A few years old but a very neat piece from evolutionary #anthropologist Karen #Kramer. How do children learn best? Packed into same-age classrooms listening to an adult?
'...work among with the Pumé of Venezuela and the Maya living in the Yucatan Peninsula—resoundingly suggests that they learn from one another.'
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'IN THE CHILD-populous world of hunter-gatherers, little separates the spheres of adults and children. The places they work, play, relax, and sleep are not segregated. Privacy, alone time, and adult-only spaces are concepts unknown to the Pumé, for example. They live in open-walled structures that children freely run in and out of without requesting entry. Pumé children also aren’t restricted from what might be considered adult spaces and activities, such as menstrual huts (special structures where women in many traditional societies go for the few days a month when they menstruate), watching births, being around the dying, or participating in all-night social dances, called tohé, where the band joins together to sing, conduct healings, and tell stories.'
We are happy to announce that the program for the 60th anniversary meeting of the American Society for Cybernetics is online. We are looking forward to five days with eighty cybernetic conversations.
Finished #firewatch just now... I'm so melancholic right now. Loved the characters, the pace and the story. One of the #games I liked more, maybe just a little less than #toTheMoon.
Worth every single penny.
I could not begin to imagine a childhood without playing in the dirt and mud. How could anyone believe that a sterile environment is good? We've literally lived in dirt and mud, played in it, worked in it for thousands of years. When you get away from the concrete jungle millions of people still live in the dirt and many love it that way.
Uh-huh. Sterile food is not healthy. Milk pasteurization mandates is one example of government stupidity gone to seed. I drank fresh-squeezed milk for years right from the udder before even dropping it in the cooling bath, and I never once got ill from it. I have eaten unwashed vegetables and greens plucked straight from the ground a thousand times and I never once got ill from it. I spent most of my weekends playing in the dirt, camping in the dirt, digging, gardening, and never got sick from it. I haven't had a cold or flu in about 12 or 13 years, and again for many years before that. The last time I had the flu it was induced by severe stress, and I was the only person in the area that had it. It wasn't even flu season, and no one else caught it from me, because that's not how the flu works, despite the endless drug peddler propaganda on the matter. There was no one in the family or the neighborhood with it, just me.
One has to be careful because the medical apartheid bosses hate anything that questions their virology narrative about mother nature trying to kill us all every second. And they send their brainwashed trolls out to viciously attack dissent on the matter. Modern serology and virology are money-motivated circular reasoning. Scientists almost always agree with the person signing their paycheck. If you think it is easy to buy a politician, you haven't yet bought a scientist.
It's like they would try to say that germs alone cause infection, when it is infection that feeds germs. They put the cart before the horse. Or its like they might try to say that illness is caused by a pharmaceutical deficiency rather than a deficiency of fresh air, nutrients, exercise, dirt, mud, and sunlight.
There is also the matter of the magnetic field of the human body. The human magnetic field reaches out 4-5 feet from the body. It is affected by the magnetic field of other nearby humans and animals, which also have magnetic discharge from their metabolisms. But if everyone is standing further than five feet apart those interactions don't happen.
Think about how charged up people get standing like sardines at a music concert. Think about how charged up people get packed into a stadium. Everyone being in close proximity has a profound energetic effect on the body and the mind. Keeping everyone standing far apart has the opposite effect. Keeping people isolated from the soil also has a profound long-term effect. Some city slickers even become terrified of dirt as if it might kill them.
And that magnetic discharge from the body interacts with the dirt under our feet. It has been studied in ruminants like cows, and shown that they are able to interact with the earth's magnetic field to tell directions of the magnetic lines. We are wasting billions of dollars trying to hack RNA when we should be studying these kinds of things in deeper detail.
This fascinating and hopeful article shows the value of early years intervention on getting parents to read to, play with and talk to their children, whether newborn or already in school. #SouthAfrica#EarlyYears#Children#VirtuousHope#Reading#Play