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Comment Re:Wait, what? (Score 1) 473

by Tatt00 on Tuesday August 12, 2008 @10:17PM (#24577867) Attached to: Cooking Stimulated Big Leap In Human Cognition

For a demonstration of 2 see Bill Hick's 'Revelations'

He was a fan of this guy..

(wiki) 'Perhaps the most famous of Terence McKenna's theories and observations is his explanation for the origin of modern human consciousness and culture. McKenna theorized that as the North African jungles receded, near the end of the most recent ice age, giving way to savannas and grasslands, a branch of our tree-dwelling primate ancestors left the forest canopy and began to live in the open areas outside of the forest. There they experimented with new varieties of foods as they adapted, physically and mentally, to their new environment.

Among the new food items found in this new environment were psilocybin-containing mushrooms'

Gates Issues Call For "Creative Capitalism" 464

Posted by Soulskill on Sunday August 03, 2008 @10:05AM from the evidently-foss-is-a-little-too-creative dept.

theodp writes "Bill Gates makes his case for Creative Capitalism in TIME, citing projects like a Text-Free UI for illiterate computing, the use of Multimouse technology to allow fifty kids to share one computer display, cell phone billing by the second, and Bono's RED campaign as examples of the type of corporate creativity that can make the world a better place for the billion or so people scraping by on less than a dollar a day. Michael Kinsley, a former Microsoft employee whose wife still advises the Gates Foundation, says it's hard to object to Gates' goals, but notes that creative capitalism does have its share of skeptics, and points out that there was not a whole lot of energy devoted to lifting up the world's poor during Bill's three decades at Microsoft."

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