the Evil Line

As a wannabe scientist, one of the sites I visit is PlosOne, a peer-reviewed, open access journal with the lofty and probably hopeless goal of becoming a Science or Nature without the subscription costs. Mostly they publish stuff about renal fibroblasts, but two of their recent articles caught my eye.

This one claims to show that sugar is more addictive than cocaine, at least for rats.

And this one explores how much word recognition relies on context, gestalt recognition of the whole word, or piecing together the letters.