David Lancy
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On parenting and short-term memory loss.
Caring for young children wrecks havoc on your brain. I’ve heard it’s temporary. And, to make a better world, more men need to do it.
Abdel Haleem, Abrahamic faiths, Anthropology of Childhood, attention span, banishment, banishment of Sita, Beverly Strassmann, childhood, Christian, Christianity, contract law, David Lancy, developing brains, Dogon, Dorothy Dinnerstein, Draupadi, Draupadi in the gambling hall, early development, Emily Wilson, emotional development, family, fatherhood, feminism, feminist, gambling, Garry Wills, gender equality, gender parity, gossip, inequality, Islam, Jewish, Judaism, Mahabharata, Mary Beard, memory, Mermaid and the Minotaur, misogyny, Muslim, parenting, patriarchy, Penelope, philosophy, polygamy, polygyny, preschool development, Quran, shirking responsibility, Sita, Telemachus, The Odyssey, value, what matters in life, What the Qur’an Meant, What the Quran Meant and Why It Matters, who should parent, Women and Power, women’s work
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On perception and learning.
We adults can’t fix the world until we learn from children that it’s okay to be wrong.
analytical philosophy, animal cognition, automated image analysis, Brendan Wenzel, Bring me a slab, childhood development, children’s books, chimpanzee learning, computer learning to find cats, computer science, data clustering, David Lancy, falsifiable theories, Google, human development, identification, language acquisition, learning, Liu Cixin, Ludwig Wittgenstein, mental filters, neural networks, New York Times, parenting, perception, personhood, Philosophical Investigations, principal component analysis, Quoc Le, science, scientific method, Slab!, Stanford, teaching, The Anthropology of Childhood, The Three-Body Problem, They All Saw a Cat, unsupervised learning, Upshot, what is a cat, what is red, Youtube cat videos
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On David Lancy’s The Anthropology of Childhood, and violence against women (again!), and proscriptive parenting advice.
The anthropology of what childhood looks like in different cultures does not, in fact, suggest that all children “turn out fine.”
aborting female fetuses, Amartya Sen, An Uncertain Glory, Andrew Solomon, Anthropology of Childhood, attachment parenting, autism, autism acceptance, Changelings, Chattel, Cherubs, child-rearing, childhood education, childhood nutrition, children, children all turn out fine, cultural relativism, cultural relativity, David Lancy, education spending, Far from the Tree, health spending, Hillary Clinton, India, infant mortality, It Takes a Village, Jean Dreze, medical ethics, medical spending on rare diseases, Michael Erand, misogyny, New York Times, New York Times recommendations, parenting, proscriptive parenting advice, sex-selection, spending on childhood education, stay-at-home father, The Only Baby Book You’ll Ever Need, Uncertain Glory
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On baby books.
Today is the first day of school in town (which seems so early! It’s still clearly summer outside), so I’m back to being primary daytime parent. Which means I’ll be doing a lot of reading. Which, okay, that in itself isn’t so different from how I spend my work time normally, but what I read…
Anthropology of Childhood, baby books, baby books with strong women, baby books with suicidal characters, Ben Hatke, best baby books, board books, David Lancy, depressing baby books, Everywhere Babies, Fuzzy Bee and Friends, Julia’s House for Lost Creatures, kid’s books with strong women, Marla Frazee, misnamed baby books, parenting, Susan Meyers, worm suicide
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