Word: adaptiveness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Another session will look at Wilson's pet research topic, division of labor in ant colonies. He plans to bring in his experimental colonies of South American leaf-cutting ants. In Nat Sci 6, Wilson was famous for a unique lecture-demonstration style--one that should adapt nicely to the new labs. He waves his arms above his head and zigzags about the floor to simulate the way the bugs use their antennae to sniff out trails left by fellow ants. Though this may strike some as collegiate show-and-tell, Wilson asserts that by introducing actual research...
Though science has little studied how habitual air conditioning affects mind or body, some medical experts suggest that, like other technical avoidance of natural swings in climate, air conditioning may take a toll on the human capacity to adapt to stress. If so, air conditioning is only like many other greatly useful technical developments that liberate man from nature by increasing his productivity and power in some ways-while subtly weakening him in others...
More than 500 U.S. cities now have preservation ordinances aimed specifically at saving honorable structures from the wrecker's ball. A raft of federal, state and local laws provide financial incentives to adapt disused buildings to creative new uses. The U.S. Department of the Interior has boosted its funding of such projects from $300,000 in 1968 to $60 million this year, as much in realization of their economic potential as appreciation of their historic value. Old courthouses, railroad stations, firehouses, police stations, armories, ice houses, hotels, office buildings, factories, warehouses, schools and department stores have found a lively...
...answer for everyone else--that is an artifact of the media and that has nothing to do with what we were trying to accomplish, nor did the interest in the media arise in any way from our efforts. So whether or not other colleges profit in any way or adapt their curriculum from ours is something that is hard for me to predict. My guess is that there will probably be some colleges perhaps that would find their situations sufficiently like ours and order their educational priorities sufficiently like ours that would lead them to change their curriculums in some...
Play doctors are a special breed. They must adapt their craft to another's style...