It's not about enjoyment

It’s Not About The Biceps

In the biomedical paradigm all symptoms and limitations are ascribed to discrete pathophysiology. However, abiopsychosocial health model that accounts for the important influence of mind-set and circumstances on illness maybe preferable in the vast majority of cases. Some of the shortcomings of the biomedical model include an overrelianceon tests and treatments. One major issue of the biomedica...

Gesture Production during Spatial Tasks: Its Not All About Difficulty

Previous research has shown that speakers gesture more when describing imagistic information than when describing nonimagistic information. One explanation for this finding is that spatial information is more difficult to describe verbally than non-spatial information. In the present study, we designed two novel tasks, one verbal and one spatial, in which difficulty and spatiality were not conf...

Morality Predicts Enjoyment But Not Appreciation of Morally Ambiguous Characters

Computer Science: Not about Computers, Not Science

This paper makes two claims about the fundamental nature of computer science. In particular, I claim that—despite its name—the field of computer science is neither the study of computers, nor is it science in the ordinary sense of the word. While there are technical exceptions to both claims, the nature, purpose, and ultimately the crucial contributions of the beautiful discipline of computer s...

AccucheckInform II: About Its Accuracy and Precision