Relying upon a content analysis of one specific type of medium to which young people are exposed beginning at an early age, on a regular basis, and for many years (i.e., animated cartoons), the present study examines what types of messages are provided about being physically unattractive, physically attractive, and ordinary-looking. This research concerns itself with identifying the characteris...

The human reward system has been shown to be activated by a wide range of reinforcers, including food, money, sex, drugs, and beauty. Now, a recent fMRI study has found mesolimbic reward activation associated with humorous cartoons, providing a neurobiological link between theories of humour and hedonic processes in the brain.

SUMMARY Protein topology cartoons are a representation of structural data commonly used by structural biologists to illustrate the relationship between one-dimensional sequence and three-dimensional structural data in a convenient two-dimensional format. TopDraw is a simple, freely available TCL/Tk based drawing program designed specifically for the production of publication quality topology ca...

In Britain, ‘super-diverse’ communities, where children navigate multiple cultural repertoires, are increasingly prevalent. However, Reception teachers pressured to ensure children, aged four and five, conform a narrow conception of ‘school-readiness’. Research demonstrates in multicultural contexts construct ‘third space’, bridging their home school discourses. This research shows how opportun...

We d e s c r i b e some f e a t u r e s of a p rog ram w h i c h i n t e r p r e t s c a r t o o n s w h i c h a r e t w o d i m e n s i o n a l r e p r e s e n t a t i o n s o f e v e n t s i n t h e t h r e e d i m e n s i o n a l w o r l d . The m a i n p rob lems c o n f r o n t i n g t h e r e c o g n i t i o n p r o c e d u r e s s tem f r o m t h e d i f f i c u l t i e s i n d e s c r i...

Rube Goldberg’s cartoons famously depict absurd, unreasonably complex machines invented by Professor Lucifer G. Butts to carry out simple tasks. Rube Goldberg machine has now become a byword for overly complicated machinery or bureaucracy of any kind. The specific structure of Goldberg’s original cartoons, however, is quite interesting. Beyond simply being complex, his machines are based on a p...