The present research explored the belief that it is bad luck to "tempt fate." Studies 1 and 2 demonstrated that people do indeed have the intuition that actions that tempt fate increase the likelihood of negative outcomes. Studies 3-6 examined our claim that the intuition is due, in large part, to the combination of the automatic tendencies to attend to negative prospects and to use accessibili...

Despite the extraordinary successes the two great bastions of 20 century science (Quantum Theory and General Relativity) are troubled with serious conceptual and mathematical difficulties. As a result, further growth of fundamental science is at stake. Is this the end of science? Optimistic answer is “NOT”! In this work, it is argued that science must continue its cruise, but with anew strategy...

Colorful brain images may tempt researchers to make claims that outpace solid scientific data—and may tempt the public to believe those claims. In particular, although brain imaging has provided solid evidence of alterations in brain structures and functions associated with many psychiatric disorders, it can be used neither to diagnose such disorders nor to determine exactly how treatments work...

which has since been known as Kummer's theorem. This appears to be the simplest relation involving a hypergeometric function with argument ( — 1). All the relations in the theory of hypergeometric series rF8 which have analogues in the theory of basic series are those in which the argument is ( + 1 ) . Apparently, there has been no successful at tempt to establish the basic analogue of any form...

The title and cover was enough to tempt me, as the book seemed like a humorous story about the life of a surgeon. But after reading, it was more than that.