Preventive against madness in elephants

Madness

here are clouds in the painting, of course. Almost any one of us would have included those clouds, thick with electricity and rainwater. And there is the wheat field, smudged out like an empty palm, orange beneath the storm-stricken sun. Surely, many of us would have insisted on the wheat as well. Through the middle of the wheat, a rutted road slices to the horizon and disappears beneath the cl...

Preventive Inoculation against Enteric Fever

Madness in Society

Madness in the Community

The cause of mental disorder remains uncertain, but evidence indicates that genetic vulnerability, early life experiences and recent stresses are important factors, in at least some cases. At a cellular level, pathological changes in the amount of chemical messengers which pass from one nerve cell to the next have been proposed, along with or as well as other abnormalities. The symptoms of ment...

Only Aggressive Elephants are Fast Elephants

Yellow elephants are slow. A major reason is that they consume their inputs entirely before responding to an elephant rider’s orders. Some clever riders have trained their yellow elephants to only consume parts of the inputs before responding. However, the teaching time to make an elephant do that is high. So high that the teaching lessons often do not pay off. We take a different approach. We ...