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Alexander Kruel
Transhumanist, atheist, vegetarian who's interested in science fiction, science, philosophy, math, programming, language, consciousness, reality...
"The root of these misconceptions is the radical underappreciation of the design engineered by natural..." http://xixidu.tumblr.com/post...
Links for 2012-02-02 - http://kruel.co/2012...
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Photoset: Time Lapse Images of Earth at Night Taken From the International Space Station http://xixidu.tumblr.com/post...
Links for 2012-01-28 - http://kruel.co/2012...
DSC_0340 - http://www.flickr.com/photos...
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Most Amazing High Definition Image of Earth - Blue Marble 2012 - http://www.flickr.com/photos...
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Links for 2012-01-22 - http://kruel.co/2012...
Interview series on risks from AI http://wiki.lesswrong.com/wiki...
Links for 2012-01-21 - http://kruel.co/2012...
How shellfish saved the human race - http://www.boingboing.net/2009...
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"Turns out, somewhere between 130,000 to 190,000 years ago, the human species was reduced to less than 1000 breeding individuals--just a few thousand people in total. Ancient, naturally driven climate change pushed our species to the brink, said Curtis Marean, Ph.D., a professor with the Institute of Human Origins and the School of Human Evolution and Social Change at Arizona State University. What saved us? According to Marean, the answer may be "shellfish"."
- Alexander Kruel
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Wow, thank you, forefathers for risking eternal damnation to save the human race. That's taking a bullet for the team.
- Eivind
Elaine Morgan says we evolved from aquatic apes http://www.youtube.com/watch... P.S. Watching this soon. Curtis Marean lecture http://gustavus.edu/events... ps4-11 http://friendfeed.com/search... , pstp anthro sci
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The "Stoned Ape" hypothesis of human evolution McKenna hypothesized that as the North African jungles receded and gave way to savannas and grasslands near the end of the most recent ice age, a branch of our tree-dwelling primate ancestors left the forest canopy and began to live in the open areas outside of the forest. There they experimented with new varieties of foods as they adapted,...
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Inuit's risky mussel harvest under sea ice http://www.bbc.co.uk/news... , ( Clams are taken from walrus stomachs. http://www.enotes.com/food-en... ) , However, it prefers benthic bivalve mollusks, especially clams, for which it forages by grazing along the sea bottom, searching and identifying prey with its sensitive vibrissae and clearing the...
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- Thomas Page
Top 5 Reasons To Give Thanks For Being Primate http://www.npr.org/blogs...
- Thomas Page
Shellfish & the human bottleneck posted by Razib @ 12/16/2009 06:02:00 PM http://www.gnxp.com/blog...
- Thomas Page
Autumn in Oslo - http://www.flickr.com/photos...
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Littlewood Dragons - http://vimeo.com/34550155
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Reasoning under the assumption of infallibility - http://kruel.co/2012...
Links for 2012-01-02 - http://kruel.co/2012...
Arte TV - Tracks Spezial - Singularity Institute - http://vimeo.com/31730148
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Flying to somewhere - http://www.flickr.com/photos...
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Links for 2011-09-19 - http://kruel.co/2011...
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