Chimpanzees have a fission-fusion social structure, whereby ever-changing subgroups can join and separate within the home range.
They are reacting against and circumventing current ways of procuring buildings whereby, marginalised by ever more elaborate structures of project managers and other consultants, architects become, as Maxwell puts it, "glorified draughtspeople".
Gordon E. Moore, Intel's co-founder, recently declared that the hafnium-and-gate process innovations should allow his so-called Moore's Law, whereby chips grow ever faster and less expensive, to hold true for some time.
He spoke of his worries about the "unknown unknowns" in the wake of the Patriot Act - whereby no one can ever tell anyone they have private information on you.
It also represents the outer edge of one of the strands of support for Corbyn that may yet prove to be its downfall: the politics of puritanism, whereby no compromise can ever be brooked, and to even question the leader's bona fides is to ally oneself with "Blairites", "warmongers", and worse.
A new study shows that Cladophorales green algae have the most unconventional chloroplast DNAs ever observed, whereby genes are located on small linear single-stranded palindromic elements.
This "creeping substitution" of good with bad appears to be the manner whereby cartilage damage extends ever deeper into the cartilage with time.
This in turn leads to a feedback effect whereby movie adaptations produce ever-diminishing returns.
But it argues that the cumbersome administration of benefits by jobcentres, coupled with a heavy-handed sanctions system whereby claimants who breach ever-tighter benefit rules have payments stopped for weeks at a time, is a bigger contributor to people going without food.
Yet, with the possible exception of the double monasteries of medieval Europe, there is no truly hierarchical superiority whereby a nun, be she ever so exalted, could have disciplinary powers over a monk or even over a male novice.
Pattern Recognition, a chilled-out meditation on marketing and the otaku instinct (named after the Japanese word for obsessive collector), as well as a detective story about an inexplicably haunting, numinous piece of film that is released in chunks over the internet, marks the culmination of a process in Gibson's novels whereby the future has come ever closer.
