10.26.11
Posted in General at 12:03 pm by nemo
Darwinism was one of the factors in the destruction of the old left, although most of its remnant remains unaware of this. A new left needs a new ‘failsafe’ evolution perspective beyond Darwinism (and religious design ideologies) that can be robust, useful, and free from economic ideology. And not moored to reductionist scientism. The lesson of world history is one to provide just this. If we attempt to sample historical sequences with a frequency test, the result is a fuzzy success: the eonic effect. We can see that world history follows its own evolutionary logic, one that we can use to gain overall perspective, without letting it become another theory.
Time to face reality: science, what to say of social movements, are going to get ‘theories’ wrong, over and over. A failsafe approach like the eonic model (a periodization outline with dynamical/theoretical hints in the background) beyond theory can be one approach.
http://history-and-evolution.com/whee4th/intro1_1_1.htm
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Posted in General at 11:54 am by nemo
#Occupy Wall Street blog some videos
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Posted in General at 11:13 am by nemo
Alice Roberts: evolution denial is “getting worse”
Despite the odd dissenting voice, the anthropologist’s new series has a fresh angle on how we evolved
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Posted in General at 11:07 am by nemo
Royal Society journal archive made permanently free to access By ROYAL SOCIETY – WWW.ROYALSOCIETY.ORG
Added: Wednesday, 26 October 2011 at 7:25 AM
The Royal Society has today announced that its world-famous historical journal archive – which includes the first ever peer-reviewed scientific journal – has been made permanently free to access online.
http://richarddawkins.net/articles/643646-royal-society-journal-archive-made-permanently-free-to-access
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Posted in General at 11:02 am by nemo
Birthplace for Primitive Life On Earth? Researchers Identify Mud Volcanoes in Greenland as Niche for Early Life
ScienceDaily (Oct. 25, 2011) — The mud volcanoes at Isua, in south-west Greenland, have been identified as a possible birthplace for life on Earth by an international team headed by researchers from the Laboratoire de Géologie de Lyon: Terre, Planètes et Environnement (CNRS/Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1/ENS de Lyon). Almost four billion years ago, these volcanoes released chemical elements indispensable to the formation of the first biomolecules, under conditions favorable to life. It is the first time that such an environment, meeting all the requirements for the emergence of life, has been identified by scientists in 3.8 billion year- old formations.
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Posted in General at 11:01 am by nemo
Culture in Humans and Apes Has the Same Evolutionary RootsScienceDaily (Oct. 20, 2011) — Culture is not a trait that is unique to humans. By studying orangutan populations, a team of researchers headed by anthropologist Michael Krützen from the University of Zurich has demonstrated that great apes also have the ability to learn socially and pass them down through a great many generations. The researchers provide the first evidence that culture in humans and great apes has the same evolutionary roots, thus answering the contentious question as to whether variation in behavioral patterns in orangutans are culturally driven, or caused by genetic factors and environmental influences.
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Posted in General at 10:59 am by nemo
Evidence for the Existence of a Hypnotic State? Key May Be in the Glazed Staring Eyes, Researchers Suggest
ScienceDaily (Oct. 25, 2011) — A multidisciplinary group of researchers from Finland (University of Turku and Aalto University) and Sweden (University of Skövde) has found that the strange stare of patients under hypnosis may be a key that can eventually lead to a solution to a long debate about the existence of a hypnotic state.
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Posted in General at 10:57 am by nemo
Geothermal Mapping Report Confirms Vast Coast-To-Coast Clean Energy Source in U.S.
ScienceDaily (Oct. 25, 2011) — New research from SMU’s Geothermal Laboratory, funded by a grant from Google.org, documents significant geothermal resources across the United States capable of producing more than three million megawatts of green power — 10 times the installed capacity of coal power plants today.
