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...Once we got to two strikes I flipped the coin there,” Walsh said. “I figured it might put a little pressure on him [Stern...
...undergraduate in the late 1970s who sought to determine whether a person could psychically influence the outcome of an otherwise random experiment. The student sought to test the existence of this type of psychokinesis with the use of a random events generator (REG), which essentially functions as a glorified coin-tossing machine. The undergrad aimed to see if the focused thoughts of the REG’s human operator could, over the course of numerous trials, produce an unambiguously non-random outcome (i.e. more heads than tails). The students’ finding suggested a small but statistically significant difference between...
According to Scarlet McCarthy, the assistant manager of the Harvard Square store, each store has maintained its unique culture and inventory—a six-inch-tall Big Boy coin bank is one of few overlapping products in the Black Ink stores...
...answer: partial information and the rivalries of local warlords, which in Afghanistan are two sides of the same coin. The Americans have always known that Paktia province, where the fighting is taking place, is bandit country. (Ironically, the new governor of the province, and Karzai's voice there, is an American citizen: Taj Muhammad Wardak spent the past decade in Los Angeles.) Shah-i-Kot was a well-known base for the mujahedin fighting Soviet forces in the 1980s; indeed, the Soviets never took the valley. The soft shale on the ridges is ideal for the construction of caves...
Psychologists and psychiatrists may seem like two sides of the same medical coin, but there has always been one thing that separates them: the power of the prescription pad. Last week New Mexico Governor Gary Johnson leveled the field, signing a bill that makes his state the first to offer Ph.D. psychologists the same prescribing rights as M.D. psychiatrists. The move has sparked renewed debate about just who is qualified to prescribe to whom. Says Dr. Neil Arnet, an Albuquerque psychiatrist: "They got through legislation what they needed to have gotten through training and education...