Tag: modern civilization
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Societies… Cooperation… A lone man in the forest…
Researchers are exploring how cooperation arises in human societies, where people tend to cluster into various group types -- political, religious, familial, professional, etc. Within such groups, people can cooperate or 'defect' and receive payoffs based on those exchanges. Cooperation, they observed, is most favored when allowing for the existence of 'loners' -- people who…
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Komodo. Staying home.
Komodo dragons live on a handful of islands in Indonesia, but their reputation has spread far and wide. Reaching lengths of up to 10 feet, the razor-toothed monitor lizards hunt deer in packs and have even attacked humans on occasion. But actually, they are real homebodies, according to a study published Wednesday in Proceedings of…
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Spreading bad ideas.
How ideas move through academia may depend on where those ideas come from - whether from big-name universities or less prestigious institutions - as much as their quality, a recent study from the University of Colorado Boulder suggests. The new research borrows a page from epidemiology, exploring how ideas might flow from university to university,…
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Sacred mountain. Unholy science.
A mountain which used to be sacred, is for many years now a place for science. Following a protracted legal battle and years long protests that left a state deeply divided, the Hawaii Supreme Court in November 2018 cleared the final legal hurdle for a $1.4 billion telescope project to resume construction atop the Big…
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Inherited strength & Arrogance in religion, science and elsewhere.
Nowadays we often talk about the arrogance of people in various fields. Arrogant scientists do things simply because they can do them, without thinking about the consequences. Arrogant priests are almost celebrating that they quit the church and "moved on". Arrogant managers in companies behave unacceptably without any empathy for colleagues or customers. And the…
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