Insight: Providence or Accident

[Murder or accident?].

Insight learning or shaping?

Bird and Emery (1) showed that rooks (Corvus frugilegus) can learn to manufacture and use tools to obtain food. They suggest that these behaviors emerge through insight and the authors touch upon a fundamental question in the study of animal intelligence: How can insight learning be separated from shaping? Insight learning was defined by Thorpe (2) as ''the sudden production of a new adaptive r...

Thailand Loburi Providence-thamkrabok Monastery

The primary objectives of my funded research were two fold in construct and dealt with systems of management on both an industrial and individual level. The first was to examine the environmental and socio-economic burdens of resource management in relation to copper ore extraction in Chile, the world’s largest copper producer. Secondly, I visited a unique detoxification program at the Thamkrab...

Providence, Freedom, and Human Destiny

Accident and emergency medicine or emergency medicine?