Beauty is valuable. There is ample published research to back up the researchers’ belief that they could publish their research. An eye-catching, tidily-summed-up collection of that research appears in the “Beauty Value Research Review” that is part of AIR‘s Special Beauty Issue. Read it here.
Month: March 2004
AIR Teachers’ Guide
Three out of five teachers agree: curiosity is a dangerous thing, especially in students. If you are one of the other two teachers, AIR and mini-AIR can be powerful tools. Choose your favorite hAIR-raising article and give copies to your students. The approach is simple. The scientist thinks that he (or she, or whatever), of […]
Whitehead Cafeteria Review
Old food lingers on, in the memory and in print. AIR publishes a reviews of cafeterias at the world’s great research institutions. In 1996 our reviewer Stephen Drew visited the Whitehead Institute, where he encountered a meal. Read about it here.
Little Old People
When a Japanese scientist examined rocks under a microscope, he saw evidence that all modern living creatures are descended from teeny-tiny organisms very like the big ones we see (and are) today. He gave a name to these extinct ancestral species. He called them “mini-creatures.” … So begins this week’s Improbable Research column in The […]