Of course, the planes never came, despite the increasingly elaborate attempts of the 'cargo cult' to mimic the runways ... his data on photoluminescence by drawing peaks in by hand, thus fooling ...

Draw your own conclusion. People can create belief systems out of almost anything, and drunken college students are nothing new. But I find it interesting that my class, with such a depth of ...

Tannese Islanders belonging to the John Frum Movement The US's standing in the world may have plummeted under President George W Bush, but a bizarre cargo cult in the Vanuatu island nation holds ...

“Cargo Cult Science” was adapted from Feynman’s 1974 commencement speech at Caltech, where his spirit reigns as one of that institution’s two certified saints. (The other is Robert A ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. The devotees of one of the world's last surviving "cargo cults" are a patient bunch. On the remote Pacific island of Tanna, in ...

Drawing the shape of a US flag in the volcanic sand with his finger, Chief Isaac said: "John predicted the Americans will help us. He will make the whites bring us cars, wharves, airports, everything.

After the Second World War, cargo cults in Melanesia built landing strips ... which will undoubtedly draw as many cyclists as the unused Urban Transitway bicycle lanes. The only effect on at ...

Cargo Cult. The People of Paradise. First transmitted in 1960, David Attenborough encounters a peculiar cult group while visiting the New Hebrides as part of his expedition to the South West Pacific.