Science Square (Issue 135)
Nose cells as the key COVID-19 entry point Sungnak et al. SARS-CoV-2 entry factors are highly expressed in…
Decision
10 articles
Thinking Fast, Thinking Slow, and Thinking Together
Decision-making is a cognitive process that constantly runs in the background of our minds, resulting in choices made…
Progress or Fallacy in Inferring
New developments in scientific thought and hypotheses testing are changing the ways we think about truth and certainty.…
Thoughts on Science of Forecasting
Making predictions is an active form of decision-making people do all the time mostly without even being aware.…
Captain Bell’s Rescue
“Captain Bell, there’s something burning in the distance…take a look.” “Lieutenant, they’re stranded Vietnamese boat people and there…
Qast and Azm (Decision And Resolution)
Qast means confidence, determination, choosing, and advancing straight toward a destination, thinking and reasoning moderately and deliberately, and…
Life
A documentary released in June depicted an assisted suicide. The man on the show was a millionaire, and…
The Anchoring Effect How Our Prior Knowledge Affects Our Perception
Evaluations and decisions play an important role in our social life. As we want our evaluations to be…
A Caspian Pipeline Decision
During the last 5 years, there has been-and still is-an ongoing debate on how to exploit oil and…
Euthanasia: Mercy or Murder?
Euthanasia is one of the most widely discussed issues among health care professionals as well as ordinary people.…