Behavioral science, engineering, and poetry revisited.

Bertrand’s Paradox Revisited: More Lessons about that Ambiguous Word, Random

The Bertrand paradox question is: “Consider a unit-radius circle for which the length of a side of an inscribed equilateral triangle equals 3 . Determine the probability that the length of a ‘random’ chord of a unit-radius circle has length greater than 3 .” Bertrand derived three different ‘correct’ answers, the correctness depending on interpretation of the word, random. Here we employ geomet...

Creative Expression of Science through Poetry and Other Media can Enrich Medical and Science Education

INTRODUCTION Creative expression of scientific observations and principles through poetry and other media can enrich medical and science education. This debunks the expectation that science and poetry, for example, are mutually exclusive (Figure 1). Instead of coexisting as parallel lanes without interaction, poetry and science can cross over as one merges lanes. Kurtz and Loewenstein suggest t...

The Future of NSF Advanced Computing Infrastructure Revisited

The Computation of Poetry

i was using had a chatty, helpful compiler that told me where the bug was and what was wrong—sort of. the trouble was that even when i printed the code and stared at the recalcitrant line, the bug remained hidden. in the end, i finally saw my error: i’d spelled “goto” with two zeros instead of two os. the characters are next to each other on the keyboard, and when printed, they looked almost id...

DDH Epidemiology Revisited: Do We Need New Strategies?

Background: Although the developmental dysplasia of the hip (DDH) is well known to pediatric orthopedists, its etiology has still remained unknown and despite dedication of a vast majority of research, the results are still inadequate and confusing. The exact incidence of DDH and its relationship with known risk factors in Iran is still unknown. Here we represent the results of one year study o...