Why Is My Dog’s Labwork Different From Yours?

This Is My (Post) Truth, Tell Me Yours; Comment on “The Rise of Post-truth Populism in Pluralist Liberal Democracies: Challenges for Health Policy”

This is a commentary on the article ‘The rise of post-truth populism in pluralist liberal democracies: challenges for health policy.’ It critically examines two of its key concepts: populism and ‘post truth.’ This commentary argues that there are different types of populism, with unclear links to impacts, and that in some ways, ‘post-truth’ has resonances with arguments advanced in the period a...

Teachers’ aims of laboratory work in secondary school in Sweden

Introduction Laboratory work and practical work are common and significant components of science education. Teachers are expected by tradition, culture and curriculum (e.g. Boud, Dunn and Hegarty-Hazel, 1989; Lunetta, 1998; Skolverket, 1998) to involve labwork as a part of science education. Swedish National Curriculum (Skolverket, 1998) renders objectives involving for example development of s...

Are my Values Different from Yours? The Value of Coronary Artery Disease Invasive Care in Brazil

Testing Generalization in Learned Simulated Robot Behaviors

Barriers to empirical comparisons of architectures are myriad and daunting, especially for physical robots. Architectures are implemented on different platforms that are often incompatible. Replicability is difficult to produce, and the multiple trials required for statistical significance are simply impractical or infeasible. The design criteria may be quite different as well, leading to poten...

My Botnet Is Bigger Than Yours (Maybe, Better Than Yours): Why Size Estimates Remain Challenging

As if fueled by its own fire, curiosity and speculation regarding botnet sizes abounds. Among researchers, in the press, and in the classroom—the questions regarding the widespread effect of botnets seem never-ending: what are they? how many are there? what are they used for? Yet, time and time again, one lingering question remains: how big are today’s botnets? We hear widely diverging answers....