Stephen Pinker's Genome
I’ve given up on the weekly “Pete’s Picks” post of links. There’s many other people that do it faster and better than me (Alexia, Damien, Joe, Stephen and others), so I’m only be creating a latent echo! What I’ve decided to share instead are examples of thoughts I really like. Innovative and novel ways of looking at something, or new ways of addressing old problems. “Thinking outside the box” for want of a better term. Because these will be long posts in general, I will try not be too frequent.
Where Sweatshops are a dream – What if our outrage over sweatshops is misguided?
Love doesn’t scale – On how communism fails to recreate the community effect on a large scale
What Robert Ingersoll wanted for Christmas – I’m a month late, and it’s 111 years old, but it’s timeless.
My Genome, My Self – Stephen Pinker disscusses the mapping of his genome, and the practical, psychological and philisophical implications of knowing your own blueprint.
Video: Queerer Than We Can Suppose: The Strangeness of Science. A TED Talk by Richard Dawkins