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I've heard of pay-to-play journals, but this is not what I imagined.

I've heard of pay-to-play journals, but this is not what I imagined.

Inspired by the work of Ivo Busko (preprint: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2603.20407 and code repository: https://github.com/cuernodegazpacho/plateanalysis), I started experimenting with morphology-based filtering. See...

I've heard of pay-to-play journals, but this is not what I imagined.

I've heard of pay-to-play journals, but this is not what I imagined.

That might be an artefact of the authors not being native English speakers, and some of the terminology they use having been adopted in decades and cultures that weren't so PC.

I liked your post, but there's a small caveat: did the particular IQ test measure all the skills in which any given individual might excel? I don't think that concern matters very much in this statistical analysis, but IQ tests are not infallible...

I've heard of pay-to-play journals, but this is not what I imagined.

I'm perturbed by the concept of "the region of the sky opposite the Sun". An atttempt to imbue that with meaning might interpret that as a weird way of saying in the direction of the L2 point, but that makes no sense as the source of meteors.

I dislike the author's phrasing. Whatever you accomplish in life, you are "non-gifted" if you have an average IQ. Instead of "gifted and non-gifted adults" they could have said (e.g.) "adults with IQ ≥ 130 and adults with IQ ≈ 100".

The original plates should exist - or at least many of them - and the last known location is Palomar: About half of the large photographic glass plate negatives exposed on the telescope, some 19,000 in all, had been accumulating in the...

Not if the UFOs arrive a day before the test, something the authors counted as hits.

Inspired by the work of Ivo Busko (preprint: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2603.20407 and code repository: https://github.com/cuernodegazpacho/plateanalysis), I started experimenting with morphology-based filtering. See...

The original plates should exist - or at least many of them - and the last known location is Palomar: About half of the large photographic glass plate negatives exposed on the telescope, some 19,000 in all, had been accumulating in the...

We apparently may be (or have recently been) in a new shower as well, M2025-F1 discovered last March. Between March 18-22, 2025, a new meteor shower from the constellation of Puppis was discovered by cameras of the Global Meteor Network. It is...