Tag: civilization
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Big Data & Archeology…
In a recently released edition of the Journal of Field Archaeology, Brown Assistant Professor of Anthropology Parker VanValkenburgh and several colleagues detailed new research they conducted in the former Inca Empire in South America using drones, satellite imagery and proprietary online databases. Their results demonstrate that big data can provide archaeologists with a sweeping, big-picture…
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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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The contribution of the Holy Inquisition to civilization (no it is not a joke)
This is a re-post of an article of Theodotus blog (translation posted here) To defend and justify the Holy Inquisition is the exact opposite of Political Correctness (PC). But as I have nothing to do with PC, I am happy to present the real history of this medieval institution. Even the biggest critic of the…
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Palmyra: Islamists exposing the total void in western values. [OR: Let it burn. Let it burn...]
Palmyra is now in the hands of IS. (1) Soon, any monument there will be history. And while islamists kill, rape and destroy down here on the ground, the civilized West will be bombarding them from the air... The once Christianic Europe, the cradle of civilization, is now just a... void ready to be filled…
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