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Tweets
- NYT: "I would advise our readers to be good Bayesian thinkers..." As if we could be otherwise...? http://t.co/rLBUh1ib 1 hr ago
- RT @lizlosh: "If you don't know your state variables you don't know yourself" and calls to "occupy health" #futurehealthsd #quantifiedself 18 hrs ago
- Were I still a student, or pre-tenure, I would so be at the Summer Research Institute for the Science of STS: http://t.co/Vhc2cCi2 18 hrs ago
- Can't be real: http://t.co/98gVZNvA 1 day ago
- Here at Security Concepts, we're predicting the end of crime in Old Detroit within 40 days. There's a new guy in town. http://t.co/7uT6EQCR 1 day ago
- @eknight I have a bad feeling about this. 1 day ago
- If only all car commercials were this good... http://t.co/lGc8HBud #fb 3 days ago
- More updates...
Archives
Monthly Archives: March 2005
SA Gives Up?
Scientific American recognizes the elitism of science, and concedes to necessity of fair and balanced journalism: Get ready for a new Scientific American. No more discussions of how science should inform policy. If the government commits blindly to building an anti-ICBM defense system that can’t work as promised, that will waste tens of billions of [...]
UB Law Library in Exile
Thanks to a small fire in the Law School, the law library has a long path of cleanup (mostly soot), which means a lot of unhappy law students. My partner, Jamie, who is the executive editor for the Buffalo Law Review, is especially unexcited about the prospect of checking citations on submitted articles, one of [...]
Development and science
I was shocked to hear that in Iran movie theaters — even those in science museums — refuse to show scientific documentaries that clash with fundamentalist religious doctrine. While there is much to be appreciated in religious culture and custom, it is unfortunate when one of God’s greatest gifts, the ability to reason, is thrown [...]
Steamboy
Went to see Steamboy yesterday. (And yes, this has become a movie mini-review site.) I won’t say it was terrible, but it was disappointing. It may be that old nemessis: overly high expectations. If I could just convince myself to go to movies with very low expectations, I’d probably enjoy more of them. The reason [...]
New favorite
I now desperately want one of these: the ecomobile, a kevlar coated BMW motorcycle. Even Jamie is almost sold. (I’ve been banned from owning or riding a motocycle since my accident a decade ago.) Unfortunately, I grossly underestimated how much it costs to acquire one of these beauties. Not to put too fine a point [...]
Pod-A
Andrew Cline (Rhetorica) presents a challenge to his students: produce a podcast in a period of several hours, and get an A in the course. Cool idea, but it raises the question: does it have to be good? At least I know that would be the question students here would ask. It’s a question of [...]
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