Tag: Society
Sarah Richardson – Exceptional and unconformable phenomena: Maternal effects and the epistemologies of the life sciences
https://youtu.be/AIyMr6mH11s This talk draws on the intellectual history of maternal effects science to pose the question: What forms of scientific practice and discourse result when life scientists encounter phenomena that persistently rebuff study, control, and optimization, and which demand a high tolerance for uncertainty? The science of maternal effects posits that in addition to transmitting … Continue reading Sarah Richardson – Exceptional and unconformable phenomena: Maternal effects and the epistemologies of the life sciences
Interview with Agustin Fuentes about primate cooperation and human origins
"the future of the study of human evolution is gonna be big team based projects" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=upRFk2b2vas
Turtles… dialectics all the way down
"Biology has traditionally defined individuals by the criteria of anatomy (organisms separated from the environment), physiology (organisms whose parts work toward a common end), development (organisms derived from a common precursor cell), genetics (autopoietic organisms whose cells contain the same genome), immunology (organisms that reject non-self), and evolution (that which is selected). Recent studies show … Continue reading Turtles… dialectics all the way down
Why do societies collapse? Jared Diamond
Why do societies fail? With lessons from the Norse of Iron Age Greenland, deforested Easter Island and present-day Montana, Jared Diamond talks about the signs that collapse is near, and how — if we see it in time — we can prevent it. https://www.ted.com/talks/jared_diamond_on_why_societies_collapse?language=en
Steven Rose on the complexity of genetics and its social relevance (in part)
Sorry about Dawkin's - somebody has to represent the outmoded and corrosive! https://youtu.be/gaUXNJxRDjw
Intensive and Topological Thinking
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0wW2l-nBIDg http://www.egs.edu/ (2011) Manuel Delanda, contemporary philosopher, discusses Gilles Deleuze, bodies without organs, nature, intensive difference, physics, complexity, systems thinking, and the two remaining reasoning styles, intensive and topological thinking.
Biology In An Age Of Technoscience
Biology In An Age Of Technoscience by Hilary and Steven Rose "For those of us seeking to extend social justice in the world we should be fighting for a different kind of science" argue Hilary and Steven Rose.
Science on Drugs
Science on Drugs David Nutt will reflect on his ten years’ experience on the government’s Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs until 2010, and present new analyses comparing the harms of drugs and alcohol using more sophisticated methodology. David Nutt is Edmond J Safra Professor of Neuropsychology at Imperial College London. He was chair … Continue reading Science on Drugs
Joey O'Gorman 