In 1958 the United States of America offered two mobile radioisotope laboratories to International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) as gifts. For USA, supplying IAEA with gifts was not only cost doing business in new nuclear international setting Cold War, but also indispensable maintaining authority and keeping upper hand within regulation energy. The transformation a technoscientific artefact into...

Abstract This article explores early modern practices of ‘comfort eating’, arguing that they represent a crucial dimension preventative healthcare. The argues ideas comfort eating were shaped not only by medical understandings the composition foods and their impact on body, particularly levels four humours, but also cultural social significance certain foods, along with when, where, whom eaten....

Sex differences in the correlation between number of offspring and number of mates likely drive much of the evolution of morphological and behavioral sexual differences. These correlations have traditionally been represented by slopes from regressions of number of offspring on number of mates (Bateman gradients). Typically the Bateman gradient is assumed to be large for males and zero for femal...

This study shows how Berlin (n = 35) and Delhi (n = 28) mothers scaffold a common and highly scripted social situation, namely gift giving, and enable cultural learning in 19month-olds. Using modeling and prompting to encourage appropriate responses, mothers took culture-specific directions during scaffolding that were in line with the broader cultural model as assessed by maternal socializatio...