The Late Enlightenment

We're still in the Enlightenment, only now reason has shown us that we are not reasonable - and a more empirical study of man helps us remember the point of the whole program

Sunday, September 8, 2013

Seal Imitates Art

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When I ran across this sad fellow on the beach in Malibu some years ago, for some reason I had the urge to drape a melting clock over him. ...

Wednesday, September 4, 2013

The "Food Desert" Idea is a Useless or Harmful Myth

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The narrative of the food desert goes something like this: grocery stores are where you get produce and healthy food. Grocery stores are p...

Sunday, September 1, 2013

Brent the Chimp, Untitled (Tongue-Painting)

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Saturday, August 31, 2013

Comments on Haidt's Righteous Mind: Moral Convention vs. Universal

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It's good; you should read it. There are multiple good reviews elsewhere, but suffice it to say, he builds a case using empirical psych...

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Loyalty, Optimization and Corporate Empires

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Peter Turchin's War and Peace and War analyzes patterns of empires in history, extending the work of Gibbon's Roman history and espe...

Sunday, August 18, 2013

Strange But True Naval Battles

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It turns out that Japan was not the only place the Yuan Mongol Navy lost ( more here ); but perhaps even stranger than that, there was a Wor...

Saturday, August 17, 2013

Without Constraints, How Do Humans Behave?

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Cross-posted to my geek blog as well as Cognition and Evolution . Life on Earth evolved in an environment of constraints: resource limita...

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