Here’s an experience for you: sit back, close your eyes (but not really because then you won’t be able to read the post. Unless you ask that person sitting next to you to read the rest aloud for you), think of Italy-the delectable food, the canals of Venice, the Alps. Now you’re stretching your arms…
I want to talk about this phrase “objective logical reality” that was tossed around today. First this term “logical,” and that it’s not the same as “singular” (or perhaps “uniform”) in the sense that there can only be one correct order. So different arguments can reach the same conclusion, and the same rationale can lead…
I wanted to share a clip about beauty and perception that was part of a Dove campaign. It’s kind of cool just to watch without knowing too much about it beforehand, so I suggest doing that before reading the rest of my post. Boy does it speak volumes. Obviously there are several people involved and…
Came across this pretty recently. It kind of reminded me of when Jeff showed us examples of unintended forms of play within games. Yes, wii remotes were intended to be used how this guy is using them physically, but I don’t believe the creators intended them to be reprogrammed to interact with a software program…
I just remembered that I wanted to post the link to that book Among the Thugs I mentioned in the lecture about complex systems. It’s an interesting read of first-hand experience with crowds and violence and mob mentality kind of stuff. Plus, it’s all about hooligans, and who doesn’t love that cuddly bunch?
Awhile back I somehow got into a conversation with someone (I can’t remember who at this time) and he brought up a study he had read or heard about where an experiment was conducted on monkeys. I’m reiterating his reiteration of what the experiment was, so forgive me if it’s not accurate. Essentially monkeys were…
For a brief moment in class today, I toyed with the idea (in my head) of asking just what if there were a way of measuring language games so that one could arguably state that language game A is better than language game B, what could this measurement be? If we by some miracle could…
When we were thinking of examples of a pair of things that we normally don’t necessarily associate with each other that we could apply cultural logic to, as defined as -a broad pattern, set of practices, or set of rules that crosses many levels of a culture I thought of the comparison of the two…
Some research is finding that people of different continental origins have different DNA. The article does give examples of products/designs that are already operating under that assumption (the heart disease drug for African Americans). Concern about “support” for racism is mentioned (if people really are genetically different, then…) and talk of this research leading to…
A map of “Terrorism Events and Other Suspicious Activity”. One can click on the event icons and get details and links related to the incident. Note also at the bottom of the page that other maps coming soon are: Gang Activity Outbreaks/Bird Flu USA School Incidents I’d love to make a comment about this, but…
Interaction Culture 