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Posted in General at 10:54 am by nemo
‘Junk DNA’ Defines Differences Between Humans and ChimpsScienceDaily (Oct. 25, 2011) — For years, scientists believed the vast phenotypic differences between humans and chimpanzees would be easily explained — the two species must have significantly different genetic makeups. However, when their genomes were later sequenced, researchers were surprised to learn that the DNA sequences of human and chimpanzee genes are nearly identical. What then is responsible for the many morphological and behavioral differences between the two species?
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Posted in General at 10:52 am by nemo
Published on Wednesday, October 26, 2011 by CNBC
NY Fed’s $40 Billion Iraqi Money Trail
by Eamon Javers
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2011/10/26-0
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Posted in General at 10:50 am by nemo
Published on Wednesday, October 26, 2011 by In These Times
by Allison Kilkenny
Incredible footage emerged from downtown Oakland last night – not of basic law enforcement efforts to maintain public “health and safety” as the police have been claiming – but of a war zone in which police shot tear gas, bean bags, wooden dowels, flash grenades, and rubber bullets at protesters.
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2011/10/26-1
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Posted in you've got mail at 10:32 am by nemo
FAIR: NPR vs. Free Speech: Opera Show Dropped by NPR to Punish Host’s Political Activism
http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2011/10/25-8
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Posted in you've got mail at 10:31 am by nemo
Randall Amster: Mic Check: Can You Hear Us, America?
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/10/25-6
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Posted in you've got mail at 10:31 am by nemo
Daphne Wysham: Measuring Progress: A Better Alternative to the GNP
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/10/25-4
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Posted in you've got mail at 10:30 am by nemo
Linda McQuaig: How to Make Inequality Obsolete
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/10/25-2
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Posted in you've got mail at 10:29 am by nemo
Stan Karp: Challenging Corporate School Reform and 10 Hopeful Signs of Resistance
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/10/25-1
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Posted in you've got mail at 10:09 am by nemo
Anne Landman: “Horror Hotel”: The New Frontier of Junk Food Marketing to Kids
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/10/25-0
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Posted in you've got mail at 10:08 am by nemo
From Tahrir to Wall Street: Egyptian Revolutionary Asmaa Mahfouz Speaks at Occupy Wall Street
http://www.commondreams.org/video/2011/10/25
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Posted in you've got mail at 10:07 am by nemo
#RobinHood Global March – Gear Up!
http://www.commondreams.org/video/2011/10/25-1
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Posted in you've got mail at 10:07 am by nemo
#OWS: Not Just a Protest, But a Little Utopia
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2011/10/25-0
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Posted in you've got mail at 10:06 am by nemo
Early Morning Police Raid Ousts Occupy Oakland
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2011/10/25-4
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Posted in you've got mail at 10:05 am by nemo
New Senior Adviser for Obama Campaign Lobbied for Keystone Pipeline, Comcast Merger
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2011/10/25-5
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Posted in you've got mail at 10:04 am by nemo
Study: It’s True, Bankers Really Do Control the World
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2011/10/25-2
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Posted in you've got mail at 10:03 am by nemo
US-Backed Libyan Rebels Leave Massacre in Their Wake
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2011/10/25-3
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Posted in General at 10:03 am by nemo
Matt Taibbi: OWS’s Beef: Wall Street Isn’t Winning – It’s Cheating
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2011/10/25-6
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10.25.11
Posted in General at 11:10 am by nemo
Econostream != Eonic Sequence
At a time of massive protest against economic depradations and exploitative markets (and their ideologies), the need for a clear insight into economic systems is lacking. Theorists of markets have marshalled an immense spectrum of pseud0-science to make the claims for capitalist inevitability seem scientific. That’s not surprising. But in a subtle way the theory of Marx is a subtle enabler, because it makes the economic determination of history into another such theory, with no real insight into the escape from such a ‘deterministic’ closure.
But the real answer is simple, and shown by the eonic effect, where the historical stream is distinct from its economic histories. Economic systems are man made, in a sense, and generate from there the illusion of inevitability. But they can be switched off by those who created them, and if they exploit people, they should be so challenged.
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