BOO-TIFUL: Tis the season for pumpkin carving. Nice that NASA has us covered in that department. I mean, who wouldn't want to carve their very own James Webb Space Telescope-themed pumpkin?
There are three different patterns you can choose from, with varying degrees of difficulty. Created by Leah Hustak, you can find them here: https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/13416
Annabelle's participation in InkTober is coming to a close. Here are a couple of her most recent drawings. This one had a prompt of "ride."
CHECK YOURSELF: As part of CJ's psychology class this week, we learned about Project Implicit, "a non-profit organization and international collaboration between researchers who are interested in implicit social cognition - thoughts and feelings outside of conscious awareness and control," per their website description. "The goal of the organization is to educate the public about hidden biases and to provide a 'virtual laboratory' for collecting data on the Internet," they explain.
The site has a number of different assessments you can take to help identify your hidden biases. They include everything from religion to skin tone to weight to gender and more. After taking the assessment, you receive a result, along with info about what that result means.
I took a test on religion. It involved pressing one of two computer keys when words or symbols appeared on the screen. I was somewhat surprised at the results, and would really like to read more about their methodology and assessment models they before I became a believer in their validity. It is an interesting concept, and definitely worthwhile if there's scientific merit to it.
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