Monday evening reverie… the Power of the Pentatonic Scale.
Bobby McFerrin at the World Science Festival.
September 14, 2009
September 13, 2009
Sunday evening exploration… New York Times - Mapping the Human ‘Diseasome’
Via: @earleyedition @kcarruthers.
Sunday inanity… William Shatner in Lucy in the sky with diamonds.
Via: http://www.hplusmagazine.com/editors-blog/shatner-has-some-splainin-do
Sunday morning reflection… Is the world getting better or worse?
From: http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20327250.900-blueprint-for-a-better-world.html
September 11, 2009
Friday morning majesty: The Cosmic Dragon…
From: http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn17765-upgraded-hubble-telescope-spies-cosmic-dragon.html
September 9, 2009
Wednesday evening reflection… Diversity of Species in the Rainforest.
Via: http://osocio.org/message/diversity_of_species_in_the_rainforest/
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∞September 8, 2009
September 6, 2009
"Our intuitions are systematically biased. Evolutionary psychology explains how our moral intuitions and the rationalizations they spawn have been shaped by millennia of natural selection to maximize the inclusive fitness of our genes and not to track the welfare of other sentient beings impartially conceived."
David Pearce, Post-Darwinian Ethics (http://www.hplusmagazine.com/articles/bio/post-darwinian-ethics)
"Humanity’s true moral test, its fundamental test, consists of its attitude toward those who are at its mercy: animals. And in this respect, human kind has suffered a fundamental debacle, a debacle so fundamental that all others stem from it."
Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being
