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☆ This simple brain trick can help you make better decisions, says neuroscientist: 'It has a huge effect on your performance'
▼ + stars: | 2024-10-09 | by ( Megan Sauer | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +2 min

It's harder to answer questions or solve problems when you're asked to choose between more than four solutions, research shows. Neuroscientist Paul Glimcher has a simple strategy to cut through the noise and consistently make smart decisions: Instead of trying to pick the best choice, start by picking the worst. Process of elimination isn't exactly a new concept — you might have learned about it in elementary school — but it can help you avoid mistakes and improve your accuracy making everyday decisions, Glimcher said. "We're just good at the binary choice task — pick your best and eliminate your worst," Glimcher added. That's because picking from fewer options can help us make more accurate decisions, said Glimcher.

Persons: Paul Glimcher, Glimcher Organizations: New York University, Fast, CNBC

Allegations of research fakery at a leading cancer center have turned a spotlight on scientific integrity and the amateur sleuths uncovering image manipulation in published research. The blogger, 32-year-old Sholto David, of Pontypridd, Wales, is a scientist-sleuth who detects cut-and-paste image manipulation in published scientific papers. By Jan. 22, the institution said it was in the process of requesting six retractions of published research and that another 31 papers warranted corrections. The sleuths download scientific papers and use software tools to help find problems. Some journals told the AP they are aware of the concerns raised by David's blog post and were looking into the matter.

Persons: Jan, David, He's, Farber, DANA, FARBER, Sholto David, Dana, Laurie Glimcher, William Hahn, sleuths, Claudine Gay, Barrett Rollins, Elisabeth Bik, ” Bik, Ivan Oransky, Oransky, “, ” Oransky, —, ” They're, Bik Organizations: Dana, Farber Cancer Institute, Harvard Medical School, The Harvard Crimson, WHO, Associated Press, American Society for Microbiology, Technology, New York University, “, AP, Associated Press Health, Science Department, Howard Hughes Medical Institute’s Science, Educational Media Group Locations: British, Pontypridd, Wales, PubPeer, California

☆ Harvard cancer institute moves to retract six studies, correct 31 others amid data manipulation claims
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-22 | by ( Matt Egan | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +2 min

CNN —The Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, a prestigious Harvard teaching school, is moving to retract six studies and correct 31 others following allegations of data manipulation. The steps by the Harvard Medical School affiliate come after a molecular biologist published a blog post earlier this month alleging researchers falsified data by manipulating images. More than 50 papers are part of the ongoing review by Dana-Farber into four researchers, all of whom have faculty appointments at Harvard Medical School. Earlier this month, Sholto David published a blog post titled “Dana-Farberications at Harvard University,” alleging researchers at the cancer institute manipulated images and data. According to Rollins, Dana-Farber said it was already reviewing “potential data errors” in multiple cases that the blog listed and stressed that the issues uncovered do not necessarily amount to misconduct.

Persons: Dana, Farber, Laurie Glimcher, ” Barrett Rollins, “ Dana, Rollins, Claudine Gay, Gay, ”, Sholto David, Farberications, David, ” Rollins Organizations: CNN, Farber Cancer Institute, Harvard, Harvard Medical School, Dana, Ivy League, ” Harvard, Harvard University, Photoshop

NEW YORK (AP) — He was a giant of 20th-century art, but that doesn’t mean Pablo Picasso needed a big canvas. It was 1918 and Picasso, then in his mid-30s, had just married ballet dancer Olga Khokhlova. The exhibit, which opened Friday, is a collaboration with the Madrid foundation run by a grandson of Picasso’s, Bernard Ruiz-Picasso. It comes nearly 40 years after the gallery’s initial 1986 show of Picasso sketchbooks, called “Je Suis le Cahier (I am the Sketchbook)" after a notation Picasso made on one of his pads — which subsequently toured the globe. The Pace Gallery show runs until December 22..

Persons: Pablo Picasso, “ Picasso, Picasso, Olga Khokhlova, Picasso’s, Bernard Ruiz, Marie, Thérèse Walter, ”, Marc Glimcher, Glimcher, Dora Maar, Ruiz, Paul Picasso, ” Ruiz, “ Organizations: Pace, “ Locations: “, balmy Biarritz, Madrid, —, New York, France, Juan, Mougins

☆ Robert Irwin, Artist of Fleeting Light and Space, Is Dead at 95
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-25 | by ( Jori Finkel | More About Jori Finkel | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Robert Irwin, a Southern California artist associated with the Light and Space movement of the 1960s, who early on stopped making paintings in favor of creating ephemeral and sometimes intangible art environments, died on Wednesday in the La Jolla section of San Diego. His death, at Scripps Memorial Hospital, was caused by heart failure, said Arne Glimcher, the founder and chairman of the international Pace Gallery, which has shown Mr. Irwin’s work since 1966. Mr. Irwin lived in San Diego. Within the contemporary art world, Mr. Irwin’s work on human attention and perception — he called it, with a nod to scientific research, an “inquiry” into perception — was highly influential; he won a MacArthur “genius” award in 1984. The work was not highly visible to the public, however.

Persons: Robert Irwin, Arne Glimcher, Irwin’s, Irwin, — Organizations: Scripps Memorial Hospital, Pace Gallery, MacArthur Locations: Southern California, Jolla, San Diego, Venice

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