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Seed (subtitled Science Is Culture; originally Beneath the Surface) is a defunct online science magazine published by Seed Media Group.The magazine looked at big ideas in science, important issues at the intersection of science and society, and the people driving global science culture.
During the 1990s, members of the entrepreneurial class in the information technology industry in Silicon Valley vocally promoted an ideology that combined the ideas of Marshall McLuhan with elements of radical individualism, libertarianism, and neoliberal economics, using publications like Wired magazine to promulgate their ideas.
The Institute for Cultural Research (ICR) was a London-based, UK-registered educational charity, [1] [2] [3] events organizer and publisher which aimed to stimulate study, debate, education and research into all aspects of human thought, behaviour and culture. [4]
Culturology or the science of culture is a branch of the social sciences concerned with the scientific understanding, description, analysis, and prediction of cultures as a whole. While ethnology and anthropology studied different cultural practices, such studies included diverse aspects : sociological , psychological , etc., and the need was ...
Folklore and Popular Culture: Ilhan Basgöz [tr; az] Indiana University: Comparative study of the romantic epics of the Turkic peoples [97] French History: Robert R. Palmer: Yale University: French education during the revolutionary era, 1760-1820 [4] [91] [134] Peter N. Stearns: Rutgers University: Attitudes and policies toward aging in France ...
Gill was born on 22 April 1963, [1] the daughter of Janet and Michael Gill, [2] whom she describes as left-wing and politically engaged parents. In an interview [3] she says she grew up to be "a young, politically active, left-wing person" with a particular interest in "how culture, and ideology gets inside us and shapes us."
A second was made by Colin Ronan, a writer on the history of science, who produced a five volume condensation The Shorter Science and Civilisation: An abridgement of Joseph Needham's original text, between 1980 and his death in 1995. [17] These volumes cover: China and Chinese science; Mathematics, astronomy, meteorology and the earth sciences
Memetics is a theory of the evolution of culture based on Darwinian principles with the meme as the unit of culture. The term "meme" was coined by biologist Richard Dawkins in his 1976 book The Selfish Gene, [1] to illustrate the principle that he later called "Universal Darwinism".