As A.I. capabilities accelerate, the technologist is shocked by the “complete lack of engagement” with the question of how to manage its risks.

As A.I. capabilities accelerate, the technologist is shocked by the “complete lack of engagement” with the question of how to manage its risks.

From an anthropologist renowned for overturning outdated evolutionary dogma, a lively, myth-busting, and transformative new portrait of human evolution What if it turns out that most of the stories w...

YouTube video by Naomi Klein

We climaxed in the last post. So, this final post, in what started as a page-by-page review of Sapiens, is a sort of epilogue. https://en.wi...

This is my penultimate post about the book   Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind .  For some reason, the previous post felt like rock bot...

There are only three posts left in my (ninth) journey through Sapiens . This is the first of those final three. I started with so much to sa...

There's a new essay in the journal Theory and Society and it's concerned for the state of, and future of, the social sciences.  It's got " e...

We did not?  It did?  Without thumbs? This is the next post in my ninth and final journey through the book Sapiens .  We are in Chapter 5: H...

My endeavor to review Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Noah Harari one page at a time is now advancing one chapter at a time....

My  endeavor to review Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Noah Harari one page at a time  is, from now on, advancing one chapter...

I'm finally getting around to a home improvement project I've been planning for close to forever. I'm painting our entire mudroom, which we ...

This is the last post covering Chapter 2, as part of my endeavor to review Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Noah Harari one pa...

The Report on the State of Scholarship in the Humanities and the Humanistic Social Sciences identifies anthropology as the single most extreme case of scholarly deterioration in the humanities and soc...

A traveler asked: “How could ancient people possibly understand mathematics?” Excellent question. We accidentally invented geometry while trying to avoid car...

I   have a macular pucker in one eye, scar tissue on the macula, and now straight lines that I see with this eye are distorted, objects are ...

I   have a macular pucker in one eye, scar tissue on the macula, and now straight lines that I see with this eye are distorted, objects are ...

Abstract. Gregor Mendel developed the principles of segregation and independent assortment in the mid-1800s based on his detailed analysis of several trait

6 lessons scientists under siege learned the hard way, and how we all can fight back