Tag: evolution
Vibe Shift
"A vibe shift is the catchy but sort of too-cool term Monahan uses for a relatively simple idea: In the culture, sometimes things change, and a once-dominant social wavelength starts to feel dated. Monahan, who is 35, breaks down the three vibe shifts he has survived and observed: Hipster/Indie Music (ca. 2003–9), or peak Arcade Fire, Bloc … Continue reading Vibe Shift
A Billion Years, A Galaxy
"New research published in the American Astronomical Society has confirmed through the use of a computer simulation that aliens–or humans–could potentially colonize the galaxy, a feat within the capabilities of modern Earth technology. According to the new research, doing so would only take a civilization like ours a billion years to complete."-Liam Stewart, "New Research Suggests … Continue reading A Billion Years, A Galaxy
Seven Million Years of Human Evolution (in 6 mins.)
Natural Selection
"For Darwin, natural selection is a drawn-out, complex process involving multiple interconnected causes. Natural selection requires variation in a population of organisms. For the process to work, at least some of that variation must be heritable and passed on to organisms’ descendants in some way. That variation is acted upon by the struggle for existence, … Continue reading Natural Selection
The Meaning of Life — Don Hertzfeldt
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xMsyOowMaEY —Don Hertzfeldt's YouTube Channel
Life Doesn’t Evolve in a Tomb
Yesterday's clarity is today's stupidity.-Ikkyu Sojun Erikson's stages of psychosocial development provides a useful framework for thinking about individual evolution and the common pattern most human beings follow. It shows that as life progresses, we are dealing with the essential and different questions at different stages of life: What kind of world is it? Do … Continue reading Life Doesn’t Evolve in a Tomb
Cultural Good Ol’ Days
"I know people don’t read books like they used to, and they don’t think like they used to, but I struggle to care. Most of this talk is pure nostalgia, a kind of mostly knee-jerk, mostly uncritical (although not thoughtless) response to entirely rational fears about technological opacity and complexity (this nostalgia, of course, was … Continue reading Cultural Good Ol’ Days
Cambrian Explosion
"The hox genes are, more or less, the standard library for the structural assembly of animal bodies. It’s a DNA-modifying type of gene, one that activates specific other regions of DNA during early development. Need a leg? Activate the ‘leg’ hox gene, and that will start a huge cascade of related processes that make a … Continue reading Cambrian Explosion
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