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This may not win you any popularity contests. "In most social and workplace environments, asking 'Why?' can seem rude," Sindell acknowledges. "Unfortunately, if we allow ourselves to be forever polite, we will never get into the habit of good thinking. We will get so used to accepting every inanity uttered near us that we will completely lose our critical faculties ... The word why is a wonderful dumb-conversation stopper." Your next brilliant brainchild may not survive Sindell's 11 steps to become viable, let alone profitable, but if his method truly does lead to fewer dumb conversations, let's hope...
What doesn't seem to track, however, is a consistent connection between these measures and the complexity of the animals' communities. "The universality of the social-brain hypothesis does not apply," says Finarelli...
...group says the iPS cells generated using their method are equivalent to those made using Yamanaka's strategy. In fact, they seem to flourish more robustly than the traditional iPS cells, at least in lab tests that involve regrowing certain cells found in the retina. This could lead to a potential treatment to replace damaged eye cells in conditions such as retinitis pigmentosa or macular degeneration...
...Futurism itself was pretty much over by 1915 - the end point of the show. Briton Christopher Nevinson painted vorticist soldiers, Italian Gino Severini created some fractured war scenes, like Red Cross Train Passing a Village (1915), and the Russian Kazimir Malevich's figures seem constructed out of shell cases. This show is a chance to appreciate these artists and their youthful enthusiasm, before the first mechanized war crushed both...
...nations' concerns. But the other, probably more powerful influence in Beijing is the international department of the Chinese Communist Party, which tends to be pro- Pyongyang. Those two factions often struggle to influence the decisions of the senior leadership in Beijing - whose "red lines" when it comes to Pyongyang seem to be a "constantly moving target," as John Bolton, the former U.S. ambassador to the U.N. under Bush, puts...