Science Education & Policy
- Winners Of SciVal Award Brazil 2012 Announced
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Scientific products and services company Elsevier and the Federal Coordination of Improvement of Personnel in Higher Education (Capes / MEC), today announced the winners of the second edition of SciVal Award Brazil 2012, honoring higher education and rese ...
Article - News Staff - Oct 19 2012 - 10:57am
- Guest Post: Chris Hill, Who Is Your Savior?
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I read the text below in the Facebook page of a colleague and friend, Christopher Hill. The text was meant as a facebook rant- sort of- but it raises important points. I liked what he wrote and I asked him if I could repost it here to the benefit of a lar ...
Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Nov 10 2012 - 10:09am
- In The Wake Of L'Aquila, How Should European Scientists Handle Risk Evaluations?
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In the wake of Italian scientists being sentenced for not having sufficiently warned the public about the risks of a severe earthquake of L'Aquila 2009, the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina and the French Académie des sciences have publ ...
Article - News Staff - Nov 12 2012 - 1:30pm
- Chocolate Makes You Smarter, So You Stop Reading BBC News
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UPDATE: BBC radio contacted me to let me know they corrected their mistake. I am very glad to hear that! So you can continue reading BBC after all! Probability inversion is one of the nastiest mistakes one can do handling the results of a statistical anal ...
Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Nov 23 2012 - 9:49am
- The Quote of the Week: Cohen on the NIL Hypothesis
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"[...] Given the fact that the nil hypothesis is always false, the rate of Type-I errors is 0%, not 5%, and [...] only Type-II errors can be made, which run typically at about 50% [...] [T]ypically, the sample effect size necessary for significance i ...
Blog Post - Tommaso Dorigo - Nov 20 2012 - 4:03am
- Physicists And Kung Fu Nuns
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What can Kung Fu Nuns teach CERN scientists about cosmic energy? To start with, they would have to convince CERN scientists that 'cosmic energy' actually exists, and they recently got a chance to do that when the European Organization for Nucl ...
Article - Hank Campbell - Dec 3 2012 - 9:13pm
- "Burn Notice" Wants To Give You $10K To Do Science
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A few years ago, my wife had a milestone birthday and decided she wanted to run a marathon. Now, I don't even like to drive 26 miles much less run that far- that Greek guy is famous because he died doing it and there are some experiments I don't ...
Article - Hank Campbell - Nov 28 2012 - 8:55pm
- We Can Do Math Problems And Read Phrases Unconsciously
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We can read words and phrases and even solve multi-step mathematical problems without conscious awareness, say a team of psychologists at the Hebrew University. They conducted experiments which they say constitutes a challenge to existing ideas of unconsci ...
Article - News Staff - Dec 4 2012 - 5:00am
- List Of The Best And Worst International Cities In English Proficiency
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Article - News Staff - Dec 12 2012 - 2:01pm
- Private Biotech Hates Sequestration, Too
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In a little less than three weeks, a federal budget sequestration, which would have severe consequences for agencies that fund scientific research, will take effect unless a deal can be made between Republicans and Democrats. That’s a pretty discomforting ...
Article - David Sloan - Dec 13 2012 - 2:31pm