Joseph Henrich

1 month ago | sinicapodcast.com | Joseph Henrich |Richard Powers |Kaiser Kuo

This week on the Sinica Podcast, I chat with Jeremy Garlick, Director of the Jan Masaryk Centre for International Studies, Prague University, and a scholar of China’s international relations. Jeremy is the author of the book Advantage China: Agent of Change in an Era of Global Disruption, but the book we're talking about this week is his new Cambridge Element titled Evolution in International Relations.

Dec 19, 2024 | github.blog | Joseph Henrich

Home / Developer skills / Programming languages & frameworks We’re open sourcing Annotated Logger, a Python package that helps make logs searchable with consistent metadata.

May 4, 2024 | sharpenyouraxe.substack.com | Joseph Henrich |Steven Pinker |E. O. Wilson |Rupert Cocke

"E.O. Wilson 1" by afagen is licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 2.0.American entomologist E. O. Wilson drew rather hysterical criticism in the mid-1970s when he suggested that natural selection might have influenced human behaviour. He made the modest suggestion that social scientists should maybe include biologists in the conversation; and was smeared as a fascist and a racist as a result. Thanks for reading Sharpen Your Axe! Subscribe for free to receive new posts and support my work.

Apr 27, 2024 | sharpenyouraxe.substack.com | Joseph Henrich |Neal Stephenson |Rupert Cocke

"Ponte Vecchio" by Jo@net is licensed under CC BY 2.0.I have been a financial journalist for the best part of 30 years now. When I started in the game, way back in the mid-1990s, I was still in the process of moving from old-school socialism to the point where social democrats and liberals can find common ground. As a philosophy graduate and non-fiction geek, I plead guilty to over-thinking the role of financial journalism in society over the course of my career.

Apr 1, 2024 | journals.uchicago.edu | Ze Hong |Edward Slingerland |Joseph Henrich

Ritual protocols aimed at rainmaking have been a recurrent sociocultural phenomenon across societies and throughout history. Given the fact that such protocols were likely entirely ineffective, why did they repeatedly emerge and persist, sometimes over millennia, even in populations with writing and recordkeeping?