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A Discussion on Romanness Past and Present (2). Is a Roman 'Race' Surviving?27 comments

Man of Roma wrote 4 weeks ago: Arch of Titus Flavius Vespasianus at the Roman Forum. Click for credits and a larger picture Lichano … more →

Tags: Culture, History, Italy, Latin Culture, Rome, ancient Roman mores, Ancient Rome, base Roman Empire, Davide Limentani

A Discussion on Romanness Past and Present (1) The Roman Jews1 comment

Man of Roma wrote 4 weeks ago: A view of Rome. Etching by Giovanni Battista Piranesi (1729-1778). Click for credits and larger pict … more →

Tags: Culture, History, Italy, Jews, Latin Culture, Method, Rome, Thinking, ancient mores

Language as a complex adaptive system2 comments

wintz wrote 3 months ago: A prominent idea in linguistics is that humans have an array of specialised organs geared towards th … more →

Tags: research blogging, Science, Beckner et al, Complex adaptive system, Compositionality, Esoteric, Evolution, exoteric, Linguistics

Cultaptation Conference

wintz wrote 3 months ago: Earlier this year I went along to the Cultaptation Conference at St Andrews. Despite being a fascina … more →

Tags: Science, Cultural Evolution, cultaptation, St Andrews, maladaptation, feldman, boyd, caldwell, Millen

A Reply to Viswanath Regarding the Origins of Algebra

daschneider wrote 6 months ago: A reader named Viswanath replied to my previous post; I started writing a reply, but I realized it w … more →

Tags: Al-Andalus, Classics, Algebra., algebra al-andalus, cultural openness, Islam, mathematics, Muslim society, obama

How do biology and culture interact?

wintz wrote 9 months ago: In the year of Darwin, I’m not too surprised at the number of articles being published on the … more →

Tags: Science, language, Linguistics, Genetics, Evolution, Cultural Evolution

ASPM, Microcephalin and Tone3 comments

wintz wrote 10 months ago: Disclaimer: I know this post is on a paper released over a year ago; however, I’m still going … more →

Tags: research blogging, Science, tone, non-tonal, Linguistics, Genetics, demography, ASPM, Microcephalin

Because Yes, Nationalism Is Bad8 comments

joemondello wrote 11 months ago: Further proof in this tragic waste of time (HT to Idiot’s Collective) Like, truly tragically w … more →

Tags: Internet, Korea, laziness, Nationalism, Politics, Propaganda, willful ugliness

Gord, You Saved Me a Couple Fights with Korean Mothers1 comment

joemondello wrote 11 months ago: Gord Sellar has written something I wish I had written myself.  Here are the most interesting b … more →

Tags: Korea, societal devolution, empathy

The ANC and Ideology - IV4 comments

Spearpoint wrote 1 year ago: In my ‘The ANC and Ideology – I’ of 9th September I pointed out how blind and unthinking ideology ca … more →

Tags: ANC, Government, Politics, South Africa, South African Government, Afrikaans, ANC Elite, ANC Ideology, ANC leadership

Yo, Guy On Human Theater This Week . . .3 comments

joemondello wrote 1 year ago: This is a message to Cory, the guy featured in ‘I Love Dante’, this week’s edition … more →

Tags: Television, Korea, societal devolution

Cultural Transmission

drburwell wrote 1 year ago: Education as Cultural Transmission Education as Cultural transmission is the topic for the week. Ple … more →

Tags: theories of schooling, foundations of schooling

Elephant and Human Cultural Transmission

Whitney wrote 1 year ago: Sometimes, when we talk about Cultural Transmission between species, we talk about some other non-hu … more →

Tags: musings, Nature, Perception, Perspective, planet, Communication, Dolphins, Elephants

For Those Who Wish To See A Gnome Josh . . .3 comments

joemondello wrote 1 year ago: I will be on the SBS program 있다/없다 this Saturday at 5:15 4:30, in relation to the song and video I m … more →

Tags: Television, Korea, media, willful ugliness, Life, 한국 완전 정복

Evolutionary ideation or the same old thing re-packaged? Memetic struggles.

goethicus wrote 1 year ago: Among the many paradigms which appear to be undergoing a profound shift is the one concerned with th … more →

Tags: Sociology, Anthropology, mimetics, Meme, cultural inheritance, Sociobiology, social evolutionism

What Is Jung And How Can We Kill It?, Part 44 comments

joemondello wrote 1 year ago: Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 On Monday we talked about out-sourcing social functions.  Tuesday morning we we … more →

Tags: American Culture, Korea, out sourcing

What Is Jung And How Can We Kill It?, Part 34 comments

joemondello wrote 1 year ago: Part 1 Part 2 So we’ve already established that, while all human beings are pretty much packin … more →

Tags: Korea, out sourcing

What Is Jung And How Can We Kill It?, Part 24 comments

joemondello wrote 1 year ago: Part 1 On Monday morning we talked about the concept of out-sourcing certain aspects of human self c … more →

Tags: Education, racism, Korea, amorality, out sourcing

NY Times on Gireogi Appa6 comments

joemondello wrote 1 year ago: Norimitsu Onishi has an article in the Times about Korean father’s staying in Korea while thei … more →

Tags: Teaching English, Korea, language, Internet


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