Originally theorized as a radical environmental movement, bioregionalism connects humanity to the specificities of a place. To establish greater cohesion between environments and cultures, bioregionalism endeavors to integrate societal activities and the nuances of natural spaces known as bioregions. The criticism of bioregionalism, however, pertains to the shortcomings of circumscribing cultur...

This paper considers novelty-seeking multi-agent systems as a step towards more efficient generation of creative artifacts. We describe a simple multi-agent architecture where agents have limited resources and exercise self-criticism, veto power and voting to collectively regulate which artifacts are selected to the domain i.e., the cultural storage of the system. To overcome their individual r...

The Universal Declaration on Bioethics and Human Rights adopted by the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) on 19 October 2005 is an important step in the search for global minimum standards in biomedical research and clinical practice. As a member of UNESCO International Bioethics Committee, I participated in the drafting of this document. Drawing on this ...

OBJECTIVE To examine the extent to which studies used to support empirically supported treatments for asthma, cancer, diabetes, and obesity address issues of cultural diversity. METHOD We chose original articles (71) of treatments used to support empirically supported treatments (ESTs) published as part of a special series on ESTs in the Journal of Pediatric Psychology. Trained coders reviewe...

Scientists' perceptions of their discipline clearly influence how they frame their research agenda. Seeing bioarchaeology as anthropology profoundly affects the problems that capture one's interest, the questions that one seeks to answer, and the methods one uses to resolve them. Bioarchaeology as anthropology reaffirms a worldview that incorporates an intradisciplinary biocultural approach wit...

The movement to establish uniform standards for the identification of empirically supported treatments (EST) has contributed to an impressive growth in the number of treatments deemed to have strong evidence of their efficacy. Those treatments meeting the most rigorous standards are often granted the label well-established and have been identified in a variety of online and print formats. An im...