In one study that set out to investigate this question, young chimps observed a researcher using a stick to retrieve candy from a clear plastic box, employing both effective and ineffective motions. The chimps quickly discerned the candy-releasing moves and proceeded to repeat only those. Four-year-old children who watched the same demonstration, however, imitated the entire routine, including the unnecessary moves. The children seemed to put their trust in the experimenter and thus invest some magical significance or “blind faith” in actions of no practical value—perhaps a symptom of the human predisposition for superstition, de Waal posits.
The ease with which our brain suspends reality—call it irrationality, imagination or faith—has been crucial to the development of religion in human culture, according to de Waal, a respected primatologist and avowed atheist.
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/mind-reviews-bonobo-and-atheist/#
#religion #atheism #study #research #bonobo
interest in pascal and haskell rises and fades together with study periods.
#screenshot #programming_languages #ada #pascal #haskell #study #programming
she was telling what did she write when she was studying.
#study
this might relate to Diaspora, and any other social network.
Facebook use predicts declines in happiness, new study finds
the actual research paper
#facebook #internet #social-network #happiness #study
Finding the Original Azerbaijan, or Aran
Ara Ghazarians talks to CivilNet about his English translation of Dr Enayatollah Reza’s book “Azerbaijan and Aran” that explains how political motivations, historic ties and and ethnic connections lie behind the use, or abuse, of the names Azerbaijan and Aran on two historic territories in the Caucasus and Iran — the Republic of Azerbaijan and the province of Azerbaijan in the Islamic Republic of Iran.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hKalUVotH_Y http://civilnet.am/ara-ghazarians-azerbaijan-and-or-aran/
#conflict #Azerbaijan #Aran #Caucasian-Albania #Iran #Armenia #Caucasus #history #geography #ethnography #archeology #translation #English #Enayatollah-Reza #Ara-Ghazarians #civilnet #azeri #azari #research #book #history-abuse #naming #politics #Turkey #expansionism #motives #absurdity #pan-turkism #fake #books #study #education
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IRVdiHu1VCc
#tragedy #ted #study #dirty #work #discovery
