Mimicry and imitation can facilitate cultural learning, maintenance of culture, and group cohesion, and individuals must competently select the appropriate models and actions to imitate.
Someone told me once that science majors have a healthy appetite for destruction. Surely, but that's only because destruction always ensues curiosity. Cats beware.
A RESEARCH paper from American academics is threatening to blow a hole in growing political support for carbon capture and storage as a weapon against global warming.
EVER since the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's 2007 report on the impacts of climate change was discovered to contain a major error - that the Himalayan glaciers will be largely gone by 2035 - there has been a media feeding frenzy to find other mistakes.
In the past few weeks, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has received a vast amount of advice on how it should be reformed, ranging from minor structural tinkering to immediate self-immolation.
The scientist behind the bogus claim that Himalayan glaciers will have melted by 2035 admitted it was included purely to put political pressure on world leaders.
How did the researchers cope with all this unexpected data? How did they deal with so much failure? The scientists had discovered a new fact, but they called it a failure.
