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Who's Afraid of the Boss? Culture in the Global Workplace
Who's Afraid of the Boss? Culture in the Global Workplace"At home, a young man should be dutiful towards his parents; going outside, he should be respectful towards his elders." -Confucius (Chinese...
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Might Pleistocene Fido Have Been A Fox?
Might Pleistocene Fido Have Been A Fox?There is a small bit of land, only about a square kilometer, that has added a new wrinkle to the story of animal domestication. This bit of land located in...
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Defending Your Territory: Is Peeing on the Wall Just for the Dogs?
Defending Your Territory: Is Peeing on the Wall Just for the Dogs?Welcome to Territoriality Week! Every day this week, I'll have a post about some aspect of animal or human territoriality. How do...
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Defending Your Territory: Be Smelly, Be Fast
Defending Your Territory: Be Smelly, Be FastWelcome to the third installment of Animal Territoriality Week. See part 1 here, and part 2 here.In 1994, a disease called sarcoptic mange swept through...
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Sleepy or Empathetic: What Does Yawning Mean?
Sleepy or Empathetic: What Does Yawning Mean?You know that old phrase, "monkey see, monkey do"? Well, there might be something to it, except that chimpanzees aren't monkeys. (Sadly, "ape see, ape do"...
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Baby Animals at the LA Zoo
Baby Animals at the LA ZooI've been a bit remiss in posting much this week, mostly because I had to prep a guest lecture (from which I just returned, and it was awesome thankyouverymuch) on the...
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Are Infants Born Prepared For Learning? The Case for Natural Pedagogy
Are Infants Born Prepared For Learning? The Case for Natural PedagogyWhat is learning? Most psychologists (indeed, most people in general) would agree that learning is the acquisition of new knowledge,...
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Is Pedagogy Specific to Humans? Teaching in the Animal World
Is Pedagogy Specific to Humans? Teaching in the Animal WorldHuman infants have one important job during the first years of life, and that is to learn about the world and their culture from their...
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Think like a doctor, don't let them crack your neck!
Think like a doctor, don't let them crack your neck!This week's think like a doctor column in the NYT is great. It asks the question, if a woman goes to a chiropractor, gets her neck manipulated, and...
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Out of the gate, Bret Stephens punches the hippies, says dumb things
Out of the gate, Bret Stephens punches the hippies, says dumb thingsRight in the middle, between the Trump-inspired March for Science, and the Trump-inspired People's Climate March, the New York times...
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