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Tablet computers could help villagers in the Kalahari desert preserve cultural knowledge and traditional techniques for future generations... More on TABLETS: http://www.scoop.it/t/science-news?tag=tablets 
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The crayola-fication of the world: How we gave colors names, and it messed with our brains (part II)
American linguist Benjamin Whorf, suggested that our language determines how we perceive the world. Different cultures with independent histories often end up with the same colors in their vocabulary. Of course, the word that they use for red might be quite different – red, rouge, laal, whatever. Yet the concept of redness, that vivid region of the visual spectrum that we associate with fire, strawberries, blood or ketchup, is something that most cultures share. Source: http://goo.gl/y4Ozx Part 1: http://goo.gl/3TghN Articles about COLOR: http://www.scoop.it/t/science-news?tag=color Via Andrea Graziano
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Modern humans have created many thousands of distinct cultures. So what will it mean if globalization turns us into one giant, homogenous world culture?
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Artist Jonathan Harris describes four trends that are reshaping culture in the digital age: Compression, Disposability, Curation, and Self-Promotion, and takes steps to counteract them.
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Did Neanderthals sing? Is there a “music gene”? Two scientists debate whether our capacity to make and enjoy songs comes from biological evolution or from the advent of civilization.
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Our ability to map numbers onto a physical space – such as along a line – must be learned... Articles about NUMBERS: http://www.scoop.it/t/science-news?tag=numbers
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The order in which colors are named worldwide appears to be due to how eyes work, suggest computer simulations with virtual people.
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Business gurus Francis Frei and Anne Morriss discuss the importance of company culture and design, using Southwest Airlines as a case study.
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Our results draw attention to the possibility that play might serve a critical function in the transmission of human culture by providing a mechanism for arbitrary ideas to spread between children.
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In the article, recently published in the February issue of Current Anthropology, Frachetti argues that early pastoral nomads grew distinct economies across the steppes and mountains of Eurasia and triggered the formation of some the earliest and most extensive networks of interaction in prehistory. The model for this unique form of interaction, which Frachetti calls "nonuniform" institutional complexity, describes how discrete institutions among small-scale societies significantly impact the evolution of wider-scale political economies and shape the growth of great empires or states. Around
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The human being is compounded of a congeries of genes. These genes are responsible for the man to greatly appreciate his own well being, and greatly suffer with his own pain. They are also responsi...
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"The adjacent possible is a kind of shadow future, hovering on the edges of the present state of things, a map of all the ways in which the present can reinvent itself." - Steven Johnson
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In March, Haidt will publish The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion (Pantheon). By laying out the science of morality—how it binds people into "groupish righteousness" and blinds them to their own biases—he hopes to drain some vitriol from public debate and enable conversations across ideological divides.
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May 5, 2014 9:30 PM
The legalizing of gay marriage is a big issue that is still giving many issues to many of the states of the US. Some of the states have easily agreed to allow gay marriage while others are refusing to let that happen because it goes against everything they believe or have been taught. Mixing religion with politics is not a good thing because it leads to lawsuits that no one has the time or the money to spend on.
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So Twitter doesn’t only have the widely recognized usefulness of providing updates on news and revolution, and illuminating links, and many laughs and smirks. It has also brought about a surprising revival of the epigrammatic impulse in a literary culture that otherwise values the merely personal and the super-colloquial as badges of authenticity. “Write as short as you can/ In order/ Of what matters,” John Berryman counseled in a pre-tweet of 44 characters. Favorite that, followers. More on TWITTER: http://www.scoop.it/t/science-news?tag=twitter
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What kind of profile picture do you have on Facebook? Is it a close-up shot of your lovely face with little background visible? Or is it zoomed out, so that you appear against a wider context? The answer, according to a new study by psychologists in the USA, likely depends in part on your cultural ancestry. FACEBOOK: http://www.scoop.it/t/science-news?tag=facebook
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A new study published in Science by Carnegie Mellon University's Charles Kemp and the University of California at Berkeley's Terry Regier shows that kinship categories across languages reflect general principles of communication. The same principles can potentially be applied to other kinds of categories, such as colors and spatial relationships. Ultimately, then, the work may lead to a general theory of how different languages carve the world up into categories.
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Culture has long been proposed to be a distinguishing feature of the human species. However, an increasing amount of evidence from the field has shown that in several animals, differences in behaviors between populations actually reflect the presence of culture in these species. CHIMPANZEES: http://www.scoop.it/t/science-news?tag=chimps
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Americans love to celebrate an individual-minded U.S. culture that has produced great innovators such as Thomas Edison or Steve Jobs. Americans love to celebrate an individual-minded U.S. culture that has produced great innovators such as Thomas Edison or Steve Jobs. But recent research suggests the individual entrepreneur or scientist may not hold the only key to a country's innovation engine.
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A smile and a frown mean the same thing everywhere—or so say many anthropologists and evolutionary psychologists, who for more than a century have argued that all humans express basic emotions the same way. But a new study of people's perceptions of computer-generated faces suggests that facial expressions may not be universal and that our culture strongly shapes the way we read and express emotions. Articles about PSYCHOLOGY: http://www.scoop.it/t/science-news?tag=psychology
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What can surnames tell us about the culture, genetics and history of our society?
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Glossolalia or “speaking in tongues” is known primarily from charismatic Christian churches. In that setting it has been studied extensively with some remarkable findings. In Tower of Linguistic Babel, I examined one of those studies and noted some curious features of “tongues” or glossas
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Evolutionary biologist at the University of Reading Professor Mark Pagel argues that our cultural influences are more important to our success as a species than our genes in his new book published this week.
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Anthroplogy | Hispanics | Many of our categories are human constructions which map upon patterns in nature which we perceive rather darkly.
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Recently I came across a reference to memetics, which I've heard of and frankly dismissed as a conflation of the biological and cultural, similar to UG, in a way that ignores the cognitive processe... Articles about NEUROSCIENCE: http://www.scoop.it/t/science-news?page=7&tag=neuroscience
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Cultural differences between the West and East are well documented, but a study shows that concrete differences also exist in how British and Chinese people recognise people and the world around them.
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