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Started by The Legendary Shark, 21 July, 2011, 11:05:57 PM

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Sideshow Bob

Quote from: JayzusB.Christ on 21 June, 2013, 09:11:28 AM
And you thought you were something special...

A very nice analogy, JayzusB.....
and a true statement of how little we matter in the 'grand scheme of things'....
Cheers
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I thought since we were making ourselves feel insignificant here, it would be appropriate to do it in comic form:

You may quote me on that.

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TordelBack

Ah Carl Sagan, proof if proof were needed that drugs aren't always bad, mmkay?  Very nice comics piece, I think I'd like to stick that on the wall at home for the betterment of the young.

And to balance it with the words of my undying man-crush: "That ball of shiny blue/ Houses everybody anybody ever knew".

Mikey

Quote from: O Lucky Stevie! on 21 June, 2013, 06:15:51 AM
Whoa mama! This is what God's version of What the Butler Saw must be like.

Amazing!

The concept of Deep Time is one of those things that sometimes strikes me very hard, in the face. It makes me dizzy if I think about it too much even on the geological timescale. The continents move apart at on average at roughly the rate human fingernails grow, just to add to Jayzis's analogy. And speaking of which my contribution to SIDFB is this:

Start saying a slow goodbye to the Atlantic

It's early days yet, but interesting stuff.

M.



To tell the truth, you can all get screwed.

Sideshow Bob

And proof, if it were ever needed, that comics as a 'visual' art form can evoke emotions that sometimes the written word alone can't.....

Great concert footage as well with the joint collaboration between Chris Hadfield and Ed Robertson...
http://uk.search.yahoo.com/r/_ylt=A0geu8WmPsRRsTcAaj5LBQx.;_ylu=X3oDMTE1Z3BiNTllBHNlYwNzcgRwb3MDMwRjb2xvA2FjMgR2dGlkA1NNRVVLMjhfODg-/SIG=1399o38su/EXP=1371844390/**http%3a//lybio.net/chris-hadfield-is-somebody-singing-featuring-ed-robertson/pop-music/

Just brilliant.....
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O Lucky Stevie!

"We'll send all these nasty words to Aunt Jane. Don't you think that would be fun?"

TordelBack

#579
Best summary article I've seen yet on the current state of the Denisovans

Particularly intrigued the tentative catalogue of differences in our respective genomes in terms of changes to a handful of proteins, including two (present in HSS, missing in Denisovans) that have been suggested as related to autism. While I fully accept that this is very shaky speculation on the part of the authors, I'm excited because I've long believed that autism is an essential part of what defines a modern human population: a vital feature, rather than a bug.

Richmond Clements

Just back from a talk by Richard Wiseman. Very funny, very entertaining.

ming

Old news, but I love stuff like this: photosynthesising sea slug


Oh, and I went to a talk by Lawrence Krauss a while back; my tiny mind is still recovering.


Frank

Quote from: TordelBack on 23 June, 2013, 06:57:07 PM
I'm excited because I've long believed that autism is an essential part of what defines a modern human population: a vital feature, rather than a bug.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b02yjf17


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#583
Quote from: sauchie on 25 June, 2013, 05:38:46 PM
Quote from: TordelBack on 23 June, 2013, 06:57:07 PM
I'm excited because I've long believed that autism is an essential part of what defines a modern human population: a vital feature, rather than a bug.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b02yjf17

Looks good, I'll line that up to accompany this evening's meaningless labour. In advance, I'll throw forward my theory that modern humans' uniquely complex social skill set finds an essential counterpoint and even counterweight in the focus and insight that are often present on the autistic spectrum.  Human groups that include and support a variety of modes of intelligence and approach must be more successful that those that include only gregarious generalists obsessed with the complex froth of social interactions, hence the autistic spectrum conveys an adaptive advantage on the level of populations, and hence evolution of modern HSS.  If I was to really fly a kite I'd suggest that it is when social groups of anatomically modern humans* embrace and support autistic members that the great cognitive leap forward of 45-35KYA takes place. 

*Which the Denisovan genome comparison may suggest is -uniquely- a human biology that permits autism.