Interpreters in Our Midst

Uranium Weapons Cover-ups in Our Midst

The concept of toxic-radioactive warfare dates back to World War II when air attacks with uranium oxide aerosols were considered a realistic threat. The military recognized the potential of uranium smoke (aerosol) as a terrain contaminant and an instrument of gas warfare that kills and incapacitates troops and civilians and denies territory to enemy. US War Department’s Manhattan Project consid...

The meddling microbes midst our medicines

It is not surprising that the complex metabolic machinery of the gut microbiome has accidental, or directed, ability to alter our medicines and influence their efficacy. What is not known is the extent to which this has contributed to drug failures or contraindications, or to the derailment of clinical trials. Some studies are unraveling the mechanisms by which the microbiota alter specific dru...

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Gorillas in our midst: sustained inattentional blindness for dynamic events.

With each eye fixation, we experience a richly detailed visual world. Yet recent work on visual integration and change direction reveals that we are surprisingly unaware of the details of our environment from one view to the next: we often do not detect large changes to objects and scenes ('change blindness'). Furthermore, without attention, we may not even perceive objects ('inattentional blin...

Aging increases inattentional blindness to the gorilla in our midst.

When engaged in an attention-demanding task, people are surprisingly vulnerable to inattentional blindness--the failure to notice an unexpected event. Two theories of cognitive aging, attentional capacity models and inhibitory deficit models, make opposite predictions about age differences in susceptibility to inattentional blindness. We tested these predictions using an inattentional blindness...