emergent causality - for whatever reason, perhaps a pervasive simplicity bias,* we as humans like to think of causality in very basic terms: each event has one and only one cause. multi-causal explanations seem unsatisfying. we like to know who (or what) to ... open book meme - there are two new sites that i've started playing around with quite a bit lately: twitter and ning. for each of these sites, i've been actively trying to find other friends and edubloggers i know who are using them to add to my friends ... christianity today poll - christianity today wants you to finish the sentence in a poll: atheism is… a major threat to christianity; the only rational outlook; just another religion; mostly irrelevant today; other. let's break this down. ... Slippery and Sticky « Easily Distracted - It's summer, so I'm trying to make a dent in a big pile of books sitting by my desk. One of the first I've tackled is Chip Heath and Dan Heath, Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and Other Die. I found it an interesting and useful ... Keith Henson Talks about Memetics, Evolutionary Psychology ... - Meme commentary webzine from the MondoGlobo Network. Darwinizing Culture: The Status of Memetics As a Science | Potluck - The people at Potluck want to spend as much of their time as possible creating offerings like the one on this page and pursuing related endeavors, all with the hope of fostering positive change in the world. If you appreciate and would like to support our work, we would truly appreciate a contribution. She struggled to what? – eclecticism - Kottke seems to be resurrecting an old meme. I got curious how many other people had participated in the meme, and did a Google Search for one sentence in the post. However and this is what made all this funny to me Google also suggested that maybe that wasn't really what I wanted to search for. kickapps- social media applications - kickapps is not new to the web but it's new to me so i thought i would share it with you. kickapps is community building platform that is incredibly easy to use. i am getting ready to create a community for one of my sites and i think i ... Ink: An interview with designer Kym Buchanan at WRT: Writer ... - Published by Jeremy Douglass August 4th, 2005 in Features, Text Art. Earlier we posted on Ink: a multiplayer online writing game. Ink is being collaboratively developed by Kym Buchanan and David Sheridan with the support of the Michigan State University Writing Center and the Writing In Digital Environments (WIDE) Research Center. MEMETICS AND THE INTERNETS « Hellotruth - MEMETICS AND THE INTERNETS. Memetics. Making beautiful functional websites is the order of the day at HC, but it's easy to forget that the backbone of the web is more than just commercial. A massive community built on trends, forums, ... Engaging & Dispatching Memetics « Neuroanthropology - I've just finished his section on Memetics and the Anthropologists. He systematically dismantles meme theory from an anthropological point of view, just like Greg did in his post, We Hate Memes, Pass It On. (Greg's version is snarkier… ...