INFINITE STUPIDITY

¿Cuanta Estupidez! Cómo puede meterse con Internet? Después de haberse trabajado tanto para conseguir la sociedad del conocimiento (instantaneo y universal) y ahora, van y se ponen a rajar!!! :)))

¿EN VEZ DE METERSE CON SU PROPIO CIBERANAL FABE TISMO!!! OH mY gOD!

(OF COURSE IF FACEBOOK DON'T REACH THE CLASSROOMS, MAY DERIVATE AS HERE THEY SAY, BUT ANYWAY, WHAT ORTODOX SCIENTISTS AND WRITERS CANNOT DIGEST IS THE TOTAL ABOLITION OF THE aaaaaaaaaaaaaUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUttttttttttHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHooooooooooRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR

that internet makes, all we are authors, not more privileges for certain "intelectuals" !!!

Edge.org - December 15, 2011 http://www.edge.org  --------------------------------------------------- THE THIRD CULTURE ---------------------------------------------------  "A tiny number of ideas can go a long way, as we've seen. And the Internet makes that more and more likely. What's happening is that we might, in fact, be at a time in our history where we're being domesticated by these great big societal things, such as Facebook and the Internet. We're being domesticated by them, because fewer and fewer and fewer of us have to be innovators to get by. And so, in the cold calculus of evolution by natural selection, at no greater time in history than ever before, copiers are probably doing better than innovators. Because innovation is extraordinarily hard. My worry is that we could be moving in that direction, towards becoming more and more sort of docile copiers."  INFINITE STUPIDITY A Talk With Mark Pagel  MARK D. PAGEL is a Fellow of the Royal Society and Professor of Evolutionary Biology; Head of the Evolution Laboratory at the University of Reading; Author Oxford Encyclopaedia of Evolution; co-author of The Comparative Method in Evolutionary Biology. His forthcoming book is Wired for Culture: Origins of the Human Social Mind.  [MARK PAGEL:] I'm an evolutionary biologist, and my work draws me to the big events that have shaped the history of the world. Some of these we agree upon, and others are right under our noses, and yet we take them for granted and we may not appreciate what a force they've been in our evolution. One of those is the human capacity for culture. It might easily be the most important event in the history of life.... [more]  Conversation Page Permalink: http://edge.org/conversation/infinite-stupidity-edge-conversation-with-mark-pagel  --------------------------------------------------- --------------------------------------------------- IN THE NEWS ---------------------------------------------------  BRAINPICKINGS December 12, 2011 The 11 Best Science Books of 2011 Including THE MAGIC OF REALITY by Richard Dawkins, THE BEST OF EDGE: CULTURE edited by John Brockman, FUTURE SCIENCE edited by Max Brockman. by Maria Popova  HARRETZ December 9, 2011 HAIL THE noble savage! by Noa Limone "According to Pinker, new studies that quantify the increase and decrease in violence over the course of history lead to the conclusion that it is in constant decline...as he wrote in an article titled A History of Violence"  SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN December 8, 2011 by Samuel McNerney Jonathan Haidt and the Moral Matrix "Breaking Out of Our Righteous Minds...The work of the French sociologist Emile Durkheim was also vital. In contrast to John Stuart Mill, a Durkheimian society, as Haidt explains in an essay for edge.org...."   --------------------------------------------------- --------------------------------------------------- NEW BOOKS FROM EDGE ---------------------------------------------------  THIS WILL MAKE YOU SMARTER (Harper Perennial, Forthcoming, January 2012) Edited by John Brockman "A winning combination of good writers, good science and serious broader concerns." - Starred KIRKUS REVIEW  THE BEST OF EDGE: THE MIND (Harper Perennial) Edited by John Brockman "Edge.org has become an epicenter of bleeding-edge insight across science, technology and beyond, hosting conversations with some of our era's greatest thinkers. ... THE MIND reads like a who's who across psychology, evolutionary biology, social science, technology, and more. ... (A) treasure chest - a coffer of cutting-edge contemporary thought, THE MIND contains the building blocks of tomorrow's history book--whatever medium they may come in--and invites a provocative peer forward as we gaze back at some of the most defining ideas of our time." -THE ATLANTIC http://goo.gl/n4HQH  THE BEST OF EDGE: CULTURE (Harper Perennial) Edited by John Brockman "15 years' worth of the most provocative thinking on major facets of science, culture, and intellectual life. On its trails comes CULTURE: LEADING SCIENTISTS EXPLORE SOCETIES, ART, POWER, AND TECHNOLOGY - a treasure chest of insight true to the promise of its title. ... the 17 pieces exude the kind of intellectual inquiry and cultural curiosity that give progress its wings. (A) lavish cerebral feast ... one of this year's most significant time-capsules of contemporary thought." -THE ATLANTIC http://goo.gl/hNoEC  FUTURE SCIENCE (Vintage Books) Edited by Max Brockman "A fascinating and very readable summary of the latest thinking on human behaviour." -- THE ECONOMIST http://goo.gl/JJatv  --------------------------------------------------- --------------------------------------------------- Edge Foundation, Inc. is a nonprofit private operating foundation under Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code.