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Bookmark 'A Thousand Years of Non Linear History' : reVIEW
A Thousand Years of Nonlinear History is one the most intelligent, stimulating, and rewarding books I have read in a long time - it even surpasses De Landa's previous War in…

March 24 2010, 10:25am | Comments
Bookmark Human Culture Plays a Role in Natural Selection
As with any other species, human populations are shaped by the usual forces of natural selection, like famine, disease or climate. A new force is now coming into focus. It is…

March 2 2010, 4:38pm | Comments
Bookmark Technologies of Culture: The Archive
"'To read what was never written.' Such reading is the most ancient: reading before all languages, from the entrails, the stars, or dances. Later the mediating link of a new kind…

February 24 2010, 7:38am | Comments
Bookmark A Reporter at Large: The Interpreter
In the wake of the controversy that greeted his paper, Everett encouraged scholars to come to the Amazon and observe the Pirahã for themselves. The first person to take him up…

February 21 2010, 4:00pm | Comments
Wikipedia Cargo cult A cargo cult is a type of religious practice that may appear in traditional tribal societies in the wake of interaction with technologically advanced cultures. The cults are focused on obtaining the material wealth (the "cargo") of the advanced culture through magical thinking…

January 8 2010, 9:51am | Comments
Bookmark Is Star Trek A Religion?
Star Trek has long been described as a cult phenomenon…but is it an actual cult? Some anthropologists think so. Following the example of anthropologist Margaret Mead, they lived among the natives…

July 30 2009, 1:22pm | Comments
Bookmark Daniel Everett Debunks the Essence of Human Language
Professor Daniel Everett, author of Don't Sleep, There Are Snakes, discusses the importance of preserving dying languages. He describes his experience living with the Piraha people in Brazil, and explores what…

July 9 2009, 1:28am | Comments
Misc Wade Davis: The worldwide web of belief and ritual

June 8 2009, 1:06am | Comments
Misc The Evolution of Religions

June 7 2009, 7:31am | Comments
Bookmark Human Language Gene Changes the Sound of Mouse Squeaks
People have a deep desire to communicate with animals, as is evident from the way they converse with their dogs, enjoy myths about talking animals or devote lifetimes to teaching chimpanzees…

May 29 2009, 6:51am | Comments
Writing for 3quarksdaily In Another city another me is writing
Take this article, for example. It is an unwinding spring of phonic sounds, encoded into a series of arbitrary symbols, stretching from left to right within an imaginary frame projected onto the surface of your computer screen. Here lies the perfect example of an…

December 29 2008, 10:52am | Comments
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January 17 2006, 9:06pm | Comments

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