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Science-as-utopia
3 mentions — 19 hours ago
One thing that I used to think was science was above all these social issues we’ve been discussing… I thought science transcended all of this identity politics…There are people that believe science is above all the bullshit. Because science is facts and reason and shit, so scientists are ...
Why I retracted my Nature paper: A guest post from David Vaux about correcting the scientific record
Retraction Watch on WordPress.com
5 mentions — 21 hours ago
Last month, Ivan met David Vaux at the 3rd World Conference on Research Integrity in Montreal. David mentioned a retraction he published in Nature, and we thought it would be a great guest post on what it’s like to retract one of your own papers in an attempt ...
Dinosaurs on Mars
Phenomena: Laelaps
2 mentions — 21 hours ago
I’ve never been to Mars, but I’ve been close. From my Salt Lake City home, the journey takes a relatively scant four and a half hours – through the smoggy sprawl of the valley and over lonely highways pocked here and there by small Utah farming towns before ...
Open Access inaction
guardian.co.uk
3 mentions — 2 days ago
Like many academics, I am currently trying to work out what I should think and do about Open Access. I share with many scientists strong personal commitments to the idea of openness. I am in this game because I think research is valuable, and I work at a ...
» Teenage Pregnancy: 10 Tips for Telling Your Parents - World of Psychology
World of Psychology
2 mentions — 11 hours ago
Yep, you’re 16 and pregnant. You didn’t plan it. You thought you’d taken precautions but you’re pregnant. Oh boy, now what?For some teenagers this may be a happy moment, yet for others it can seem like the world is about to end. The future you thought was unfolding ...
Colorado marijuana dispensary owner, 11 others indicted on 71 charges
The Denver Post
2 mentions — 16 hours ago
A Colorado grand jury has indicted 12 people on allegations that they ran three medical-marijuana dispensaries as a front for an investment scam and an illegal marijuana-growing operation.Among those named in the indictment are the dispensaries' owner, several of his business partners, a marijuana-grower, a lawyer and a ...
Beautiful strange and rare cloud formations (23 pictures)
memolition
2 mentions — 6 days ago
Various cloud formations might be one of the most beautiful and romantic sights in nature, but these masses of liquid droplets is also a complex and scientifically interesting phenomena.Even though different cloud formations might seem random and indescribable to you, there’s a whole cloud classification system that’s uniform ...
News from The Associated Press
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2 mentions — 19 hours ago
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Why Naked Mole Rats Don’t Get Cancer
Phenomena: Not Exactly Rocket Science
2 mentions — 17 hours ago
The problem with writing about the naked mole rat is the long list of bizarre traits that you don’t have space to talk about. For this post, let’sforget that they look like a wrinkled finger with teeth. Put aside their inability to feel pain in their skin, their ...
» FDA Investigating 2 Deaths After Zyprexa Injections for Schizophrenia - Psych Central News
Psych Central News
2 mentions — 2 days ago
Long-acting antipsychotic Zyprexa Relprevv (olanzapine pamoate) is under scrutiny after the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) turned up two deaths following the injection of the drug. Zyprexa Relprevv (olanzapine pamoate) is manufactured by Eli Lilly and first approved for use in the United States in 1996. It ...
» Project ECHO: Can We Teach Physicians to Better Diagnose Mental Disorders? - World of Psychology
World of Psychology
2 mentions — 1 day ago
I’m conflicted about the announcement of Project ECHO’s expansion last week. The ECHO Institute was founded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, the GE Foundation and the University of New Mexico Health Sciences Center to help primary care physicians do a better job with common, chronic condition diagnosis ...
Viewpoint: Defining Obesity as a Disease May Do More Harm Than Good | TIME.com
TIME.com
4 mentions — 15 hours ago
The label is supposed to improve awareness and treatments for the condition, but similar proclamations about alcoholism and other addictions haven’t been so successful. Rejecting the advice of one of its own committees, physicians at the American Medical Association (AMA) will now classify obesity, which affects about one-third ...
» Melancholy, Mania & Miracles: My Journey With Bipolar Disorder - Psych Central
Psych Central
2 mentions — 15 hours ago
I picked up this book because I have bipolar disorder and I wondered how similar or different her story is to mine. Shortly after the book came in the mail, I had surgery and my best ferret friend died. This book sat on my desk for five weeks,
» 3 Key Mindfulness Practices for Calm, Self-Compassion and Happiness - Mindfulness and Psychotherapy
Mindfulness and Psychotherapy
2 mentions — 18 hours ago
When it comes to mindfulness, there are a number of great short practices that help us be more present to our lives. In this post I’m going to reveal three key mindfulness practices that can help us pause, break out of auto-pilot, step into emotional freedom and even ...
