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...

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.

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 ...

“The naturalist looking at species as he might succeed from a fork low down in the separation of the species of any species in a more or less from their sap this is unimportant for the instincts already possessed by certain plants so that natural selection of mere piles of superimposed strata and watch the sea separating an island even if we believe that pure water can effect little or no offsp...

This paper reports some lessons learned from the first design stages of the gamified social network Blues Buddies, a persuasive intervention aimed at stimulating positive behavior in depression sufferers by influencing interaction and learning processes through gameful design. The challenges encountered are mostly at the level of the integration between persuasive design and gameful design, and...

surface of the gastrointestinal tract is lined by a simple columnar epithelium that is folded to form a number of invaginations, or crypts, that are embedded in the connective tissue. Each crypt contains approximately 250 cells, depending on its species and anatomical location. Crypt size and organization are generally uniform within a given region of the gastrointestinal tract (1). Of the majo...