piše iznimno zanimljiv blog u kojem objašnjava matematiku na način koji je razumljiv svakome tko ga želi razumjeti
- An exploration of infinity as the math series, not being infinite, comes to an end. - Group theory, one of the most versatile parts of math, bridges the arts and sciences. - The improbable thrills of probability theory.
iznimno cjepidlačan liječnik, potpuno posvećen borbi protiv svih onih koji pribjegavaju lošoj znanosti da bi ostvarili financijsku korist, od farmaceutske industrije, preko trgovaca dodataka prehrani do alternativnih terapeuta i sličnih prevaranata.
- Ben Goldacre, The Guardian, Saturday 4 September 2010 Everyone likes to imagine they are rational, fair, and free from prejudice. But how easily are we misled by appearances? Noola Griffiths is an academic who studies the psychology of music, and she’s published a cracking paper on what women wear, and how that effects your judgement [...] - Ben Goldacre, The Guardian, Saturday 28 August 2010 For simpletons and amateurs, there are good research methods, and bad research methods. In reality, different tools are valuable in different situations, and sometimes, even very tiny numbers of people can give you a meaningful piece of information: even an anecdote can be informative. For example, if [...] - Ben Goldacre, The Guardian, Saturday 21 August 2010 Pass rates are at 98%. A quarter of grades are higher than an A. This week every newspaper in the country was filled with people asserting that exams are definitely getting easier, and then other people asserting that exams are definitely not getting easier. The question for [...]
Znanstvena stranica o klimatskim promjenama
- Update: Nature has just published a thoughtful commentary on the report
The Inter-Academy Council report on the processes and governance of the IPCC is now available. It appears mostly sensible and has a lot of useful things to say about improving IPCC processes – from suggesting a new Executive to be able to speak for IPCC [...] - Surface temperature data sets, surfactemperatures.org, Hadley, Broberg, GSOD, McShane and Wyner, paleoclimate reconstructions, BAMS State of the Climate 2009 - A response from Justin Wood, writing to me from Australia after my previous post (cited with permission below), has prompted me to write a follow-up on the story of the greenhouse effect (GHE).
I wonder if you’ve seen this terrible description of the greenhouse effect on a UNFCCC background page? http://unfccc.int/essential_background/feeling_the_heat/items/2903.php
It actually says that incoming [...]
Ha, BBC Science
- The Hubble space telescope returns to view one of its favourite subjects - a giant stellar explosion first seen from Earth in 1987. - A group of Danish rocket enthusiasts are set to launch a dummy 30km into the sky as part of their quest to develop a private launch system. - Nasa is aiming to get closer to the Sun than ever before, with plans to plunge a car-sized unmanned spacecraft into the star's outer atmosphere.
