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The adventures of an idea should be entertaining. The Wisdom of Crowds is a circus of oddments and behavioral studies--for example, of big-city pedestrian flow (an unconscious art form) and highway traffic snarls (caused by hiccups of human reaction time--"a single driver who's too ready to...
At an awesome 153 m tall, the bronze buddha recently unveiled in central China's Henan province seemed destined to become a rare tourist attraction in a place better known for its burgeoning AIDS problem. Yet when thousands of people tried attending the buddha's dedication ceremony last year, police...
THE CRITICAL MASS JAZZ EXPERIMENT
Distrust Fund A bank in south London disclosed that it had offered passers-by free ?5 notes if they went in to claim them during a two-hour experiment in January. Wrongly suspecting a catch, no one cashed in.
For the moment, Kaguya's creation is a brilliant piece of science with little or no application to humans. The process by which she was produced is so technically difficult--not to mention ethically charged--that it is hard to see how it could be attempted with human subjects. In...