Balancing may be everywhere, but the proportionality test is not

“Not Everything That Is Faced Can Be Changed, but Nothing Can Be Changed Until It Is Faced”: A Response to Recent Commentaries

Consciousness: Here, There but Not Everywhere

The science of consciousness has made great strides by focusing on the behavioral and neuronal correlates of experience. However, correlates are not enough if we are to understand even basic neurological fact; nor are they of much help in cases where we would like to know if consciousness is present: patients with a few remaining islands of functioning cortex, pre-term infants, non-mammalian sp...

You May be Able to Teach Early Classes, but Students May Not be Awake Yet!

Academic success of first-year students is one of the primary concerns of higher education institutes. A factor that may influence students’ success in a course and has been ignored is the effect of time of class on students’ performance. The goal of this study is to investigate the relationship between class time and students’ performance in a course to verify whether or not students enrolled ...

The vertical horopter is not adaptable, but it may be adaptive.

Depth estimates from disparity are most precise when the visual input stimulates corresponding retinal points or points close to them. Corresponding points have uncrossed disparities in the upper visual field and crossed disparities in the lower visual field. Due to these disparities, the vertical part of the horopter--the positions in space that stimulate corresponding points--is pitched top-b...

Mineral inclusions in diamonds may be synchronous but not syngenetic

It is widely assumed that mineral inclusions and their host diamonds are 'syngenetic' in origin, which means that they formed simultaneously and from the same chemical processes. Mineral inclusions that, instead, were formed earlier with respect to diamonds are termed protogenetic. However, minerals can have the same age as the diamonds in that they become enclosed in and isolated from any furt...