June 23, 2009
A recent paper published in Science argues that our big brains aren’t what ultimately caused early human cultural development. In fact, it took maybe 100,000 years (give or take tens of thousands) for the human brain to find its mojo.
What was the secret?
Sure enough, when the critical population density was reached or there was a [...]
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June 22, 2009
In the last post I wrote that I’d like to see a high-profile, London-based innovation centre or initiative. Then I started thinking about how TechAlliance and the Stiller Centre (and what else am I missing?) sort of fit that bill — but not quite. Some elements are missing but I couldn’t quite figure out what.
Then [...]
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What is Good Writing?
July 2, 2009A funny thing happened in the course of my last post: I committed the same error I was complaining about: putting readability before rigor.
In an earlier version (this is where the problems began, perhaps: fussing over it too much) I had a lengthy excerpt from Seth Godin’s excellent post. In the process of making my post more readable [...]