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Links
Via mawaridihttp://www.howshouldivote.com.au/Read more... ) -
Food for thought
George Orwell on the increasing vagueness of the English language as used by politicians, journalists, and other public writers. (He doesn't mention academics, but I've read so many papers guilty of the sins he notes ( Read more... ) -
Interesting
Courtesy of cratukihttp://www.blog.sethroberts.net/2006/11/26/brian-wansink-on-research-design/Read more... ) -
economic modelling
I thought some of you might be interested in this ( Read more... ) -
Interesting
Thoughts on the future of academic publications:
http://scienceblogs.com/cognitivedaily/2006/10/the_future_of_science_publishi.php#more
In summary, 'reader pays' is a sucky model. But how to replace it? -
Linky times two
I'd heard it caused schizophrenia, but apparently toxoplasmosis can be subtle too...
http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/DyeHard/story?id=2288095&page=1
This is cool. Reminds me of a lovely quote from Kim Stanley Robinson's 'Antartica': Beauty is fractal ( Read more... ) -
Random interesting link
You might have heard about the recent study showing that prayer ISN'T effective in healing (at least for coronary artery bypass surgery). I had, but I didn't hear the bit where the patients who knew they were being prayed for had MORE complications than patients who didn't know, or who weren't prayed for. Commentary on the American Heart Journal ( Read more... ) -
Random link
An amusing essay on why the American patent system is f***ed up.http://www.nytimes.com/2006/03/19/opinion/19crichton.html?ex=1300424400&en=9acdb7fe498d2579&ei=5090&partner=rssuserland&emc=rssThe internet is really really great...
for cog psych blogs!
Anyone who is as excited as me about change blindness, unilateral hemineglect, theory of mind, and the object vs. space based visual attention theories... should go look at
Cognitive Daily and
Developing Intelligence.
I need a geeky icon.