They change shape and color, and squirt ink. But they also will return your gaze, "as if they're scrutinizing you."
aWhy do we make friends? Students of animal behaviour have pointed out that social attraction has an obvious adaptive function: it helps a species both to protect and to reproduce itself. Behaviourists have postulated an affiliation drive, similar to the more familiar drives of hunger, thirst or...
All of the internet works on something called HTTP Protocol. This protocol is designed to be stateless which means the server will treat every incoming request as a new request. By design, it does not remember who you are. In order to make complex applications we have to make sure that th...
Go Home, Gay Boy! Or, Why Do Singaporean Gay Men Prefer to "Go Home" and Not "Come Out"? 来自 Semantic Scholar 喜欢 0 阅读量: 3277 作者: Chris K. K. Tan PhD Candidate 摘要: Anglo-American ontologies posit that gay men should come out to match their outer selves with their inner ...
But it's an illusion to think that we need someone else to make us feel complete. We don't. When we let our contentment depend on external things,we have given our power away. As humans,we aren't islands.We need at least some form of social interaction to reproduce,and,in many ...
There is a very scientific answer: reflectors work only under very specific conditions. Those conditions happen to prevail in most of the nighttime driving we do, so we get the impression that reflectors work most or all of the time. But reflectors don't work at all if those conditions ...
Student: Well, our idea is to reproduce the conditions of an Elizabethan playhouse, make it as authentic as possible. And of course, they didn't have electric lights 500 years ago. So we thought if we had candles, a lot of candles actually... Manager: To light the stage? Student: Yea...
Female student: Well... I was wondering if I could try to reproduce an experiment that's...kind of the opposite of what was discussed in the textbook? Male professor: So, instead of how and why an animal might hide itself, you want to do something about why an animal might want to...
I mean, obviously we need a better way to manage environmental resources.FEMALE PROFESSOR: Well, what do you guys suggest? Carol?MALE STUDENT: Hmm … uh, maybe privatize the resource? A private owner would want to manage the resource efficiently … in a sustainable way.FEMALE PROFESSOR: OK,...
Why Econometricians Don’t Replicate (Although They Do Reproduce - Mirowski, Sklivas - 1991 () Citation Context ... archive avoids the obvious incentive problems of relying on the honor system (i.e. commitment to the scientific method). Researchers’ disincentives to supply data and code are ...