From 2006 onwards I have listened to most Royal Society of Arts (RSA) podcasts and attended events whenever I've been able to when working in London.
How Many Friends Does One Person Need? (18/02/10)
- Traditional animistic or shamanistic religions are experiential, with dancing, trancing and similar practices releasing endorphins. Perhaps the later overlay of a metaphysics in doctrinal religions was and is primarily for political expediency?
- Meta-cognition is the watcher
- Plasticity of brain allows us more scope for ideas and perhaps also for friends beyond the 15-50-150 concentric circle
- Labour is so-called because bipedal mammals that we have become, women's pelvises are smaller and rounder than optimal for giving birth - especially now that our brains and therefore heads are so much larger. W
Whoops (04/02/10)
Whole Earth Discipline
Whole Earth Catalog author Stewart Brand explained that in some key areas his ideas have changed radically since the 1960s:
- Genetic modification
- Nuclear power - he now argues that its time has come