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Jan. 23rd, 2012 01:00 amJoel Garreau and Jamais Cascio interviewed about the Prevail project
http://www.acceler8or.com/2011/12/will-joel-garreau-jamais-cascio-prevail-along-with-the-rest-of-us/
Interesting. I'm a fan of Cascio's writing in general, being as he deals with transhumanist and technophile culture from a rather more grounded perspective than I'm used to seeing. Joel Garreau -- what can I say, I liked the book he wrote in the 80's about regional cultures in North America, but he has yet to wow me on this topic, and the interview didn't fundamentally change that. Either way, I like the idea I'd some up as "putting the humanism back in transhumanism" -- that is, specifically, in acknowledging that it's not a one-way process by which technology changes humanity and society. We shape technology even as it shapes us; we shape it with our values and our social institutions, and we have rather more potential control over that side of the process, and should really start acting like it.
How to be more interesting
http://www.forbes.com/sites/jessicahagy/2011/11/30/how-to-be-interesting/
Why placebos work
http://lifehacker.com/5873548/why-placebos-work-and-how-you-can-use-the-placebo-effect-to-accomplish-your-goals
Words and Offense
http://genderbitch.wordpress.com/2011/04/02/words-offense/
Future Sex: Beyond Gay and Straight
http://www.pinknews.co.uk/2012/01/10/comment-future-sex-beyond-gay-and-straight/
Color and clothing
http://www.askandyaboutclothes.com/Clothes%20Articles/ColorSIMPLE.htm
Once-dying Chinook Language finds future voices in children
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2001950684_chinook08m.html
*beams* Old news, but it makes me happy.
A guide to Chinuk Wawa as it is spoken at Grand Ronde
http://www.multicsd.org/doku.php?id=confederated_tribes_of_grand_ronde
Sarus: A conlang based on tones or colors
http://www.biteycastle.com/525/02_simplePhrases.html
How to love yourself in 8 really hard steps
http://www.definatalie.com/2009/06/16/how-to-love-yourself-in-8-really-hard-steps/
Native, lesbian Minnesota legislator Susan Allen was elected recently to my home district. Squee-plug:
http://susanallen61b.com/
Worldbuilding 302: Psychology
http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2012/01/world-building-302-psychology.html
Hot spiced mead recipe
http://theredmangetout.blogspot.com/2010/01/hot-spiced-mead-winter-warmer-cocktail.html
Lost Darwin fossils recovered
http://planetearth.nerc.ac.uk/news/story.aspx?id=1136
Ee, fossil plants!
Disabled bodies and ablist acceptance
http://thesocietypages.org/socimages/2012/01/16/disabled-bodies-and-ableist-acceptance/
(Tangent, but those prosthetic feet actually have a really appealing effect.)
50 Raramuri (a Mexican indigenous people) said to have committed suicide to avoid the fate of starving to death
http://ontd-political.livejournal.com/9189111.html
The government of Chihuahua's response is especially galling here. See a few posts back about the emergency situation in the Atawipasket nation in Canada, too.
This is the size I come in
http://danceswithfat.wordpress.com/2012/01/13/this-is-the-size-i-come-in/
Clarifying the use of the term kathoey
http://pansexualparty.tumblr.com/post/15771234505/torayot-irrhythmic-pansexualparty
Paleolithic (#Diet and Nutrition subheading) article on Wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paleolithic#Diet_and_nutrition
History of alcoholic beverages (pre-Columbian America)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_alcoholic_beverages#Pre-Columbian_America
Was interesting to learn about Maya mead. :)
http://www.acceler8or.com/2011/12/will-joel-garreau-jamais-cascio-prevail-along-with-the-rest-of-us/
Interesting. I'm a fan of Cascio's writing in general, being as he deals with transhumanist and technophile culture from a rather more grounded perspective than I'm used to seeing. Joel Garreau -- what can I say, I liked the book he wrote in the 80's about regional cultures in North America, but he has yet to wow me on this topic, and the interview didn't fundamentally change that. Either way, I like the idea I'd some up as "putting the humanism back in transhumanism" -- that is, specifically, in acknowledging that it's not a one-way process by which technology changes humanity and society. We shape technology even as it shapes us; we shape it with our values and our social institutions, and we have rather more potential control over that side of the process, and should really start acting like it.
How to be more interesting
http://www.forbes.com/sites/jessicahagy/2011/11/30/how-to-be-interesting/
Why placebos work
http://lifehacker.com/5873548/why-placebos-work-and-how-you-can-use-the-placebo-effect-to-accomplish-your-goals
Words and Offense
http://genderbitch.wordpress.com/2011/04/02/words-offense/
Future Sex: Beyond Gay and Straight
http://www.pinknews.co.uk/2012/01/10/comment-future-sex-beyond-gay-and-straight/
Color and clothing
http://www.askandyaboutclothes.com/Clothes%20Articles/ColorSIMPLE.htm
Once-dying Chinook Language finds future voices in children
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2001950684_chinook08m.html
*beams* Old news, but it makes me happy.
A guide to Chinuk Wawa as it is spoken at Grand Ronde
http://www.multicsd.org/doku.php?id=confederated_tribes_of_grand_ronde
Sarus: A conlang based on tones or colors
http://www.biteycastle.com/525/02_simplePhrases.html
How to love yourself in 8 really hard steps
http://www.definatalie.com/2009/06/16/how-to-love-yourself-in-8-really-hard-steps/
Native, lesbian Minnesota legislator Susan Allen was elected recently to my home district. Squee-plug:
http://susanallen61b.com/
Worldbuilding 302: Psychology
http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2012/01/world-building-302-psychology.html
Hot spiced mead recipe
http://theredmangetout.blogspot.com/2010/01/hot-spiced-mead-winter-warmer-cocktail.html
Lost Darwin fossils recovered
http://planetearth.nerc.ac.uk/news/story.aspx?id=1136
Ee, fossil plants!
Disabled bodies and ablist acceptance
http://thesocietypages.org/socimages/2012/01/16/disabled-bodies-and-ableist-acceptance/
(Tangent, but those prosthetic feet actually have a really appealing effect.)
50 Raramuri (a Mexican indigenous people) said to have committed suicide to avoid the fate of starving to death
http://ontd-political.livejournal.com/9189111.html
The government of Chihuahua's response is especially galling here. See a few posts back about the emergency situation in the Atawipasket nation in Canada, too.
This is the size I come in
http://danceswithfat.wordpress.com/2012/01/13/this-is-the-size-i-come-in/
Clarifying the use of the term kathoey
http://pansexualparty.tumblr.com/post/15771234505/torayot-irrhythmic-pansexualparty
Paleolithic (#Diet and Nutrition subheading) article on Wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paleolithic#Diet_and_nutrition
History of alcoholic beverages (pre-Columbian America)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_alcoholic_beverages#Pre-Columbian_America
Was interesting to learn about Maya mead. :)
