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Category Archives: science
Special section in Science on reproducible research
Recently there was an issue of Science (December 2, 2011, Volume: 334, Issue: 6060) with a special section focusing on data replication and reproducibility in the sciences. It is about time that the big fish put this topic on the … Continue reading
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The magic of reality is (as of today) real: out with the mumbo-jumbo in with reasoning and logic
Today was the day that the most highly anticipated release of the year was scheduled to take place. No it’s not the new iPhone (I could not care less), or the announcement of this years Nobel laureates in Physics (which I do care about), … Continue reading
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The Magic of Reality: Finally a reason to get the iPad
I have never really understood the purpose of the iPad. Anything I would ever want to use the iPad for its little brother the iPod Touch can do equally well + it fits in your pocket. Anything the iPod Touch … Continue reading
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Do scientists have a real job?
The following conversation transpired recently at the doctor’s office, Doctor: So what do you do for a living? Me: I am a researcher at the university. Doctor: Oh, so you don’t have a real job! I am still torn about … Continue reading
Kids rattling the ivory tower of academic research
A unique and truly remarkable paper appeared in Biology Letters today. It is remarkable for several reasons but the two most striking reasons, to my mind, are that the research was performed and the paper was written by 25 school children between the … Continue reading
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Science is interesting, if you don’t agree you can **** off
The reason for being a scientist in a nut shell. Clip only suitable for adults. This is from the “Mario’s Entangled Bank” blog (http://pineda-krch.com) of Mario Pineda-Krch, a theoretical biologist at the University of Alberta.
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The sound of science
This is from the “Mario’s Entangled Bank” blog (http://pineda-krch.com) of Mario Pineda-Krch, a theoretical biologist at the University of Alberta.
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Guilty Pleasures: Give me coffee, science and song
Now the wife has gone out for the evening; The kid’s fast asleep in his bed; I head for the back room and turn out the lights, New ideas racing into my head. And I know that I ought to … Continue reading
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The benefits of doing math for a living
Notwithstanding a previous post, I love doing academic research. Until now, my main argument for why my job is so great is that I get paid to do what I love. A recent study has, however, added some unexpected icing … Continue reading
Posted in academia, jobs, math, Mathematical biology, science, statistics, theory
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Debunking nonsense à la first-grader
As a post script to my previous post about debunking nonsense “science”, here is a remarkable story hot off the blog roll. Blue Lab Coats is retelling the story of how her 6-year old daughter straightened out her class in … Continue reading
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Debunking nonsense "science" and erroneous lyrics
In his TED talk Michael Shermer, an American science writer, historian of science, founder of The Skeptics Society, and editor of its magazine Skeptic, eloquently and rapaciously debunks claims of the paranormal, fringe groups, cults, claims, pseudoscience, non-science, junk science, … Continue reading
Posted in humour, Katie Melua, Michael Shermer, physics, science, Simon Singh, TED
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One short trip for a proton, but one giant leap for mankind
history in the making – control room – no certainties – webcast – YES! – very successful – first stage – full speed – circulating beam – LHC is its own prototype – keeping a close eye – bicycles – … Continue reading
LHC First Beam Party – a blast of a party
In less than 12 hrs the first the first beam will circulate through the massive Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN taking particle physics research to a new frontier and changing our entire world view. All around the world scientists … Continue reading
Shagadelic LHC rap
The wet dream of many a science geeks is about to come true. In a few hours the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN, the world’s most powerful particle accelerator, will make its first attempt to circulate a beam (on … Continue reading
Second-guessing Nature
Here’s a great quote from the latest Nature podcast, This is a wonderfully weird and strange creature. It is not that God has a fantastic sense of humor it’s just that we scientists can not always second-guess what we will … Continue reading
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SciFoo 2008 – here I come!
Got an email the other day from Tim O’Reilly, Chris DiBona, and Timo Hannay inviting me to this years Science Foo Camp, or as they say: We’d like to invite you to join us on the weekend of August 8-10 … Continue reading
Sharing of scientific data
Open Access means that scientific data also needs to be shared. Together with a consortium of journals and scientific societies in evolutionary biology and related disciplines, NESCent and the MRC are studying attitudes and practices in data sharing among evolutionary … Continue reading
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Tagged data sharing, evolutionary biology, NASCent, Open Access, survey
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Nobel is coming to town
There are big days ahead within the scientific world. Sure I might be biased with my “Swedish heritage” and with my birthday coming up but the month of October is the true Christmas season for science geeks like me. Nobel … Continue reading
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Remembering Hiroshima and Nagasaki
A lot of really bad things happen in the world. I find that, as a scientist, one of the most upsetting things is when bad things happen to people because science is abused. Unfortunately, there are too many examples where … Continue reading
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Open-Source Science
This is not exactly new but it is still highly relevant. In the July 24, 2006 issue of the Chemical & Engineering News there is a story about a Open-Source Science project operating in true bazaar mode. The project, called … Continue reading
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How to write consistently boring papers
Many research papers are boring. There is one paper, however, that – irrespective of what one thinks of it’s scientific merits – definitely is not boring. It’s Kaj Sand-Jensen‘s paper How to write consistently boring scientific literature published earlier this … Continue reading
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Nature precedings is open!
Nature precedings has opened its doors (see previous post Nature Precedings: first research Bazaar on the block!). I was under the impression that it would open with a fanfare but they seem to have opted for a more low key … Continue reading
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