People with particularly deadly forms of cancer can become desperate enough to self-experiment with non-approved drugs. Their ad hoc treatments can range in quality to random application or sometimes in concert with others trying the same thing, experiments with more value. New Scientist investigated a group of DCA self experimenters. In March 2007 they first…
My nephew sings happy birthday while washing his hands, a trick his mother taught him to keep him focused for at least ten seconds while cleaning up. Measuring elapsed seconds is one of the simplest techniques of self-regulation, but not so simple that an inventor named Charles T. Collopy didn’t try to patent a device…
This free, charming, how-to site tells you simply and frankly how to do your own statistical analysis, complete with an odd-sweater-wearing mathematician to take you through the necessary Excel menus. The ultimate in geeky how-to for anybody who wants to be able to ask some basic analytical questions for themselves. Why take it on faith?…
