A Love Letter to Single-/Double-Author Publications — More, and more, and more. Not only did the number of scientific articles skyrocket in the last few years, the number of authors per paper also steadily increased over time, making single- or double-author papers as rare as the proverbial hen’s teeth. Instead, we’ve got 15-author papers, with three shared-first…

A Story about Sugar, Bacteria, and Human Health — Biologists are intimately familiar with DNA, RNA, and proteins — three types of biological sequences that make life, as we know it, possible. Less familiar (though at least just as important) are glycans or complex carbohydrates. These chains of various sugars (or monosaccharides as they are technically called) can either…

The Counterintuitive Power of Positivity, Importance, and Depth — To journalists, stories are like freshly prepared french fries. The sooner you consume them, the better. And after a mere day, they are just soggy monstrosities that nobody wants to touch anymore. Stories need to be timely, fresh scoops immediately following major events. In fact, even if the topic itself…

The extraordinary make-up of an oh-so-ordinary food substance — Some people like it on their bread, others in their tea, cake, or even cocktail. Honey is not only versatile, it is delicious. Except to me; I’m not a huge fan of the taste of pure honey. But put it in a cocktail and I am in! Yet even if…

Counterintuitive, Episode 7 — The final Counterintuitive episode of the three-part miniseries about human nature is online! After tackling preferences & personality, we now weigh in on the debate about nature vs. nurture to find out how we become who we are. If you like this episode, be sure to check out other episodes…

Counterintuitive, Episode 6 — After the start of the three-part miniseries about human nature in the last episode, this time we return to the topic with a more intense topic: personality! More specifically, this instalment is dedicated to the question of how stable our personalities really are. You can find new episodes on Spotify…

Image Classification of Romantic Couples with PyTorch — If there is a root domain to the recent explosion in deep learning, it’s certainly computer vision, the analysis of image and video data. So it doesn’t come as a huge surprise that you try your luck with some computer vision techniques while studying deep learning. Long story short, my…

Counterintuitive, Episode 5 — It’s time for the fifth episode of Counterintuitive, the podcast that goes beyond common sense! This episode is (the first) part of a three-part series diving deep into the question of who we really are. You can find new episodes on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Stitcher, TuneIn, YouTube, or SoundCloud. Below…

Evidence-Based Policy is Bigger than You or Your Feelings — Part V — We need to talk about academics, people with higher education degrees, and anyone with enough sophistication to critically reflect upon matters of import. People that apply their brainpower to complex problems in their jobs every single day, who basically have been indoctrinated to be critical thinkers and, if you’ve ever…