eliswanson.com
Chocolate causes you to lose weight. Or does it? | Eli Swanson
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Chocolate causes you to lose weight. Or does it? May 28, 2015. So, this person. Who made a bunch of open access journals look like the fools they are. A while back (turns out most don’t actually do peer review – whoops! Just posted about a more recent sting, this time on the science media. Basically, they carried out a study that showed chocolate helps you lose weight, and reported it as such. It was then spread far and wide for obvious reasons. Turns out it was a crappy study, on purpose. Hmm So, clearl...
culturomics.org
News - Culturomics
http://www.culturomics.org/cultural-observatory-at-harvard/news
Culturomics appears on the cover. The image is a photograph from Idiom, a sculpture from Matej Kr é. Currently showing in Prague. And our own Adrian Veres create a measure of scientific fame, and introduce the Science Hall of Fame. Bohannon, Veres and Feinberg (Google) visualize famous scientist over time in this music video. First publication on culturomics appears in Science. Job opportunities at the Cultural Observatory.
bikexus.blogspot.com
Journey of a Lifetime: April 2010
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Journey of a Lifetime. 2010, I will bike across America. Saturday, April 24, 2010. Family Came, Family Left. My family arrived at the JFK Airport. We first took a train to Washington D.C. and spent a weekend there. Here are two pictures of the Washington Monument. And Vietnam Veterans Memorial Wall. The left picture was taken with my 10.5mm fisheye lens. The right picture was taken with my 18-200mm kit lens. It was heavily photoshopped (using Apple Aperture. Of course, we got a picture of the John Harvar...
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Who is afraid of Peer review: Sting Operation of The Science: Some analysis of the metadata | scholarlyoadisq
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Discussion on scholarlyoa.com. Directory of Open Access Journals. Who is afraid of Peer review: Sting Operation of The Science: Some analysis of the metadata. October 9, 2013. Short link to this post: http:/ wp.me/p3eOrO-Z. Science has published a news article. About the apparent lack of proper peer-review. At many open access journals. Concocted a spoof paper with scientific problems, which ended up to be accepted in 157 out of 304 open access journals. OASPA clearly pointed. I also agree that:. He used...
genereporter.blogspot.com
Gene Repórter: Bomba de chocolate: a comunicação científica ética
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Participe da votação sobre os melhores canais. De divulgação científica em português na internet. Quinta-feira, 28 de maio de 2015. Bomba de chocolate: a comunicação científica ética. O biólogo e jornalista John Bohannon. Criador do " Dance your PhD. E autor de um experimento de submissão de artigo falso para vários periódicos de acesso aberto. Parece ter aprontado mais uma. Em um artigo no site io9 " I fooled millions into thinking chocolate helps weight loss. Here' how. Na Folha saiu na seção F5. Conté...
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Featured data | Dryad news and views
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Dryad news and views. Dryad updates and goings on. Archive for the ‘Featured data’ Category. Making open data useful: A drug safety case study. Posted in Data availability. On 2016/07/12 Leave a Comment. We’re pleased to present a guest post from data scientist Juan M. Banda. The lead author of an important, newly-available resource for drug safety research. Here, Juan shares some of the context behind the data descriptor in Scientific Data. And associated data package in Dryad. In the same spirit, our p...
kalamazooacs.org
KACS - Chemistry and Culture: Elements of Dance
http://www.kalamazooacs.org/event/2013/11/01/elements-of-dance.html
Kalamazoo Section of the American Chemical Society. We are a dynamic and visionary organization committed to improving people’s lives in our community through the transforming power of chemistry. We strive to advance the broader chemistry enterprise and its practitioners for the benefit of Kalamazoo, Allegan and Van Buren counties. Chemistry and Culture: Elements of Dance. Friday 01 November 2013. Kalamazoo Institute of Arts. 314 S Park St. 19:00 - Check-in, refreshment and open dance. There will be show...
igrology-ru.livejournal.com
«Игрология»
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От виртуальных подарков к торговле сквозь границы миров. Авг 8, 2008 01:08 pm. Не только повод для массовой потребительской истерии, но и новая платформа для микротранзакций. Viximo. Стартап, специализирующийся на производстве виртуальных товаров, готовится обеспечить владельцам новой игрушки возможность дарить виртуальные подарки, позаимствовав эту идею из Facebook. И пересылать при помощи текстовых сообщений. Перфоманс в стиле киберпанк. Июл 16, 2008 09:35 am. Виртуальная личность, резидент Second.
genereporter.blogspot.com
Gene Repórter: Maio 2015
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Participe da votação sobre os melhores canais. De divulgação científica em português na internet. Quinta-feira, 28 de maio de 2015. Bomba de chocolate: a comunicação científica ética. O biólogo e jornalista John Bohannon. Criador do " Dance your PhD. E autor de um experimento de submissão de artigo falso para vários periódicos de acesso aberto. Parece ter aprontado mais uma. Em um artigo no site io9 " I fooled millions into thinking chocolate helps weight loss. Here' how. Na Folha saiu na seção F5. Conté...
