Posts Tagged ‘human’

Super-social ape

  • Posted on 12/06/2011 by Nick

We are fundamentally about other people. Our minds get entangled with other people. As humans (or super social apes) our brain is wired to do this with mirror neurons, outsourcing cognitive code enabling social learning. Just like that scene in when Harry met Sally when Meg faked it in Katz’s deli and the the woman [...]

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What is ethnography?

  • Posted on 07/02/2011 by Nick

They say Ethnography – from Greek ethnos = people and grapho = to write. Ethnography aims to describe a people through writing. It is a scientific research strategy often used in the field of social sciences, particularly in Anthropology. We say Ethnography – to learn what it means to be human. To understand people’s needs [...]

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