Month: April 2010

The April 24, 2010 issue of Science News has an interesting article entitled "Gambling on Experience" which reports on research into how we (people) guestimate risk in real life. I call it interesting both because it is an interesting social question, but also because of a recent dialogue about the topic of cell phones and …

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 This year’s festival is the first week of June, more information here: http://www.worldsciencefestival.com/

We’ll be hosting a stargazing evening again at Shore Road Park on the ballfields near the 76th Street park entrance. See the map below for the viewing location. Sunset is not until nearly 7:15 pm, and it won’t be truly dark (well, as dark as it gets in NYC) until after 8:30 pm, but we’ll start around …

TV-Turnoff Week StargazingRead More