Jewellery and grooming items found during summer excavation in Lincolnshire.
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Category: futurism – Page 981
That’s why freedom of movement is one of the key conditions necessary to successfully share resources. Other necessary conditions include low population densities, low market value of the resources, variability in resource distribution and an ethos of sharing.
Sometimes, there is no “tragedy” in the tragedy of the commons, according to a new analysis that challenges a widely accepted theory.
Scientists have long believed that when there is open access to a shared resource, people will inevitably overuse it, leading to ruin for everyone—an idea known as the “tragedy of the commons.”
But in an analysis of eight case studies from around the world—from foragers in Australia to mangrove fishers in Ecuador—researchers found that people can successfully share and sustainably use resources, under certain conditions.
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Our results suggest at least two different ways in which the brain has evolved to anticipate the future.
Go ahead and add ‘seeing the future’ to the growing list of amazing things your brain can do.
Well, almost, at least. According to new research from the University of California, Berkeley, it turns out that humans have the innate skill to somewhat predict or anticipate some things moments before they actually happen.
The research has suggested that humans have two ‘internal clocks’ in your brain, connected to your cerebellum and the basal ganglia, both of which work together to allow you to make these short-term predictions.
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