metascience

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Latest blogosphere posts tagged “metascience”

• Metascience: The Convergence of Science and Religion

  
  Minding the Planet — Authority: 467
  (DRAFT 7. Work-In-Progress) What is the universe and where does it come from? There are two major schools of thought on this question: Science: One is modern-day science, which takes the position...
  1 week ago

• Metascience: The Convergence of Science and Religion

  
  Minding the Planet — Authority: 467
  (DRAFT 7. Work-In-Progress) What is the universe and where does it come from? There are two major schools of thought on this question: Science: One is modern-day science, which takes the position...
  1 week ago

• Online papers

  
  john hawks weblog — Authority: 533
  A propos to the "open access" theme, reader Bram Hessels writes in with a link to his "People with Online Paleoanthropology Papers" page.
  2 weeks ago

• Colloquia and opera

  
  john hawks weblog — Authority: 533
  Have department colloquia lost their relevance to academic life ? this is something like the Pavarotti Effect of greater global connectedness: local opera singers are going to go out of business because consumers would rather listen to a CD of Pavarotti. Its only after it becomes cheap to find the Pavarottis and ...
  2 weeks ago

• Dawkins and Hewitt

  
  john hawks weblog — Authority: 533
  I want to point to an interview between conservative radio host Hugh Hewitt and Richard Dawkins , on the subject of Dawkins new book, The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution . Hewitt is a practicing Catholic and lawyer, as well as a Stephen Jay Gould undergraduate student, and by no means hostile to ...
  3 weeks ago

• Anonymous research subjects

  
  john hawks weblog — Authority: 533
  New frontiers in human research subjects: PARC researcher Markus Jacobsson describes how to find anonymous research subjects via Amazons "Mechanical Turk" service . Mechanical Turk is a virtual marketplace that pays people to perform tasks that software cant easily automate. People earn a few pennies for each ...
  3 weeks ago

• Science sensationalism

  
  john hawks weblog — Authority: 533
  Backreaction: "Science, Writers, and the Public - A bizarre love triangle" : I meant to simply ignore the whole issue, for I find it quite bizarre. A major daily newspaper reports on an article that hardly anybody in the community cares about [the crazy Higgs-reality-distortion paper], and thereby promotes it to ...
  4 weeks ago

• Whos your favorite hominin now?

  
  john hawks weblog — Authority: 533
  A couple of weeks ago I gave some Google Trends statistics on search terms for fossil hominins. The winner then was "erectus", with "Neanderthal" coming in a close second. "Erectus" has an unusually strong search volume in Spanish, but I cant find an obvious non-paleoanthropological focus for it other than porn. ...
  4 weeks ago

• Whoa, who stole the data?

  
  john hawks weblog — Authority: 533
  OK, as you know I do this thing where I read the supplementary information in papers. I hate doing it; think they should put the stuff in the actual paper where it belongs, but well, thats life, right? Sooooo...Im reading through the 73 pages of Supplementary Information for the Ardipithecus dental paper... ...
  5 weeks ago

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