Category: Civilization
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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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Storytelling. An art long gone…
“Knowing how to tell a clear and coherent story is an important skill for helping young children to develop strong reading skills, which, in turn, can help them to be successful across a number of different subjects in school,” said FPG advanced research scientist Nicole Gardner-Neblett. “Prior research suggests that historical and cultural factors foster…
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Mars exploration, culture preservation, priorities…
Creating a permanent human settlement on Mars by 2025 will require serious training. To prepare its future astronauts for the task, the Netherlands-based private spaceflight project Mars One announced its plans to construct Earth-based outposts that replicate the cramped, isolated, crazy-making conditions of a Red Planet colony. (1) Such projects makes one realize we are…
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Auto-riffles, killing with your hands, civilization…
New high-tech riffles are aiming on themselves. (1) We have become machines. And now use other machines to kill. Facelessly. Anonymously. Without even having to pull the trigger, the was is just another videogame. It sounds as progress but it is anything but. We say we value life more than our ancestors, but our way of killing…
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