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Christmas with the Armstrongs
Here is a lovely article (with recordings) featuring the very excellent Ricky Riccardi, author of the superb biography of Pops. ChristmasLouis Armstronglouis armstrong houseRicky Riccardi
A Christmas Message from Bertrand Russell
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Mardi Gras Indian Culture
Here’s an excellent article in The Economist by Jon Fasman. (H/T to Brett Martin for this). One can get a good sense of how just much work is involved in making these suits via the character played by Clarke Peters in Treme. Here he is talking about the role. Brett MartinClarke PetersDonald Harrisonjon fasmanMardi GrasMardi Gras Indiansnew orleansTreme
Hayek in Today’s Cognitive Neuroscience
My chum, the extraordinarily distinguished and generous neuroscientist Joaquín Fuster, has this excerpt from his essay: In bold characters I mark the concepts advanced by Hayek in his The Sensory Order. In parentheses, under each conclusion, the text passages are noted in which he makes reference to those concepts: 1. The cognitive code is a relational…
Christmas in New Orleans
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Alan Ryan’s On Politics: A History of Political Philosophy
Nice review in The Economist. I’ve always liked Ryan’s work especially his edited Social Explanation and Russell: A Political Life. It is also important that, as Mr Ryan puts it, “long-dead writers often speak to us with greater freshness and immediacy than our contemporaries.” James Madison has the best advice for Egyptian liberals who want to prevent Muhammad…
Oakeshott on Aesthetic Experience
Excerpts from Corey Abel’s essay on aesthetics Commentators agree that “The Voice of Poetry” is important but disagree on whether Oakeshott wrote a theory of aesthetics. Most think “The Voice of Poetry” establishes poetry’s distinction from practice, as it does, forcefully. But in his remarks on childhood, friendship, and love, Oakeshott seems to rejoin poetry…
The Swarm Lab
Swarm enthusiasts would do well to check out Simon Garnier’s new interdisciplinary initiative Swarm Lab run under the auspices of the Department of Biological Sciences at the New Jersey Institute of Technology. Collective intelligencecollective intentionalityComputational Sociologydistributed cognitiondistributed knowledgehuman stigmergyRobotSimon Garnierstigmergicstigmergic cognitionStigmergySwarm intelligenceSwarm robotics
Captain Beefheart/Don Van Vliet
I’m doing a non-hypnotic music to break up the catatonic state Remembering one of the great American one-offs who died on this day. Here is a documentary about Don and last but no means least two recordings that best show off his salty voice. Willie the Pimp Muffin Man Captain BeefheartFrank ZappaMagic BandTrout Mask ReplicaVan…
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