Rites, Wrongs, and Gold in Model Testing

Navigation in human crowds; testing the many-wrongs principle

* Correspondence: J. J. Faria, Institute of Integrati University of Leeds, Leeds LS2 9JT, U.K. E-mail address: [email protected] (J.J. Faria). 1 E. A. Codling is at the Department of Mathematical Colchester CO4 35Q, U.K. 2 F. Trillmich is at the Department of Animal Beha PO Box 10 01 31, D-337501 Bielefeld, Germany. 3 J. Krause is now at the Leibniz Institute of Fre Fisheries, Department of Bi...

Animal Wrongs

Minor rights and wrongs.

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Citizen’s Income: Rights and Wrongs

A Citizen’s Income, or a Basic Income, is not a new idea but it has been receiving increasing attention. There is confusion about the idea and an attempt is made to distinguish different concepts. Then a full Citizen’s Income is examined in relation to four key criteria: the justice of an unconditional benefit; the possibility and fairness of a simple individual benefit; economic efficiency; an...

The rites of spring

Every spring I get depressed. Last month I had the stunning realization that graduate student recruitment is a major cause of my spring depression. Each year, as the days lengthen, graduate programs engage in their ritualistic seduction of prospective students. In the past 15 years, US institutions, including the most elite and respected, have evolved mating displays worthy of birds and fish. T...