and technology can learn to get along with each other. He laments the dominant tone of fantasy literature that sees natural magic opposed to cultural...
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How cultural commitments damage your ability to reason
When people don’t accept the scientific evidence, it may be useless to present them with yet more evidence. They are not stupid. They are simply protecting their cultural identity. Here’s the...
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The feedback loop as a symbol for life in the 21st Century
self-organisation is a high-level property that emerges from the underlying network, not a feature of any of the individual components. This has interesting consequences. Where any part of the...
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Apparently, “Science Confirms The Obvious: Strict Parents Raise Conservative...
“Science Confirms The Obvious: Strict Parents Raise Conservative Kids” – http://pulse.me/s/eC9fb If so, would it be possible to conduct similar experiments to test whether parents with a particularly...
View ArticleFour ways to assemble the evidence on climate change
To pursuade more people about climate change we need a greater diversity of argument
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