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THE THIRD CULTURE
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ART AND HUMAN REALITY
A Talk With Denis Dutton
Introduction By Steven Pinker
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Human life is lived in a middle position between our genetic determinants on the one hand and culture on the other. It's out of that that human freedom emerges. And artistic works, the plays of Shakespeare, the novels of Jane Austen, the works of Wagner and Beethoven, Rembrandt and Hokusai, are among the freest, most human acts ever accomplished. These creations are the ultimate expressions of freedom.
DENIS DUTTON, a philosopher, is founder and editor of the highly regarded Web publication, Arts & Letters Daily (www.aldaily.com). He teaches the philosophy of art at the University of Canterbury, New Zealand, writes widely on aesthetics. and is editor of the journal Philosophy and Literature, and the author of the recently published THE ART INSTINCT: BEAUTY, PLEASURE, AND HUMAN EVOLUTION
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SERPENTINE~EDGE EXPERIMENT MARATHON
Armand Leroi
The Song of Songs
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"Songs can survive hundreds of years of geographical and cultural separation."
In this EdgeVideo, evolutionary biologist Armand Leroi reports on his art/science conversation and collaboration with musician Brian Eno which began when the two sat next to each other an an Edge dinner in London. The dinner discussion began with evolution and music, proceeded to the evolution of music, and led to the following question: has anybody attempted to reconstruct the history of human song? People around the world sing in different ways. Is it possible to retrieve that history. Can we do for songs what we've done for genes, for language?
THE SONG OF SONGS
Armand Leroi
In this EdgeVideo, evolutionary biologist Armand Leroi reports on his art/science conversation and collaboration with musician Brian Eno which began when the two sat next to each other an an Edge dinner in London. The dinner discussion began with evolution and music, proceeded to the evolution of music, and led to the following question: has anybody attempted to reconstruct the history of human song? People around the world sing in different ways. Is it possible to retrieve that history. Can we do for songs what we've done for genes, for language?
ARMAND LEROI is a Reader in Evolutionary Developmental Biology at Imperial College, London. He is the author of MUTANTS: ON GENETIC VARIETY AND THE HUMAN BODY, winner of The Guardian First Book Award, 2004.
This is the first in a series of Edge Videos of "table-top experiments" presented as part of the 2007 Edge/Serpentine collaboration during Serpentine Gallery Experiment Marathon in London, curated by Hans Ulrich Obrist under the leadership of Director Julia Peyton-Jones. Edge presenters were zoologist Seirian Sumner, archeologist Timothy Taylor, evolutionary biologist Armand Leroi, psychologist Simon Baron-Cohen, geneticist Steve Jones, physicist Neil Turok, embryologist Lewis Wolpert, and psychologist Steven Pinker and playwright Marcy Kahan. The live event was featured at the Serpentine as part of the Edge/Serpentine collaboration:"What Is Your Formula? Your Equation? Your Algorithm? Formulae For the 21st Century."
Writing in Sueddeutsche Zeitung ("Short Answers To Big Questions"), Feuilleton editor Andrian Kreye noted that: "The experiment is not only represents a collaboration by Brockman and Obrist's of their own work; it is also a continuation of a movement that began in the '60s on America's East Coast. John Cage brought together young artists and scientists for symposia and seminars to see what what would happen in the interaction of big thinkers from different fields. The resulting dialogue, which at the time seemed abstract and esoteric, can today be regarded as the forerunner to interdisciplinary science and the digital culture."
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THE REALITY CLUB
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Michael Shermer on Jerry Coyne's "Does The Empirical Nature Of Science Contradict The Revelatory Nature Of Faith?"
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IN THE NEWS
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NEWSWEEK
The Evolution of Art
By James Q. Wilson
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THE ECONOMIST
What's Cooking
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THE OBSERVER
Science Is Just One Gene Away From Defeating Religion
Colin Blakemore
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AMERICAN SCIENTIST
An Interview with Jerry Coyne
Greg Ross
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NEW SCIENTIST
Darwin Was Right
Daniel Dennett, Jerry Coyne, Richard Dawkins, and Paul Myers
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WALL STREET JOURNAL
How I learned Not To Fear The Anti-God Squad
By Maurice O'Sullivan
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THE NEW YORKER
The Background Hum
Ian McEwan and the science of suspense.
by Daniel Zalewski
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PROSPECT
Obama's Moral Majority
Jonathan Haidt
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NEW SCIENTIST
How Your Looks Betray Your Personality
by Roger Highfield, Richard Wiseman and Rob Jenkins
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THE AUSTRALIAN
The Masterly Blasphere
Ian McEwan
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NEWSWEEK
Who Says Stress Is Bad For You?
By Mary Carmichael
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THE COLBERT REPORT
STEVEN PINKER--February 11, 2009
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NATURE
Natural Selections 150 Years On
Mark Pagel
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NATURE
Darwin 200: Should scientists study race and IQ?
A Debate
NO: Steven Rose
YES: Stephen Ceci & Wendy M. Williams
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NATURE
Darwin 200: Human Nature: The Remix
Dan Jones
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CNBC
PREDICTING CRISIS: DR. DOOM & THE BLACK SWAN
Nouriel Roubini and Nassim Taleb
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TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT
DAWKINS ON DARWIN
Richard Dawkins
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THE COLBERT REPORT
DENIS DUTTON -- January 28, 2009
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BLOGGINHEADS.TV
SCIENCE SATUDAY: THE ARTISTIC ANIMAL
John Horgan & Denis Dutton
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BOOKS FROM EDGE
Now Available in Bookstores and Online...
WHAT HAVE YOU CHANGED YOUR MIND ABOUT (Harper Perennial)
Edited by John Brockman
With An Introduction By BRIAN ENO
http://www.amazon.com/What-Have-Changed-Your-About/dp/0061686549
"An intellectual treasure trove"
SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE
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