How does one catch a rock that plummets to earth from outer space? Scott Sandford, a research astrophysicist at NASA’s Ames Research Center, is seen in the photo below (he is at the left) with the OSIRIS-REx Sample Return Capsule immediately after it landed in Utah on September 24, 2023. This was the first sample ever […]
This week’s Feedback column (that I write) in New Scientist magazine has four segments. Here are bits of each of them: Time for a nap — Brainy people get to dream a little more than not-quite-so-brainy people, correlationally speaking, if their brains and genomes accord with the findings of researchers from the University of the Republic in Uruguay, University […]
Investigator Dan Fingerman writes: In light of AIR’s classic article by Scott Sandford on comparing apples and oranges, I thought you might appreciate this. Google has introduced an algorithmic way to compare two items (such as apples & oranges). Google will compare the two items when search terms are entered in the form: compare item1 item2. Here is the […]
People full endlessly about whether and how to compare apples and pears, or apples and oranges, or whatever similar comparison is popular in their culture. Here’s a comparatively new approach: “Comparing Apples and Pears in Studies on Magnitude Estimations,” Mirjam Ebersbach [pictured here], Koen Luwel and Lieven Verschaffe, Frontiers in Cognitive Science, June 18, 2013. […]
