Tag Archives: science for lay people

16/04/2016 Ambiguous White Chess | Aversion Ambiguity | science for lay people | White Chess | Yoko Ono Feitosa-Santana

Aversion to Ambiguity

  People in general hate ambiguity and prefer any kind of risk that is not obscure, indeterminate, ambivalent. In other words, the well-specified possibilities are preferred over the uncertain possibilities – even if the well-specified gains are of lower values ​​than the uncertain ones. This bias is irrational and has a name: Ellsberg paradox. This […]

01/08/2013 education | famous morning larks | famous night owls | morning person and night person | night person intelligence | night person vs day person | science for lay people Feitosa-Santana

Early to Rise? Ordinary and Happy. Late-to-Bed-Late-to-Rise? Intelligent and Depressed.

According to the University of Madrid and the London School of Economics, those who wake up early have more time just to mediocrity. Those who sleep later and wake up later are generally smarter. Those who sleep late and wake up late have better analytical thinking, conceptual and critical. Despite some exceptions, such as Thomas […]

13/07/2013 chicago museum of science | Color is in the Brain | education | entertainment | Isaac Newton Light and Color | john werner | physical stimulus | science | science for lay people | visual stimulus | wavelengths of light Feitosa-Santana

Museum of Science and Industry, Chicago: Review

According to the Museum of Science and Industry (Chicago, IL) “the color of an object is determined by the specific wavelengths of lights that it absorbs and reflects” but THIS IS NOT TRUE. This wrong definition is presented in the Color Booth and situated in the Science Storm Exhibition. Here are some explanations about why color […]

11/07/2013 graph variables | How to Read a Science Paper | Paper Reading Groups | Paper Reading Guidelines | research | science | science for lay people | science paper Feitosa-Santana

How to Read a Scientific Paper

When reading a Science Paper, we have to focus on identifying some basic informations. Therefore, we have to first understand how to identify each of them: Background: Every paper presents the scenario in the previous literature that left a door open, leading to the present study. Usually, the authors start talking about it in order […]