Mount Fuji is Not as “Active” as We Think

Is science as global as we think?

A cornerstone of scientific practice is the perceived freedom with which knowledge is disseminated. But does the scientific community make good use of all that is available? Researchers have, on occasion, been accused of preferentially citing the work of colleagues close to home while ignoring those from other parts of the world [1,2]. Such practices, if true, raise serious concerns about the f...

Nocturnal colour vision--not as rare as we might think.

The dual retina of humans and most vertebrates consists of multiple types of cone for colour vision in bright light and one single type of rod, leaving these animals colour-blind at night. Instead of comparing the signals from different spectral types of photoreceptors, they use one highly sensitive receptor, thus improving the signal-to-noise ratio. However, nocturnal moths and geckos can disc...

As We May Think

Are we as depressed as we think we are?

MEDICAL attitudes to psychotropic drugs in general and antidepressants in particular tend to be casual, and their effects seen as innocuous. Indeed if used as recommended by their manufacturers tricyclic antidepressants are not very effective drugs, although some of their side effects and interactions can be very serious. It has been stated that tricyclics generally have a margin of superiority...

Karimi , Simin ( 1999 ) ' Is scrambling as strange as we think it is ? , ' MIT