Science in culture: Monkey business

Monkey Business

Everyday work involves communicating, coordinating and collaborating with others. In many cases employees are situated in geographically distributed offices, and hence lack a general sense of their co-workers’ current activities and availability. At present, many companies invest money in communication systems that enable formal interactions, such as video conferencing. There are however few te...

Monkey business in the aquarium

tion of the object wavefunction in amplitude and phase from the measured data. However, before we can make a measurement of a quantum state we have to prepare that state. In the case of the caesium atom this job was done by the first object pulse. Can we prepare any desired state, that is, a target state? This is an issue that arises in many disciplines — ranging from physical chemistry, throug...

Business and Science

economic evaluation models. According to the authors, traditional approaches to assessing investment opportunities fall short in the pharmaceutical industry. At a time when the healthcare industry is placing increasing emphasis on licensing as a core strategy this book provides a firm understanding of the way in which products and businesses can be valued at all stages of their development, whi...

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Culture and Cognitive Science

The purpose of this paper is to review the way in which cultural contributions to human nature have been treated within the fi eld of cognitive science. I was initially motivated to write about this topic when invited to give a talk to a Cognitive Science department at a sister university in California a few years ago. My goal, on that occasion, was to convince my audience, none of whom were pr...