Children’s self-created rhymes often delineated in- and out-groups. Opie noted that antagonistic groups of children, like two schools or two football teams, generated cruel taunting rhymes that children would shout at each other. She pointed to an 1858 record of a children’s rhyme used against a particular village: “The Spittal wives are no’ very nice,/…
Stewart Brand Stewart Brand (@stewartbrand) is the president of The Long Now Foundation, established to foster long-term thinking and responsibility…
Links from the show to investigate: Cool Tools for Travel — Tim Ferriss and Kevin Kelly Revive & Restore Whole Earth Catalog Steve Jobs’s Stanford University Commencement Speech Whole Earth Discipline: An Ecopragmatist Manifesto by Stewart Brand The Clock Of The Long Now: Time and Responsibility by Stewart Brand How Buildings Learn: What Happens After They’re Built by…