Category: Silence
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Language. Civilization. Silence. Re-death.
Sixty years ago, renowned Harvard psychologist B. F. Skinner published one of the most important books ever written about language. Verbal Behavior offered a comprehensive account of our unique capacity for symbolic communication, arguing forcefully over nearly 500 pages that it was learned rather than innate. The culmination of years of work, it was certainly…
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Against politics.
So many people talking. So many people shouting. But the world was not created in noise. Logos did not first appear with sound. True philosophy can never be in favor of politics. In a world where all speak their self, no one knows himself. In a world full of thought, no one can understand the…
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Why?
Why? A question that hides all the answers. Why does the world exist? We wander… Without understanding just how what we ask also answers our question. How would we look for whys in a world without cause? How? A question that in itself explains why we should not even ask her... Everything can be done…
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Bear. Silence. Destruction.
Alaska’s Gates of the Arctic National Park is so vast that it stretches across an area bigger than Vermont, Rhode Island and Delaware combined. Karupa Lake, tucked off in its northern corner, is so remote that reaching it takes a four-hour skiplane flight from Fairbanks. And it’s so quiet — a day alone there could…
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The many, the few, the Truth… [Twitter and correct information spreading]
In the maelstrom of information, opinion and conjecture that is Twitter, the voice of truth and reason does occasionally prevail, according to a new study. Tweets from "official accounts" can slow the spread of rumors on Twitter and correct misinformation that's taken on a life of its own. The research team from the Emerging Capacities…
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