I was born in South Africa, as were my parents and grandparents. We have descended from people who had been brought to Africa through indenture, a colonial labour system that introduced alien agricultural methods an workforce India, optimise monocultures like sugarcane. My very presence here is, therefore, entangled with colonialism’s domestication mastery over land, plant, (Indigenous indentur...

We intend to show that transient chaos is a very appealing, but still not widely appreciated, subfield of nonlinear dynamics. Besides flashing its basic properties and giving a brief overview of the many applications, a few recent transient-chaos-related subjects are introduced in some detail. These include the dynamics of decision making, dispersion, and sedimentation of volcanic ash, doubly t...

Emotion research historically has adopted a fairly homogeneous view of positive emotions. The aim of the current study was to explore how two positive emotions, amusement and joy, differ in subjective, behavioral, cardiovascular, and respiratory characteristics. Thirty-nine participants viewed two film clips, each selected to elicit amusement or joy. As predicted, participants reported more amu...