Posts by BenWilson
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Capture: Someone, Somewhere, In Summertime, in reply to Lilith __,
Wow, stunning.
At least 2 real birds. And the third? Not sure.
Looks suspiciously like a crested penguin.
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Turns out I was there at the same time as Russell. I'm searching my footage like it's a "Where's Wally?" (rather than Blow Up). We know this because this panorama contains a bloke he tweeted about...stepping down the stairs on the right, the old guy? Yeah, well he was with the woman by the rubbish bins, with the waist length blonde hair and bikini. They were pashing out in the water at one point. I call Legend.
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Today, Pt Chev Beach.
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Capture: The Castle, in reply to Sofie Bribiesca,
Yeah, I'm a bit snap happy at the moment, although this next series evokes different mood.
Marcus decided he wanted to see the Museum. He was impressed by this room.
Particularly the Wilson Wall.
I, on the other hand, found the sentiment in the last shot the most hopeful, perhaps this century could be humanity's finest. It says "Let these panels never be filled", and I put a live 21st century human in there deliberately.
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Bogan Street Art, with self portrait
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From swamps they rose, to dwellings in the trees, from there, they touched the stars.
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Oldie, but a goodie.
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Hard News: Music: In before Christmas, in reply to Emma Hart,
Cheers, that's cool. Can't remember who..Jack Elder, maybe...on Twitter, perhaps, who said that Christmas for most of NZ is really more like the American Thanksgiving. Excellent way of looking at it.
And "drinking white wine in the sun" is such an antipodean thing to be sentimental about. Most of the rest of the world just thinks it's bizarre that Christmas to us is about BBQs, cricket, the beach, etc.
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Hard News: Cultures and violence, in reply to giovanni tiso,
One of the main proponents of "girls can't do math" is Steven Pinker, who is about as big a name in the field as they come.
3 out of 4 of my lecturers in math this year were girls. By which I mean middle-aged women, of course.*
*Temper that by saying 100% of my tutors were strange withdrawn boys. By which I mean boys.
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Hard News: Cultures and violence, in reply to Bart Janssen,
I've also noticed a disproportionate number of bell ends are male.
Brains are plastic
Zombies do not eat plastic. Their good taste extends that far.
Seriously. Brains, and thinking generally, are both well and poorly understood. Well, in the sense that the underlying mechanisms of the componentry have physical properties following known laws. Poorly in the sense that the emergent properties of putting together billions of them means potential interconnections may be unique in every single case. Indeed, you hardly need billions to get that effect.Well, in the sense that "laws of thinking", basic methodologies of thought, have been the subject of intense study for thousands of years, and the properties of these systems are well understood. Poorly in that we don't really seem to use any of them consistently, indeed, if we do actually follow any of the proposed systems, we're more likely to be labelled non-neurotypical than if we just randomly humanly do stuff.
Well in that it is entirely possible to form a completely coherent description of the way the human brain works, just like it is possible with the weather. Poorly in that we may have no more ability to detect when a human is going to go on a killing spree than we do of knowing when and where a tornado will strike.
We can, and should, (and will and are) continue our search for understanding of human mentality. But we needn't wait until we get that done to consider whether less people might die if less people have access to devices designed expressly for the purposes of ending human life.
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