Fractal patterns abound in nature [1] and began to capture the imaginations of ecologists and animal behaviorists a little over three decades ago [2–4]. One field of study in which interest in fractal patterns has grown substantially over this time is animal movement ecology, where three basic approaches have been employed [reviewed in [5]]. Among these are (i) spatial [4,6,7] and (ii) temporal...

There are very few jokes about sociologists. This is frustrating for the sociologists, especially if they compare themselves with their more favored second cousins, the psychologists, who have pretty much taken over that sector of American humor that used to be occupied by clergymen. A psychologist, introduced as such at a party, at once finds himself the object of considerable attention and un...

Children ranging from 4 to 8years (n=39) reported whether they could imagine various improbable phenomena (e.g., a person making onion juice) as well as various impossible phenomena (e.g., a person turning an onion into a banana) and then described what they imagined. In their descriptions, children mentioned ordinary causes much more often than extraordinary causes. Descriptions of such ordina...

The material consequences of the US-led “war on terror” in Pakistan are always counted statistical terms, that is, number casualties drone strikes or suicide bombings. Little attention, however, is paid to local public imagination know how ordinary people consume this everyday destruction and what kind cultural production it ensures shapes inspires their imagination. In study, therefore, we dis...

The author discusses the relationship between symbolic play, abstract thinking, and divergent and associative thinking based on analogies, and finally connects symbolic play with the creative process. Play and the creative act are seen as similar by definition, since they are characterized as divergent, regulative, expressive and autotelic processes. Symbolic play is not only a product of the a...

This article considers the ethical dimension of performative practice with refugees and migrants, positioning storytelling as a double-edged sword that can either elevate or stigmatise storyteller. The discussion is inspired by 10 things you need to consider if are an artist, not refugee asylum seeker community, looking work our manifesto written Cañas, Refugee Survivor Ex-Detainee (RISE) art d...

This article critically examines the ways in which the trope of prosthesis has been used in recent theory to understand human-technology relationships. Analyzing the trope from a number of angles, including disability, factory labor practices, mass production, and marketing, the author scrutinizes ways in which technologies are simultaneously wounding and enabling in ways for which the prosthes...