link droppings

I can't translate thoughts right now. Here're a few reads that've interested me lately.

Bios & Logos (Mark Pesce)

For all of evolutionary time, information had to travel the slow route through biology - through the bios - before it would be coded into our DNA. Now we had this additional process - which we call the logos, the Word - which was a completely new thing, and not something that the bios had any time prepare for.

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Things may look as though they're going fast now, but this is nothing - literally, absolutely nothing - next to what's about to happen, because (and now we have precedent for it) we're about to see a technological acceleration on a similar order to the acceleration we saw when the logos separated from the bios. In this case, techne, our ability, is about to be freed from logos, our ability to describe it.

-- Mark Pesce, Bios & Logos

Sadhus, Holy Men of India (Dolf Hartsuiker)

The Evolution of Societal Intelligence... (Tom Atlee)

Wikipedia : Caloric restriction

To lengthen thy life, lessen thy meals.

-- Benjamin Franklin

The Masters of Memory Lane (Michelle Delio)

To do that, Hagwood, who gives seminars on how to improve memory skills, advises people to use their non-dominant hand in daily chores, do crosswords and puzzles, play chess, take a different route on your daily commute, learn to tango, play an instrument and speak another language.

-- Michelle Delio, The Masters of Memory Lane