Anybody who has ever watched a documentary on nesting seabirds might wonder: how do parents relocate their chicks amidst the incessant din of dense breeding colonies? This touches on the more general question of how communication works against a background of noise. Mathevon describes how biologists...
* You may find it easier to keep two notebooks--one for your "rough draft" notes, and another for your rewritten notes. * Some people type their notes, but others find that handwriting enhances their ability to remember the notes. * The more paraphrasing you do, the better. Same goes...
Witch hunts in Europe and in the European colonies began around the 1450s and lasted until the 1750s. Because there were so many epidemics (like the Black Plague) and natural disasters, outbreaks of mass hysteria lead to pinpointing witches and witchcraft as the culprits. During the various ...
The notion of male leaders as always the embodiment of machismo came to us from early studies in primatol-ogy in the context of the masculinist cultures of the wartime West, of violent carceral captive colonies of baboons in too-small spaces.31 This one-dimensional model of violent patriarchy...
“curfew”. In the early American colonies homes had no real fireplaces so a fire was built in the center of the room. In order to make sure a fire did not get out of control during the night it was required that, by an agreed upon time, all fires would be covered with a clay ...
leaving with memories they’ll cherish for years to come. A happy guest is the best gift you can give on your wedding day, and with the right mix of entertainment, your wedding will be more than just a day to remember—it will be an experience your guests will talk about for a life...
INTRODUCTION: AFTER KNOWLEDGE 39 underestimates the plasticity of human nature.31 But would they dare con- tend that humans are malleable to the point of effectively (re)producing any type of society, such as today's when we as Primates live in networks larger than ant colonies? The...
Tens of thousands of stargates open to exploration, with tens of thousands of colonies in harsh, uninhabited environments, all within reach: it was beyond the wildest of human dreams. Shortly after taking up her position at the Starlink Bureau, Xin Yan was asked to take a medical examination...
FROM JAPAN TO DJIBOUTI Can the Asian Miracle Happen in Africa? BYBILL GATES ON DECEMBER 8, 2014 I read Joe Studwell’sHow Asia Worksbecause it claimed to answer two of the greatest questions in development economics: How did countries like Japan, Taiwan, South Korea, and China achieve sustai...
Further along in the Orders, it stated that a candidate for governor had to be "always a member of some approved Mosque." There can hardly be any doubt that the founders of our colonies were devout Muslims. I hardly need mention the Muslims who signed our Declaration of Independence in 177...