Human beings have been designed by evolution to be good pattern matchers, and to trust the patterns they find; as a corollary their intuition about probability is abysmal. Lotteries and Las Vegas wouldn't function if it weren't so.
Season 1: Welcome to the jungle The League of Legends Season 1 Championship in 2011 wasn't planned as an event that was anything close to the scope of what we now know as worlds. It wasn't called a world championship at all and the game itself was in its competitive infancy. There we...
living on the edge of an ocean my 24/7 job crisscrossing the country hardly afforded me time to see, I hopped a last-minute flight to join friends in Thailand, ferried to Koh-Phi-Phi, an island in the Andaman Sea. Determined to avail myself of the advertised too-good-to-be-legal ...
The key goal is to allow other researchers to recreate the light exposure in all stages of the experiment. Where it is not possible to directly make spectral measurements (e.g., no measurement equipment available) but where the manufacturer has provided a spectrum, it is preferable to report ...
A cell-size perspective not only helps to explain some (but not all) variation in metabolic rate and its body-mass scaling, but may also foster the conceptual integration of studies of ontogenetic development and body-mass scaling. Citation: Glazier, D.S. How Metabolic Rate Relates to Cell ...