Social Sciences

Social science is the branch of science devoted to the study of societies, and the relationships among individuals within those societies.

Man, humans do a lot.

Sociology
Philosophy
Politics
Psychology
Communication
Spirituality
Folklore
History

"Men are like rivers: 
 the water is the same in one and all;
 but every river is 
 narrow here, more rapid there, here slower, there broader, 
 now clear, now dull, now cold, now warm. 

 It is the same with men.
 Every man bears in himself the germs of every human quality;
 but sometimes one quality manifests itself, sometimes another, 
 and the man often becomes unlike himself, 
 while still remaining the same man." 

    - Leo Tolstoy

Links

Pew Research Center
Real Life Mag - "Was a magazine about living with technology. The emphasis was more on living."
Adinkra (alternate/Wikipedia) - Symbols from Ghana to represent various concepts and aphorisms.
Glossographia - A blog dedicated to the interdisciplinary study of language from a social scientific perspective.
CIA: The World Factbook - :)
Turkish Cultural Foundation
Don't Call The Police
Haunted Timber - Blog with some good writings about transness, feminism, and various political topics.
Gothic Nature Journal - overlap with ecology

Articles

Wikipedia: List of cognitive biases
Wikipedia: God helmet - The apparatus, placed on the head of an experimental subject, generates very weak magnetic fields, that Persinger refers to as "complex". Like other neural stimulation with low-intensity magnetic fields, these fields are approximately as strong as those generated by a land line telephone handset or an ordinary hair dryer, but far weaker than that of an ordinary refrigerator magnet and approximately a million times weaker than transcranial magnetic stimulation.
Wikipedia: Thalaikoothal - traditional practice of senicide (killing of the elderly) or involuntary euthanasia, by their own family members, observed in some parts of southern districts of Tamil Nadu state of India.
Wikipedia: Man of the Hole - an Indigenous person, the last survivor of his people, who lived alone in the Amazon rainforest in the Brazilian state of Rondônia.
!The Point: American Idols: Death in the magnetic age - John Hinckley brought us into the world we all live in today. He did it by firing a .22 “Devastator” round into the chest of the president of the United States.
!The Atlantic: My Family's Slave
Climate Central: Tales of Ancient Sea Rise Told for 10,000 Years
Nine Lives: Language Is a Poor Heuristic for Intelligence - With the emergence of LLM “AI”, everyone will have to learn what many neurodivergent people have always understood about language.
Simon Sarris: In Praise of The Gods - "There is this tendency to think that you must understand everything, or that a thing must be proven, to enjoy it or derive serious meaning from it. This mistake is at the heart of the disembodied rationalist worldview." I've got my critisisms of this, which I'll hopefully turn into a page for this site at some point, but this is an interesting article you should read!
The New Atlantis: How Stewart Made Tucker

Lexicon

apostasy: abandonment of one's religious faith/political party/principles/cause
ättestupa: name supposedly denoting sites where elderly people threw themselves/were thrown to their deaths when unable to support themselves/assist in a household in pagan Norse prehistoric times.
body politic: a polity considered metaphorically as a physical body
exegesis: critical explanation or interpretation of a text
halcyon: a period of calm, usually in the past and often nostalgic
iconoclast: one who attacks/seeks to overthrow traditional/popular/sacred ideas/institutions/images
internalization: the integration of attitudes/values/standards/the opinions of others into one's own identity/sense of self
mono no aware (物の哀れ): an awareness/emapthy/sensitivity towards ephermera/things, heightens appreciation of their beauty, evokes gentle sadness at their passing
nachlophobia: fear that your deepest connections are ultimately somewhat shallow
neophyte: a recent convert to a belief
polity: group of people with collective identity, organized by some form of political/institutionalized/social relations, and have a capacity to mobilize resources
postmemory: a relationship that people of subsequent generations bear to the trauma of their forebears, which they cannot directly remember but rather know through stories, memory, and behavior
preference cascade: when a critical mass of people, around the same time, shift to expressing their shared truth
Usonian: an alternative to "American" when referring to a United States citizen

Art

Ludens

Below The Root by Dale Disharoon (C64)

Audio

Albums

!Notos by The Oh Hellos (Bandcamp)
!Eurus by The Oh Hellos (Bandcamp)
!Boreas by The Oh Hellos (Bandcamp)
!Zephyrus by The Oh Hellos (Bandcamp)
Another Day on Earth by Brian Eno