Quoting from a report produced by the biology journal eLife, Dorothy Bishop writes: The eLife report states: It is important to note that we don’t ascribe value to the decision to review. Our aim is to produce high-quality reviews that will be of significant value but we are not able to review everything that is submitted. That is hard to believe:...

It is my favorite holiday, Fat Bear Week: Fat Bear Week – an annual celebration of success. All bears are winners but only one true champion will emerge. Held over the course of seven days and concluding on the Fat Bear Tuesday, people chose which bear to crown in this tournament style bracket where bears are pitted against each other for your vote....

As promised last month, here they are: Here are 22 exercises I [Salesses] have given (as options) so far. Some are diagnostic. Some are more traditional prompts that require writing to a directive. They’re not in order of when I assigned them. 1. Make a list of all the decisions your protagonist makes, every single one. Now change the order of the...

I was just at a pizza place on Clybourne Ave (Pequod’s; great crust but I prefer the sauce at Lou’s), and that reminded me that I’d never seen Clybourne Park, despite having gone many times to Steppenwolf (mostly positive experiences except for a performance of Uncle Vanya that was so horrible we left after intermission; on this trip we saw The Thanksgiving...

Fri 4 Oct 2024, noon at Hastings Auditorium (HMR 100), USC Health Sciences Campus: There are three commonly stated principles of evidence-based research: (1) reliance on statistically significant results from randomized trials, (2) balancing of costs, benefits, and uncertainties in decision making, and (3) treatments targeted to individuals or subsets...

William Davies quotes Wendy Brown: Just as nothing is more corrosive to serious intellectual work than being governed by a political programme (whether that of states, corporations, or a revolutionary movement), nothing is more inapt to a political campaign than the unending reflexivity, critique and self-correction required of scholarly inquiry. Good...