The Piltdown angel

The Angel wins

The angel-devil game is played on an infinite two-dimensional “chessboard” Z. The squares of the board are all white at the beginning. The players called angel and devil take turns in their steps. When it is the devil’s turn, he can turn a square black. The angel always stays on a white square, and when it is her turn she can fly at a distance of at most J steps (each of which can be horizontal...

Entrepreneur - Business Angel Relationships

This paper examines the logics and expectations of entrepreneurs and business angels prior to going into a relationship. Comparisons of the entrepreneurs and the business angels show difference regarding their confidence about their own mind-sets and expectations. The findings are discussed taking an institutional approach; an exogenous institutionalism is influencing the actor, as his logic an...

The Guardian Angel of CPR

Angel, Devil, and King

The McGurk Effect: Auditory Visual Speech Perception’s Piltdown Man

I draw an analogy of the McGurk effect to an episode in natural science. Piltdown Man was claimed to be the fossilized remains of a previously unknown early human. It took roughly 4 decades of controversy to conclusively learn that Piltdown Man was as a hoax because the natural scientists focused on the fossil of Piltdown Man rather than searching for other paleoanthropological evidence. I argu...