Month: March 2013

• The Evolution of Human Behavior?

  

  On why scientists should not make unsubstantiated claims in popular science works especially where human beings are concerned It is quite fashionable these days to try and explain human behavior as a result of evolution through natural selection. Just as a small example, I quote the following from an article by the renowned evolutionary psychologist […]

  rrameez

  March 25, 2013

  Abuse of Science, Modeling, Science Debates

  Darwin, Evolution, Evolution of Behavior, Evolution of Competition, Evolution of Cooperation, Kin Selection, Natural Selection, Reciprocal Altruism, Richard Dawkins, Robert Trivers, Steven Pinker, Storytelling, tit for tat, W.D. Hamilton

• Bombs, Sectarianism and Blasphemy: What’s Art Got To Do With It?

  March 4, 2013 Was coming back from an “Art Event” at the Karachi Arts council. I don’t go to such events but mom insisted (emotionally blackmailed to be precise), so I went. While coming back we started getting messages and calls on our cellphones that there had been two bomb blasts a few hundred meters […]

  rrameez

  March 11, 2013

  Modeling

  art, art under duress, blasphemy, Bombings, Habib Jalib, Krishna Chandra, orwell, Pablo Neruda, resistance art, Salman Khan, Sectarianism, shakespeare, Tolstoy, war and peace, What is art

• From Causality to the Supernatural: Babies know it all!

  

  Work in cognitive psychology has shown that young infants possess the concept of causality as an innate feature of their minds. In fact, it has been shown through recent experiments that this notion is so strong that infants can infer the existence of an unseen casual interaction and even an unseen causal agent from just the motion of […]

  rrameez

  March 1, 2013

  Science

  Causality, Cognitive Science, ghosts, God, infants, johnny depp, Marlon Brando, Myna, polytheism, spirits, Supernatural