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Siler, whose work was published in December in the online edition of the Journal of Gambling Studies and will appear later this year in the print edition, was not interested in poker alone but in the larger idea of how humans handle risk, reward and variable payoffs. Few things offer a better way of quantifying that than gambling - and few gambling dens offer a richer pool of data than the Internet, where millions of people can play at once and transactions are easy to observe and record. (See 10 things to do in Las Vegas...
...food every day for each of us to consume 3,800 calories, never mind that we need only about 2,350 for a healthy diet), and there was no place for the needle on the scale to go but up. Now, according to a study just released by the Journal of the American Medical Association, our long national binge may at last be coming to an end. (See the top 10 new diet books...
...reserved for the British press, whom he holds responsible for stirring up controversy over two dossiers published to strengthen the case for taking action against Saddam. "Evidence" in the second dossier, published in February 2003, turned out to have been plagiarized from an article in a Middle Eastern journal. But it was the first dossier, presented as intelligence information about Saddam's weapons capability and distributed to members of the press in September 2002, that still poisons relations between the British political classes and the journalists that cover them. (See pictures of Tony Blair's friendship with George W. Bush...
...problem," admits Mordecai-Mark Mac Low, an astronomer at New York's American Museum of Natural History. Or, rather, it was a problem - but Mac Low and his collaborators may have solved it. In a paper recently submitted to the Astrophysical Journal, they say that the old, Earth-destroying theory was generally accurate but lacked some key details - ones that both reshape theories about how planets form and, oh yes, allow the planet we know best to exist. (See an illustrated history of Earth...
...study—funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation—was published Tuesday in the journal Health Affairs...