First and foremost, James Evans and his colleagues are my greatest role models at the moment, and I can’t think of a better research plan than to follow in their footsteps. This blog post is thus merely friendly chatter about their recent Science essay, but, me being a scientist, it just comes across as a […]
Category: Social science
The eureka fallacy of optimization
When we learn things by studying or doing research, we perceive understanding as coming to us in step-like a-ha moments. I will argue that these moments happen more likely when we recognize (or map our observations to) specific patterns of explanation. The snag is, of course, that reality doesn’t always follow human-preferred patterns, so they […]
Book & music parings. Vol. 1.
The premise is simple: just six fantastic science books and their spirit animals in the zoo of music. “1” because it feels like I forgot some obvious ones. Claude Lévi-Strauss – The Raw and the Cooked (1964)Vague Imaginaires – L’île D’or (2020) Mysterious, eclectic, French, neo-exotica vs. Scientific, eclectic, French structural anthropology. Lévi-Strauss is one of […]
Petter Holme 