Word: correctible
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...scurried around randomly for a while, but the robots eventually settled under the lighter, less shadowy disk - and the real cockroaches followed. Which means that the hypothesis - that a group of individual bugs, each with just two cognitive "rules," can make a collective decision about shelter - appears to be correct...
Their instincts proved correct, and Mark de Rond, an expert on teamwork at Cambridge's Judge Business School, knows why. He writes about the rowers and their lessons for business in a book, The Subjectivity of Performance, to be published next year. In building the best teams, de Rond argues, it's sometimes necessary to jettison a bit of skill for sociability. "Talent is not just an individual trait but a social one," he says. That's true for high-performance business teams too: affable B players often bring out the best in the superstars. "They are lubricants; they...
...this new investment is an attempt to correct years of neglect. For decades, India was the biggest producer, exporter and consumer of tea in the world. That changed in 1991 after the collapse of the Soviet Union, India's largest export market, where demand fell by two-thirds, to less than 88 million lbs. (40 million kg) per year. India's producers had grown reliant on that guaranteed market, failing to maintain their bushes and machinery, and they never really recovered. Sri Lanka and Kenya are now the world's biggest exporters, each selling about 692 million lbs. (314 million...
...Liberals, rather than questioning the moral tenability of such a position—whether choice for some and nothing for others is acceptable—often make an argument based on efficiency. New York Times columnist Paul Krugman, for one, suggests governments are necessary to correct for market failure. Those who need care the most, the chronically sick or diseased, are denied insurance. As a result, their conditions worsen, debt accumulates, and the public must eventually pick...
...know much less about us than we do about them. Australia, we hear, is rather like Texas 50 or 100 years ago. The basic American idea of the basic Australian male is--who else?--whatsizname, him with the big knife, star of Crocodile Dundee. Aussies (wrongly pronounced Awzies; the correct pronunciation is Ozzies, though we'd rather you Yanks dropped the dumb pseudointimacy altogether and just called us Australians) are all supposed to be as straight as Harrison Ford or John Wayne, despite our superficially confusing habit of addressing a friend or a stranger of the same sex as "mate...