Art Chester's Blog, page 27
May 6, 2014
Robot Life & the Uncanny Valley
Science Fact: Robot life. A creepy-sounding phrase, one that gives us extra reason to be wary of technology. We previously looked at how robots can assist us, specifically as servantsor bartenders. This post looks at an interesting push-pull in how … Continue reading →
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May 1, 2014
City Crime Part 2: Size-Adjusted City Ratings
Science Fact: In Part 1 of this post we reviewed the underlying factors affecting city crime, especially violent crime. This Part 2 analyzes published crime data to derive safety ratings for U.S. cities. The FBI publishes crime data for each … Continue reading →
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April 29, 2014
City Crime Part 1: Factors Affecting Violent Crime
Science Fact: City crime is something you’d like to know about before visiting or moving to a new place. Today’s post describes the factors underlying city crime, especially violent crime. On Thursday we’ll continue by actually rating cities on their … Continue reading →
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April 24, 2014
Babies Cry to Keep You from Having Sex
Science Fact: Babies cry at night to keep their parents from having sex. Scheming babies? That’s crazy! Isn’t it? Babies do learn remarkably quickly. Japanese psychologists observed a baby as young as seven months engage in fake crying to get … Continue reading →
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April 22, 2014
Travel Fatalities by Car, Air & Ship
Science Fact: Travel fatalities are a concern to many of us who want to reduce our risk of serious accident when we travel by car, aircraft or cruise ship. This post looks at the data and the science, then gives … Continue reading →
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April 17, 2014
Prediction: Wealth, War & the World Series
Science Fact: Prediction promises us the big answers: Will the stock market hit 35,000? Who will win the World Series? Will the Russians invade Crimea? (Oh, wait, that already happened.) Prediction also offers us practical advice: You can’t tune into … Continue reading →
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April 15, 2014
Goodreads Giveaway Progress Report
Goodreads Giveawaywas the lead widget in the right margin of this website for the past month. Goodreadsis a readers’ website and they offer a great way for a book to find new readers: an author or publisher can offer one … Continue reading →
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April 10, 2014
Your Kitchen Design is Making You Fat
Science Fact: Your kitchen design is making you fat! OK, maybe with diligent effort we could make ourselves fat anyway. But scientists find that kitchen design strongly affects our eating habits. By kitchen design we mean both the physical arrangement … Continue reading →
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April 8, 2014
Flying Horses & the Lies of Art
Science Fact: The depiction of horses in paintings raises questions touching both science and art: the nature of the real world, and the way we portray it. Figurative painting– painting that is clearly derived from a real-world scene – is … Continue reading →
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April 3, 2014
GMO: Science, Antiscience & Kiwifruit
Science Fact: GMO, genetically modified organisms, are a hot topic for many people. Kiwifruit is conventionally bred – totally non-GMO – yet the growers take advantage of modern genetic technology. How can this be? It’s an interesting story of science … Continue reading →
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