Interesting Links for 11-01-2016
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andrewducker- Would a progressive alliance actually work?
- Can Animals Think Abstractly?
- Why "Follow Your Passion" is frequently terrible advice
- In 2015, The Dark Forces Of The Internet Became A Counterculture
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- My friend Sonya makes awesome art. You should take a look.
- Researchers discover link between stress and unhealthy microbiomes
- Tiger fails to eat goat. Observers declare them best-friends.
- Supernormal Stimuli - how your reptile brain controls more than you'd like to think
- Archaeologists discover world's oldest tea buried with ancient Chinese emperor
- Chauvet cave paintings: A volcanic eruption from 36,000 years ago – as captured by prehistoric man
- I am almost at the 97th percentile of all Twitter users
- Of course, half my followers are probably bots...
- The best possible way to watch Jaws
- David Bowie dies at the age of 69 | Music | The Guardian
- The Amazing Inner Lives of Animals
- A Big Budget, Sci-fi Adaptation of the Card Game ‘Mafia’ Exists, Has a Trailer and Everything
- Looks to be the same game as what I've played as "Werewolf". Also, seriously, WTF?
- The “Other Side” Is Not Dumb
- Cracking the code - on gender parity in business
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Date: 2016-01-11 01:45 pm (UTC)That is absolutely fascinating. I never knew killer whales were so interesting. Might have to buy the book!
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Date: 2016-01-11 09:57 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2016-01-15 09:39 pm (UTC)Three or four chapters that can be summed up as "waaa, anthropologists are mean for saying that only humans can have culture", four actually about observations of whales / dolphins, and another three or four of "So, see, we are right, it is culture (maybe!)".
There were about a dozen specific things about various animals (not just whales and dolphins) that made me go "huh, interesting", of which about half were cherry picked into the review.
It may be written in a perfectly usual style for (their branch of) academic writing, but it was a bit of a slog.
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Date: 2016-01-16 10:07 am (UTC)