The Hidden Brain

I listened to an NPR interview with the author of The Hidden Brain and found the conclusion to be, well, incorrect. Vedantam fails to make any distinctions between levels of development and lumps everyone together. That little bit seems to have been cut out of the online excerpt.  Sure there may be some cultural differences, but those cultural factors are only part of the story and to pretend that is the difference is as silly as arguing that all behavior is the result of nature or nurture.

The reviews at Amazon are worth the read, the customer reviews in particular.

Developmentalism seems to be the hidden factor. It's why we need a new secret society, a reluminatti, if you will.
If you doubt the need for a progressive secret society, just look at the damage done by those on the right. Yes, much of the damage has been overt, but much has been secretted. It took some time before the Koch brothers were exposed, before ALEC was exposed and I'm waiting for Energy Tomarrow dot org to be exposed. Why does a front group for one of the most profitable industries ever, get nonprofit status?

Meanwhile we have Oils Endless Bid, The Tyranny of Oil and Robert Reich telling us what's really going on.

If the walls could talk, a history of homes looks like a fun book, one my father would like...there's an NPR interview with the author. NPR by the way has an increasing audience. That's some good news.

The author of A world of progress blogspot was on Local Edge radio so now I'm trying to find it, but I'm not sure where it is. This seems outdated and here's the link to the progressive girl.....she's from asheville....then there's this....and on a side note check out the obsolete world with the pretty art.

Good enough for now? It'll have to be