Saturday, October 26, 2013

Michael Tomasello, The Origins of Human Communication (2008)

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Every work morning I board the subway to travel to my office, and approximately halfway on this journey I change trains.  Changing trains en...
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Wednesday, September 25, 2013

Luigi Luca Cavalli-Sforza, Genes, Peoples and Languages (2001)

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Information is typically packaged.  The smallest unit of information (something like a bit ) (see August 23, 2009 and August 17, 2009 posts...
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Tuesday, September 10, 2013

Rodrigo Q. Quiroga, Borges and Memory (2012)

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Memory is a subject that is no stranger to this blog.  (See February 26, 2013 , December 2, 2011 , November 6, 2011 , September 20, 2011 , A...
Tuesday, August 27, 2013

Roberto Saviano, Beauty and The Inferno (2012)

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In All The Names , Jose Saramago tells the story of a civil servant in an unnamed city of an unnamed country charged with maintaining the b...
Monday, August 12, 2013

George Saunders, Tenth of December (2013)

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I rarely read a short story.  I respect that writing a good short story can be as challenging, if not more challenging in many respects as w...
Monday, July 15, 2013

Michael Gazzaniga, Who's In Charge? Free Will and the Science of the Brain (2011)

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What do we want to be free from?  That is the question that drives Michael Gazzaniga's inquiry about free will and the science of the b...
Sunday, May 19, 2013

Jaak Panksepp and Lucy Biven, The Archaeology of Mind, Neuroevolutionary Origins of Human Emotions (2012)

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At its most fundamental level, the neurosensory system of every animal, including humans, is a physiological system related to monitoring ou...