We need to look beyond our gut instincts to use information on "simple" intestinal physiological parameters as they have been presented to us in the past. Here we present a discussion on such parameters, old and new, and ask how much we really understand them. Behaviour of drugs and delivery systems in the intestine depends on many physiological factors including fluid volume, fluid composition...

In Robert Provine's review of Ha: The Science of When We Laugh and Why and The Humor Code: A Global Search for What Makes Things Funny, he leans on his own analysis of simple instincts such as laughing and yawning and his research for his own book, Laughter: A Scientific Investigation.

Dominic D. P. Johnson, Strategic Instincts: The Adaptive Advantages of Cognitive Biases in International Politics (Princeton, NJ, Princeton University Press, 2020). 395 pages. ISBN: 9780691137452. Hardcover $27.95. - Volume 40 Issue 2

There is no right or wrong way to visit a museum. The most important rule you should keep in mind as you go through the front door is to follow your own instincts. Be prepared to find what excite you, to enjoy what delights your heart and mind, perhaps to have aesthetic experiences you will never forget.

Background Research indicates that clinical recruiters often face conflict between their knowledge of clinical equipoise underpinning the RCT, and their instincts for/against eligible patients’ suitability for particular trial interventions. Little is known about whether or how equipoise is conveyed during recruitment practice. We investigated how equipoise was communicated by clinicians in rec...

PHIL BROWN, The transfer of care. Psychiatric deinstitutionalization and its afiermath, London, Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1985, 8vo, pp. xvi, 275, £19.95. This sociological overview of the impact ofdeinstitutionalization on America's mental health services is written from a perspective which is informed by debates within the history of psychiatry as well as medical sociology. In his description o...

How did cooperation emerge in large-scale, fluid societies? Standard theories based on direct and indirect reciprocity between self-regarding agents cannot explain the high level of impersonal exchange observed in developed market economies. Drawing upon recent research from across the behavioral sciences, we attribute the emergence of cooperation in early trade to an evolved characteristic of ...

Our aim in this chapter is to draw lessons from current theory on the evolution of human cooperation for the management of contemporary commons. Evolutionary theorists have long been interested in cooperation but social scientists have documented patterns of cooperation in humans that present unusual problems for conventional evolutionary theory (and for rational choice explanations as well). H...

Biotechnology, since the commencement of 1980, has become an integral feature of the public’s consciousness, hopes and fears. Issues such as novel diseases, genetically engineered foods, cloning, bioterrorism and biosafety impact and interact with the public’s feelings and instincts, which, in turn necessitate the comprehension and conveyance of the fundamentals of biotechnology in an easy and ...