Similarly, Hans Rosling's Fun with Stats provides some very nice demonstrations of how to convey meaning via the creative display of numbers. (realclimate.org)
«It is a very nice demonstration of deferred imitation in dogs,» says Frans de Waal, a primatologist at Emory University in Atlanta who suggests that now that this ability has been found in our canid pals, it's likely to be found in many other animals. (sciencemag.org)
Joshua Greene, an assistant professor of psychology at Harvard University, who first proposed that utilitarian decision making involves overcoming an emotional component, says that the new study is «a really nice demonstration of the idea that moral decisions — at least in cases like these — are not driven by a single moral faculty but rather by two different kinds of processes that can be in competition with each other.» (scientificamerican.com)