Nature Physics - Cargo-cult science redux. ... where he 'corrected' his data on photoluminescence by drawing peaks in by hand, thus fooling his thesis advisor, Ernst Bucher, ...

Every February, one of the last South Pacific islands to host a cargo cult puts on a major festival. Reading about this year’s party made me think of cargo cults in general, and one in particular that ...

Island's cargo cult celebrates 50 years worshipping the US. By Nick Squires in Lamakara 16 February 2007 • 12:01am . Tannese Islanders belonging to the John Frum Movement.

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.

“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 ...

After the Second World War, cargo cults in Melanesia built landing strips in the jungle, complete with airplanes built out of straw, like duck decoys, and waited for airplanes from afar to arrive ...

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.