Context Is Everything or How Could I Have Been That Stupid?

Context is everything or how could I have been that stupid?

Dual Process Theory provides a useful working model of decision-making. It broadly divides decision-making into intuitive (System 1) and analytical (System 2) processes. System 1 is especially dependent on contextual cues. There appears to be a universal human tendency to contextualize information, mostly in an effort to imbue meaning but also, perhaps, to conserve cognitive energy. Most decisi...

The 'What Could Have Been' Photo

The goal of the project is to create new scenarios in a supplied photo by replacing some of its elements with elements from other photos. This could be used to repair imperfectly taken photos (photo with shadow due to camera lens that was partially covered by finger), to remove elements that spoil the imagery of a picture (a garbage can in the middle of a rose garden), or to create an image wit...

It's the Network, Stupid: Why Everything in Medicine Is Connected

How Could Language Have Evolved?

The evolution of the faculty of language largely remains an enigma. In this essay, we ask why. Language's evolutionary analysis is complicated because it has no equivalent in any nonhuman species. There is also no consensus regarding the essential nature of the language "phenotype." According to the "Strong Minimalist Thesis," the key distinguishing feature of language (and what evolutionary th...

The Global Fund Secretariat's suspension of funding to Uganda: how could this have been avoided?

In August 2005, the Global Fund to fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria (the Global Fund) Secretariat suspended its five grants to Uganda following a PricewaterhouseCoopers audit report that exposed gross mismanagement in the Project Management Unit. How could this have been avoided? How can other countries avoid a similar pitfall? We argue that if a legitimate and fair decision-making process ...