Sunday, December 29, 2013

Untestable simplicity

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Cosmology has been unable to advance any further understanding of the universe for nearly a century. However, aided by fancy mathematics and...
Friday, December 20, 2013

Data loss?

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A recent report in Current Biology Indicates that a large percentage of the data, supporting scientific publications, are lost due to lack ...
Thursday, December 12, 2013

Shilling out

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A recent Nobel laureate has derided his fellow prize winner as “the catholic who has discovered that God does not exist.” He argues that hu...
Wednesday, December 4, 2013

Slow evolution

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A recent book “ The Ghosts of Evolution of Nonsensical Fruit, Missing Patterns and other Ecological Anachronisms ” points out that Avocados...
Tuesday, December 3, 2013

Leaning PISA

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Results from the recently concluded PISA (Program for International Student Assessment) test show sobering results for US teenagers, lagging...
Sunday, December 1, 2013

It is complicated

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A recent article in Nature that shows Native Americans may have arrived 24,000 years ago and they are a mixture of two distinct populations...
Friday, November 29, 2013

Free-less education

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The rise in freelance lecturers in US educational institutions is concerning from many perspectives. The first question is why this is happ...
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Sunday, November 24, 2013

Network dominance

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A recent study in the Proceedings of Royal Academy: Biological Sciences shows that the breadth and depth of one’s network are important dete...