ReadySet Go: How A Simple Solar Power Pack Is Driving Wealth In The Developing World. The ReadySet power station.
Photo: Peter McCollough/Wired Last week, a peculiar little box called ReadySet blew up on Kickstarter. Designed to provide electricity in the field and off the grid, ReadySet is a portable power station that can be charged via solar panels and other clean energy sources. Best layman's explanation for Scientific Theory I have ever seen. Losing the Language of Happiness. If you haven’t read Daniel Everertt’s fabulous Don’t Sleep, There are Snakes about his work as a linguist in the Amazon—well, stop whatever you are doing, go directly to Amazon and enjoy.
After 30 years living with and studying the Piraha, a tribe living in the Amazonian basin, Everett has concluded that neither Chomsky’s argument—that language is innate to humans and there are universal laws of grammar—and Skinner’s argument—that language is completely learned and genetics account for nothing—are correct. Instead, Everett posits that language and culture are completely intertwined and you cannot study one without the other.
Furthermore, and this is where things get really interesting, Everett believes that grammar is significantly less important than culture-based meanings and constraints on talking” are the key. So what’s the big deal? Those 2000 bits are what we call conscious reality. NMNH - Virtual Tour. The Great Debate - What is Life? Why the Universe is Flat I The Great Courses.