Articles of Note
These are all things I've come across online (largely thanks
to Arts & Letters Daily and my
family),
that have seemed to me particularly apt, or exciting, or important (though not
necessarily 'correct').
| The
Trivialization of Outrage: The Artworld at the End of the Millennium (Roger Kimball, 07/99) |
Kimball quotes Dostoevsky: “Incredible as it may seem, the day will come when man will quarrel more fiercely about art than about God.” |
| Propaganda (Noam Chomsky, 03/91) |
You think you're safe just because you're smart? |
|
What
Brings a World Into Being? |
Asking questions about the nature of information. |
|
Competing
for Consciousness |
A Darwinian model of thought. |
| Mirror
Neurons (V.S. Ramachandran, 05/01. see also critical analysis) |
Newly discovered brain structure and imitation learning as the driving force behind "the great leap forward" in human evolution. |
| Defining
Social Justice (Michael Novak, 12/00) |
Is it the government's responsibility to create our Utopia? |
|
A
Linguistic Big Bang |
The sudden genesis of a new language. |
| Zoo
Master (Interview with Philip Zimbardo, 10/00. The latter part is especially interesting.) |
Psychologists flirt with the boundaries of ethical research to plumb the depths of human evil. |
|
The
Web We Weave |
Culture as a collective mind. |
|
What are
Numbers, Really? |
A cerebral basis for number sense. |
| Will
Globalization Make You Happy? (Robert Wright, 09/00. Ignore the poorly written 'box' at the end.) |
Some interesting aspects of a far-from-simple issue. |
|
Lovely
Zeta |
The purest of mathematics may be tested in the physicist's lab: the Riemann Hypothesis as a chaotic quantum system. Layman's explanation. For the more mathematical among us, see Zeta: Inexplicable Secrets of Creation, a website that discusses this theory in more detail. |
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