Consider the Alternative

Consider the Strip-Tillage Alternative

seed germination, is a new alternative to no-till in areas where poorly drained soils are dominant. Where soil moisture conditions are suitable, strip-tillage creates narrow-width tilled strips, traditionally in the fall, to increase early spring soil evaporation and soil temperature in the top 2 inches. This is particularly effective in poorly drained wet soils, where slightly raised soil stri...

PCTs consider alternative to homeopathic hospitals.

One of England's four homeopathic hospitals is at risk of closure because of primary care trusts' reluctance to refer patients outside the NHS mainstream. Other homeopathic hospitals are also facing severe financial problems Kent PCT, which runs Tunbridge Wells Homeopathic Hospital and also refers the majority of patients, is consulting on whether to vet all referrals made by GPs to the hospita...

Consider the octopus.

it is a scene that would do justice to a horror movie: body clamped against the diver’s mask, one tentacle deftly turning off the oxygen supply while others tug relentlessly at the connecting hoses. Despairingly, the diver looks at the octopus and, across an immense phylogenetic gulf, camera eye meets camera eye. if the struggling diver is a biologist he might take some consolation that the gla...

and Consider the map

Learning to Consider Alternative Causes: Can Practice Make Us More Aware of Our Imperfection?

In hindsight bias, upon learning an outcome, one is overly confident that one would have “known it all along.” Several researchers have been able to neutralize hindsight bias by prompting participants to consider alternative outcomes, but can we learn to avoid bias for novel outcomes, without prompting? Foresight participants read brief summaries of five psychology studies, and learned the mean...