The Sociobiological Origins of Beauty
Sunday, March 6th, 2011
Great multidisciplinary talk by Dr. Denis Dutton on the possible evolutionary origins on culturally universal concepts of aesthetic beauty.
Archive for the ‘anthropology’ Category
The terminal occultation of Muammar Gaddafi
Wednesday, March 2nd, 2011
COL Pat Lang on Twitter
Wednesday, February 16th, 2011[ by Charles Cameron ]
Excellent news! COL Patrick Lang has now signed up on Twitter, so a quick and easy way to know when he’s posted at Sic Semper Tyrranis is to follow him @pat_lang. I hope he’ll post the occasional quick comment on — or pointer to — breaking news there, too.
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Okay, that’s the main message here — but there’s also an amusing aside to be made.
I tend to pride myself (I’m afraid that’s probably the right word) on my humility — so you can imagine how I felt when I discovered earlier today that Twitter was doing my humility for me:
That’s right: as a follower of COL Lang, I rate precisely zero.
Humility by twitter — is our technology getting wise to us at last?
Egypt: the conspiracies
Thursday, February 10th, 2011[ by Charles Cameron ] 
Zombies! Can’t live without them! Sources: Ursula Lindsey — Steve Benen
Egypt: Muslim and Christian human shields
Saturday, February 5th, 2011[ cross-posted from Brainstormers on the Web ]
