Wednesday linkfest
Here are these week’s links:
- Designing for panic – (hat tip d&i daily)
- The science of expectations –
- How to use an apostrophe –
- How to train the aging brain –
- Stat’s for fiction rejections – An agent tallies up her reasons for rejecting manuscripts.
There’s a small irony between you linking the “How to use an apostrophe” and “Stat’s for fiction rejection” articles in the same post. :) Fixed now, thanks.
Jeff: As I said in the post, I get this wrong but not for the reasons people assume. There’s knowing the rule, and then reviewing to make sure its followed :)
Experimental science is addicting in large part because it provides intermediate variable rewards, where the rewards are interesting experimental results. You do tons of experiments and get nothing, and then once in a while–with unpredictable timing–you hit something incredible.