» Free Webinar: Cultivate Empowering Beliefs & How to End Self-Sabotage - World of Psychology
World of Psychology
2 mentions — 3 days ago
Save the date for our latest free webinar, to be held next Monday, June 24: Cultivate Empowering Beliefs – How to Create Personal Freedom and End Self-Sabotage.If you tend to sabotage your plans in life, it is likely because of personally held, but conflicting beliefs.Conflicted beliefs manifest conflicted ...
38 Wonderful Foreign Words We Could Use in English
Mental Floss
2 mentions — 18 hours ago
Sometimes we must turn to other languages to find le mot juste. Here are a whole bunch of foreign words with no direct English equivalent.2. Shemomedjamo (Georgian) You know when you’re really full, but your meal is just so delicious, you can’t stop eating it? The Georgians feel ...
Applause is a 'social contagion'
BBC News
3 mentions — 1 day ago
The quality of a performance does not drive the amount of applause an audience gives, a study suggests.Instead scientists have found that clapping is contagious, and the length of an ovation is influenced by how other members of the crowd behave.They say it takes a few people to ...
Negative data
The Upturned Microscope on WordPress.com
2 mentions — 22 hours ago
Really nice illustration of a crucial problem. I included your figure on my blog Trockeneisbombe (trockeneisbombe.wordpress.com). Also shows what a newbie I still am; no idea how to include a link a comment Glad we got to include this in our tweets this week! And remember, F1000Research is ...
Can This Simple Trick Stop Athletes Choking Under Pressure?
spring.org.uk
2 mentions — 14 hours ago
It's fascinating to watch the rituals professional athletes go through to cope with the unbelievably weird situation they find themselves in.They have to perform precise physical actions, demanding great concentration, all with millions of people watching them, both right there, and on TV.For those who have never played ...
BishopBlog: Interpreting unexpected significant results
deevybee.blogspot.co.uk
11 mentions — 2 weeks ago
a) Describe this as my main effect of interest, revising my hypothesis to argue for a site-specific sex effect c) Ignore the result as it was not predicted and is likely to be a false positive I'd love to do a survey to see how people respond to ...
How Caffeine Short-Circuits Creativity
The New Yorker
6 mentions — 2 days ago
Honoré de Balzac is said to have consumed the equivalent of fifty cups of coffee a day at his peak. He did not drink coffee, though—he pulverized coffee beans into a fine dust and ingested the dry powder on an empty stomach. He described the approach as “horrible, rather brutal,” to be tried only by men of “excessive vigor.” He documented the effects of the process in his 1839 essay “Traité des Excitants Modernes” (“On Modern Stimulants”): “Sparks shoot all the way up to the brain” while “ideas quick-march into ...
David Brooks: The brain is not the mind
Why Evolution Is True on WordPress.com
2 mentions — 22 hours ago
David Brooks always seems to write above his pay grade when he weighs in about science. His pop evolutionary-psychology book The Social Animal, which was excerpted in The New Yorker, was pretty dreadful, and, I think, inimical to the public understanding of evolution in its pretense that we ...
This is how you should commit suicide - Barking Up The Wrong Tree
bakadesuyo.com
2 mentions — 1 day ago
In his book This Is How, Augusten Burroughs makes an important distinction between suicide and ending your life.I realized suicide was the last thing I wanted to do. It was actually the opposite of what I desired. Suicide would not accomplish any of my goals:I hadn’t been able ...
Book Review: Brainwashed
Neuroskeptic
4 mentions — 2 days ago
You see, I was suspicious of the fact that one of the authors is a resident scholar with the American Enterprise Institute (AEI), an organization whose political values I oppose, and, insofar as it’s an organization with political values, has littlebusiness going near science.Then, when I found that ...
How TV Depolarized Politics in Mid-Century America
Harvard Business Review
2 mentions — 21 hours ago
The middle-of-the-road, "mainstream" content of early television in mid-twentieth century America contributed to a dampening of citizens' extreme political views, say Filipe R. Campante and Daniel A. Hojman of Harvard. By studying Congressional elections as TV spread unevenly from 1946 to 1960, the researchers determined that television helped ...
