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Guy Cools's List: Science
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Jan 13, 14
E-readers and tablets are becoming more popular as such technologies improve, but research suggests that reading on paper still boasts unique advantages. By Ferris Jabr
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Jan 24, 13
An ingenious researcher finds the real ingredients of “fake” medicine
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Dec 30, 12
The point we will be making here is that logically, neither trial and error nor "chance" and serendipity can be behind the gains in technology and empirical science attributed to them. By definition chance cannot lead to long term gains (it would no longer be chance); trial and error cannot be unconditionally effective: errors cause planes to crash, buildings to collapse, and knowledge to regress. NASSIM NICHOLAS TALEB
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Nov 15, 12
Het veranderende klimaat zorgt voor veel minder droogtes dan we denken. Tussen 1950 en 2008 is de wereld gemiddeld genomen zelfs nauwelijks verdroogd, aldus een nieuwe analyse in vakblad Nature.
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Apr 10, 12
Meet Patrick Ball, a statistician who's spent his life lifting the fog of war.
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Mar 10, 12
Inside UCL’s Financial Computing Centre, the planet’s brightest quantitative analysts are now calculating our future
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Nov 07, 11
Neuroscientist David Eagleman explores the processes and skills of the subconscious mind, which our conscious selves rarely consider.
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Sep 21, 11
This is the second in an occasional series of articles and videos about leaders in science.
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May 14, 11
Meet Edward Tufte, the graphics guru to the power elite who is revolutionizing how we see data.
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May 09, 11
Biology is undergoing a renaissance as scientists apply mathematical ideas to old theory. Welcome to the discipline of biomathematics, with its visions of spherical cows, football-shaped viruses and equations that can predict the pattern of a zebra’s stripes.
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Apr 22, 11
Our world is a place where information can behave like human genes and ideas can replicate, mutate and evolve
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Apr 19, 11
Harvard's Edward O. Wilson tries to upend biology, again
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Apr 08, 11
Warfare seems to obey mathematical rules. Whether soldiers can make use of that fact remains to be seen
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Mar 15, 11
The label now has many meanings, but when the group protested 200 years ago, technology wasn't really the enemy
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Dec 18, 10
The Tools of Science showed the beauty in maths, but hiding it on BBC4 suggests that big ideas are not for the masses.
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both Snow and his detractors would be out of favour today. Whereas they were arguing over the best way to improve humanity through culture, today culture is only really understood as a hedonistic distraction
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Dec 07, 10
The Shape of Inner Space: String Theory and the Geometry of the Universe's Hidden Dimensions (Shing-Tung Yau and Steve Nadis)
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Oct 06, 10
A Vast Machine: Computer Models, Climate Data, and The Politics of Global Warming (Paul N Edwards)
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