Articles by Gary Herstein

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The Thirty Meter Telescope May Be Cancelled Not by Ordinary People's Protest, but by Wealthy People's Whim

Astronomy, it seems, finds itself at the mercy of political caprice and economic machinations yet again. The Thirty Meter Telescope (TMT), once poised to revolutionize observational astronomy from…

Distance Learning Doesn't Teach People To Think

The modern research university was designed to produce new knowledge and to pass that knowledge on to students. North American universities over the last 100 years have been exceptionally good at…

Pareidolia: We're Secretly Judging Face Likeness

If you have seen a face in the clouds or you have been part of a phenomenon called "pareidolia" - a willingness to recognize a non-face object as a human face.

INPI - a treasure trove of French inventions

INPI - a treasure trove of French inventions Do you have French ancestors? Perhaps, somewhere in the archives, is a patent for something your ancestor invented.