BishopBlog: High-impact journals: where newsworthiness trumps methodology
deevybee.blogspot.co.uk
3 mentions — 2 weeks ago
Dear Prof. Bishop,We are really surprised about your post in your blog: bashing other people’s work without any collected data that prove or at least support that claims seemed to us really unfair, honestly.We really appreciated your long and consistent scientific production and we are not willing by ...
Dog genetics spur scientific spat
Nature News & Comment
3 mentions — 2 days ago
Scientists investigating the transformation of wolves into dogs are behaving a bit like the animals they study, as disputes roil among those using genetics to understand dog domestication.In recent months, three international teams have published papers comparing the genomes of dogs and wolves. On some matters — such ...
» People’s Misconceptions & the Frustations of Adult ADHD - World of Psychology
World of Psychology
2 mentions — 2 days ago
Merely struggling with compensating for the challenges so they don’t interfere with daily functioning and learning new ways to do things can be taxing. There is a constant internal battle of symptom and strategy waging inside yourself when you are coping with ADHD. In fact, a lot about ...
Costanza and the Whale: Could You Make a Blowhole in One? | Overthinking It, Scientific American Blog Network
Overthinking It, Scientific American Blog Network
2 mentions — 17 hours ago
In between moonlighting as a fake architect and latex salesman, George Costanza was once a fake marine biologist. His story defines sitcom lore.Caught in another lie while walking the beach with a potential girlfriend, Costanza’s supposed expertise was tested by a crowd gathered around a beached whale. He ...
US NSF
Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP) Supple...
2 mentions — 3 days ago
Dear Colleague Letter: FY 2013 Career-Life Balance (CLB) - Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP) Supplemental Funding RequestsInstituted in 2012, NSF's Career-Life Balance (CLB) Initiative is an ambitious, ten-year initiative that will build on the best of family-friendly practices among individual NSF programs to expand them to activities NSF-wide.This agency-level approach will help attract, retain, and advance graduate students, postdoctoral students, and early-career researchers in STEM fields.This effort is designed to help reduce the rate at which women depart from the STEM workforce.Further information on the CLB initiative
GradPay
gradpay.herokuapp.com
2 mentions — 2 days ago
Stipends, responsibilities, and benefits vary widely among graduate students. Some students are paid a healthy stipend to complete their programs--and others take out loans to pay for theirs. Some students work as teaching assistants every term, while others are never required to teach.Which institutions and departments provide the ...
Sleep Deprivation in Hospitals Is a Real Problem
The Atlantic
2 mentions — 15 hours ago
The importance of sleep is perhaps most realized when we become sick. When we are hospitalized and mostin need of every ounce of health, though, hospital care practically guarantees that we won't get good sleep. Fortunately, two approacheshold promise to improve sleep for patients: one organizational, and the ...
The Problem with the Neuroscience Backlash
The New Yorker
4 mentions — 13 hours ago
Aristotle thought that the function of the brain was to cool the blood. That seems ludicrous now; through neuroscience, we know more about the brain and how it works than ever before. But, over the past several years, enthusiasm has often outstripped the limits of what current science ...
'Sesame Street' creates first Muppet to have a parent in jail - TODAY.com
TODAY.com
2 mentions — 3 days ago
Alex is part of a Sesame Workshop online took kit aimed to help children with a parent behind bars understand and cope with the situation. Those friendly, fuzzy Muppets from “Sesame Street” have helped kids open up about all sorts of serious subjects, from hunger and divorce to ...
Randomise Me: how you can set up and run your own trial
Nesta
2 mentions — 3 days ago
Randomised control trials (RCTs) can be one of the most powerful tools to test whether something is making a positive difference. On 20 June 2013 we are hosting the launch of Randomise Me, a new website developed with Ben Goldacre, which will enable anyone to set up and run their own trial.What questions would you like to answer? For instance, ever wondered whether coffee gives you heart palpitations? Whether the reading app used in your classroom really does improve children's attainment? Whether your new marketing campaign is increasing volunteer recruitment?
More Than Honey: A New Documentary Offers Spectacular Close-Ups of Bees Mid-Flight and Perspective on the Worldwide Honeybee Crisis | Brainwaves, Scientific American Blog Network
Brainwaves, Scientific American Blog Network
2 mentions — 22 hours ago
More Than Honey: A New Documentary Offers Spectacular Close-Ups of Bees Mid-Flight and Perspective on the Worldwide Honeybee CrisisA male honey bee is essentially a winged penis doomed to die immediately after losing his virginity. On summer afternoons, male bees—known as drones—emerge from many different hives and gather ...