Science Fact: Prediction promises us the big answers: Will the stock market hit 35,000? Who will win the World Series? Will the Russians invade Crimea? (Oh, wait, that already happened.) Prediction also offers us practical advice: You can’t tune into … Continue reading
Goodreads Giveaway was the lead widget in the right margin of this website for the past month. Goodreads is a readers’ website and they offer a great way for a book to find new readers: an author or publisher can offer one … Continue reading
Science Fact: Your kitchen design is making you fat! OK, maybe with diligent effort we could make ourselves fat anyway. But scientists find that kitchen design strongly affects our eating habits. This is true even if we conscientiously try to … Continue reading
Science Fact: The depiction of horses in paintings raises questions touching both science and art: the nature of the real world, and the way we portray it. Figurative painting – painting that is clearly derived from a real-world scene – is … Continue reading