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Recommendation: What Is Real?
Last week I started listening to a Sean Carroll podcast episode, an interview of Adam Becker on his book, What Is Real?: The Unfinished Quest for the Meaning of Quantum Physics. Before even finishing the episode, I downloaded Becker’s book … Continue reading
Posted in Science
Tagged History, Interpretations of quantum mechanics, Physics, Quantum mechanics, Science
16 Comments
The antecedents of western philosophy
Peter Flegel has an interesting article in Philosophy Now looking at possible connections between ancient Greek philosophy and conceptions explored in the Egyptian New Kingdom period. Ideas like the four elements and the theory of forms seem to have pretty … Continue reading
Posted in Zeitgeist
Tagged Ancient Egypt, Ancient Greece, Ancient History, History, Philosophy
20 Comments
Neanderthals and the beginnings of us
The Smithsonian has an interesting article up on what we currently know about Neanderthals. The article details some of the internecine battles that always seems to be a part of the paleoanthropology field, in this case focusing on the capabilities … Continue reading
Posted in Science
Tagged Anthropology, Archaeology, History, Human evolution, Neanderthal, Prehistory, Science
13 Comments
Big societies came before big gods
Some years ago I reviewed a book by Ara Norenzayan called Big Gods: How Religion Transformed Cooperation and Conflict. Norenzayan’s thesis was that it was a belief in big gods, specifically cosmic gods that cared about human morality, that enabled … Continue reading
Posted in Religion
Tagged Ancient History, Anthropology, big gods, History, Morality, Religion, Seshat database
35 Comments
Breakthroughs in imagination
When thinking about human history, it’s tempting to see some developments as inevitable. Some certainly were, but the sheer amount of time before some of them took place seem to make them remarkable. The human species, narrowly defined as Homo … Continue reading
America’s long path to universal voting rights
My memory of what I learned in early grade school about the history of American voting rights went something like this. Prior to 1776, we were ruled by the king of Great Britain. He was a tyrant who oppressed us … Continue reading
Lessons from the election of 1824 and Silvio Berlusconi
Understandably, a lot of people continue to be upset about the results of this election. One thing that keeps coming up in my feeds are people advocating for the electoral college to change that result. The idea is that if … Continue reading
Early access to exit poll data, universal suffrage, and other election ruminations
So, tomorrow is election day here in the US. If you’re a US citizen and you haven’t voted yet, now’s the time to make plans. As I noted in the last post, this is not the year to sit the … Continue reading
Posted in Zeitgeist
Tagged democracy, Donald Trump, election, Hillary Clinton, History, Politics, suffrage
9 Comments
Why the US two party system is so entrenched
The other day, I came across this Big Think explanation by historian Sean Wilentz on why the US always seems to gravitate to a two party system. Unfortunately, while I think Wilentz touches on the main points, his explanation doesn’t … Continue reading
Posted in History, Society
Tagged American history, History, political parties, Political Science, Politics
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