I assume that you are all familiar with Ernest Cline’s famous spoken word piece “Dance Monkey Dance.” If you are not, just click on this link and you will be. :) In this piece Cline asserts that we are nothing more than monkeys in denial who figured out language and other neat stuff. Before you …
July 29, 2010 – 8:06 pm
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By Semantic Overload
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Posted in economics, science, society, video
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Tagged bias, cognition, ernest cline, irrationality, laurie santos, monkey, TED
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My month long vacation back home in Bangalore began on the 10th of this month. It started with a visit to the Big Banyan Tree. It is a 400 year old Banyan Tree (that’s Strangler Fig, for you Yankees ;) ) that spans over 2 acres. It was quite a sight to see with aerial …