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.
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 […]