In 2005 Psychological Science, the flagship journal of the Association for Psychological Science, began their current practice of asking contributors to compute the statistic prep in lieu of the traditional p-value. In a polemic comprising five Fits we argue that prep is misnamed, commonly miscalculated, misapplied outside a narrow scope, and its large variability often produces values that inv...

A significant increase in Big Data has triggered the need for joint computation, where people or organizations cooperatively exchange private inputs in order to conduct various computational tasks. These tasks can vary in wide range and occur between untrusted entities. As an example, case of competitor organizations working together for some project with need to jointly share some private data...

Over the past 15 years, an extensive program of high energy nuclear collisions at BNL and CERN was devoted to the experimental search for the quark-gluon plasma predicted by QCD. The start of RHIC this year will increase the highest available collision energy by a factor 10. This seems a good time for a critical assessment: what have we learned so far and what can we hope to learn in the coming...

There have been frequent suggestions over the last few years that a national inpatient drug chart is needed for the UK NHS. Here we draw on The Hunting of the Snark, Lewis Caroll’s nonsense poem, described by Caroll as ‘An Agony, in Eight Fits’, to critique this movement, where Agony is used ‘in the old sense of a struggle that involves great anguish, bodily pain or death.’ In most UK hospitals...

A significant increase in Big Data has triggered the need for joint computation, where people or organizations cooperatively exchange private inputs in order to conduct various computational tasks. These tasks can vary in wide range and occur between untrusted entities. As an example, case of competitor organizations working together for some project with need to jointly share some private data...

I'm sitting in the bishop's office. My dress is slightly damp, but I can't determine whether moisture a result of snowstorm or sweat beading beneath cotton. haven't eaten since yesterday, so vomit, churning my stomach wants to prove otherwise.The bishop has questions memorized. He's looking me straight eye. “Do you keep law chastity?”“Well.” take breath. speak fast, quirk that's magnified when ...

Neuroscientists have long studied species with convenient biological features to discover how behavior emerges from conserved molecular, neural, and circuit level processes. With the advent of new tools, viral vectors gene editing automated behavioral analyses, there has been a recent wave interest in developing new, “nontraditional” model species. Here, we advocate for complementary approach d...