Are engineers and scientists alike, or different? (1)

Task Difficulty and Its Components: Are They Alike or Different across Different Macro-genres?

Task difficulty across different macro-genres continues to remain among less attended areas in second language development studies. This study examined the correlation between task difficulty across the descriptive, narrative, argumentative, and expository macro-genres. The three components of task difficulty (i.e., code complexity, cognitive complexity, and communicative stress) were also comp...

Engineers or Scientists?

Scientists and Engineers

Python for Scientists and Engineers

D uring the past decade, Python (an interpreted, high-level programming language) has arguably become the de facto standard for exploratory, interactive, and computation-driven scientific research. This issue discusses Python’s advantages for scientific research and presents several of the core Python libraries and tools used in this domain. Although the issue’s articles are selfcontained, they...

Different and yet alike

233 Last year saw the posthumous publication of Stephen Jay Gould’s last volume, The Hedgehog, the Fox and the Magister’s Pox (Gould, 2003) with the subtitle ‘Mending and minding the misconceived gap between science and the humanities’. The two protagonists were chosen to represent metaphorically a stereotypical disparity between two different ways of ‘knowing’ or looking at nature. The hedgeho...