Tag: Measuring
The Creepy Calculus of Measuring Death Risk
People are generally bad at assessing probabilities. That’s why we have irrational fears and why we overestimate our odds of winning the lottery.Whenever...
Measuring Gluons and Quarks at the Brookhaven Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider,...
Rachel Feltman: For Scientific American’s Science Quickly, this is Rachel Feltman. Today we’re taking you on another one of our Friday Fascination field...
This ‘Human Computer’ Created a System for Measuring Vast Distances in...
Attention Is Discovery, visual artist Anna Von Mertens’s thoughtful new exploration of astronomer Henrietta Swan Leavitt, describes and illuminates Leavitt’s decades-long study of...
