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News from the Field

B O S T O N UNIVERSITY LIB R AR Y has been given a valuable collection of Lincoln letters, documents a n d related materials, number ing eighty-six items. Of special interest is an order to Genera l Winf ie ld Scott to susp e n d the writ of habeas corpus. T h e donor is the H o n o r a b l e Edward C. Stone, a member of the Massachusetts Senate a n d chairm a n of the Board of Trus tees of the...

News from the Archives

Why do so many scientific research articles languish in obscurity? There is no single answer. No doubt many have earned their ignominy by their flawed scholarship, poor exposition, or arcane subject matter, but this is not always the case. A search of the old literature often uncovers many seemingly worthy contributions that have inexplicably fallen into oblivion. Probably the most common reaso...

News from the field

News from the field

The precision of our discriminations varies with stimulus length (Weber, 1851), such that we can notice both when the school clock is 5 min late with its hourly chime as well as when a musical note is played half a beat late (~0.3 s, in a mid-tempo song). Exactly how we appropriately scale the precision of our discriminations remains something of a mystery, but perhaps even more mysterious is h...

News from the Field

Ç IN this issue’s “News from the Field” we present the three finalists for the “Best Demo” award at the Eurohaptics conference held in Versailles, France, in June 2014. There were 30 demos displayed at the conference and these three demos were selected as finalists by the Awards Committee. The winner of the “Best Demo” award was “Distinct pseudo-attraction force sensation by a thumb-sized vibra...