Metousiosis 15Apr11 Links
It appears as though spring has finally arrived in Boston, enjoy some links:
- Peter Thiel: We’re in a Bubble and It’s Not the Internet. It’s Higher Education
- Search for Dark Matter Narrowed by New Data From XENON100
- Why the Internet is No Substitute for a Library
- Power Balance Smacked in Another Lawsuit
- Does anyone in Silicon Valley care about Windows anymore?
- Too much information? Risk-benefit data does not always lead to informed decision-making
- This is what schizophrenia looks like at the molecular level
- Tying light into knots
- Possible cause of salt-induced hypertension identified
- Lawrence Krauss: Students Need to Learn Effective Failure
- Antarctic Lake Hides Bizarre Ecosystem
- How NASA Recovers The Space Shuttle’s Solid Rocket Boosters
- A judge’s willingness to grant parole can be influenced by breaks
- People who overuse credit believe products have unrealistic properties
- Stillbirths: The invisible public health problem
- How “Inadmissible” Brain Scans Can Still Influence the Courts
- Damage from BP oil spill lingers a year later
- Bill Donohue: Priest Sex Abuse Victims Were “Not Children” And “Not Raped”
- Understanding the Brain as a Computational Network
- The World’s Smallest Wedding Rings Are Made from DNA
- When Sarah Palin Snuck Out to See Ivana Trump
- Neurological basis for embarrassment described
- Help stop antivax ads in NYC
- How like us are they? Human and Non-human Primate Cognition
- CAM In Medical Schools
- Myth-busting the cybersafety debate
- How wasps produce their own antibiotics
- Moth Mutation Explains Classic Example of Evolution
- Acupuncture No Better Than Placebo And May Be Harmful
- What’s a scientific controversy…
- Photography and Sexism in the Skeptical Movement
- Scientists identify mechanism of long-term memory
- Headless flies respond to light
- Japan’s crisis: one month later
- Yemen: Months of unrest and turmoil
- How beliefs shape effort and learning
- New site to use crowd-sourcing as means to translate the internet
- South Pole Neutrino Detector Comes Up Empty
- The Role of Experience in Science-Based Medicine
~ by metousiosis on April 15, 2011.
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