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At least they’re admitting it
Here's the problem. You are a scientist, working on measuring the levels of aragonite in ocean water. It's not very sexy and nobody beyond a small cadre seems to care.…
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Lizards all male climate change club
Nature magazine reports this headline: Condemned to single-sex life by climate change. They are talking about a species of lizards called tuatara that live "on about 30 small islands in…
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I wish I was making this up
Another piece of data is in that shows money does not correlate with intelligence. "Artist" Martin Creed (pictured above) created a "work" called 850, which he will exhibit at the…
Posted inPhilosophy
Wired’s theory: the end of theory
Chris Anderson, over at Wired magazine, has written an article called The End of Theory: The Data Deluge Makes the Scientific Method Obsolete. Anderson, whose thesis is that we no…
IMS: Citation Indexes Stink
The Institute of Mathematical Statistics (I am a member) has issued a report on the wide-spread misuse of Citation Statistics. The full report may be found here. The non-surprising main…
Posted inPhilosophy
Variant on a theme
We, dear readers, have earlier dealt with the nonsensical argument, of which an Enlightened few are excessively fond, "There is no truth." This is an argument often employed by those…
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Ithaca update: hours and dogs as presidential candidates
The Ithaca Hours, mentioned in the previous post, quantify a barter system, trading "hours worked" at one task for equivalent "hours worked" at another. For example, you might trade one…
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But you must hate us!
I am in Ithaca, New York, teaching a short course at Cornell University. Have you ever visited Ithaca? It was once voted the "most enlightened city in America" by the…