Discusses the relation between cybernetics and architecture and pays tribute to Gordon Pask’s role and influence. Indicates Pask’s contribution to an increasingly environmentally responsive architectural theory that may lead to a more humane and ecologically conscious environment.

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A model of time-consistent procrastination is developed to assess the extent to which the observed behavior is compatible with rational behavior. When a finite work requirement must be completed by a deadline, the remaining time for leisure is an exhaustible resource. With a positive rate of time preference, the optimal allocation of this resource results in more hours spent working (and fewer ...

This paper is concerned with the recent wave of Hong Kong immigrants into Van couver. The stage is set for this discussion by first explaining some background behind Canadian imm igration policy and then discussing the history of Chinese immigrants in Vancouver. From these discu ssions we are informed that Canadian immigration policy was historically ethnocentric and only began to change in the...

Welfare programs are often implemented in-kind to promote outcomes that might not be realized under cash transfers. I use a randomized controlled trial of the Mexican government’s Food Assistance Program (‘PAL’) to test whether this form of paternalism is necessary, comparing precisely measured consumption and health outcomes under both inkind food and cash transfers. Importantly, I …nd that ho...

Drawing on a corpus of clickbait headlines (Chakraborty et al., 2016) and using ideas from the relevance-theoretic pragmatic framework (Sperber Wilson, 1986/95), this paper examines some ways in which writers arouse curiosity their readers by creating an “information gap” (Loewenstein, 1994). Comparative analysis is combined with close illustrative examples to explore contribution that particul...