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“JUST ANOTHER THREE MINUTES” (COMMENT).
“JUST ANOTHER THREE MINUTES†(COMMENT). A friend e mailed me about my post on theorizing that that “instead of a universe that emerged from a point of infinite density, we will have one that recycles, possibly through an eternal series … Continue reading
KITCHEN SCIENCE EXPERIMENTS.
KITCHEN SCIENCE EXPERIMENTS. Annalisa and Lee Bryant sent me this link to a series of experiments exploring what happens when various items are placed in a microwave. It answers some questions I’ve wondered about. I found myself inexplicably saddened by … Continue reading
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TWO SUGGESTIONS AS TO WHY LANDSCAPE IS DEAD.
TWO SUGGESTIONS AS TO WHY LANDSCAPE IS DEAD. This article (link via Arts & Letters Daily) suggests an answer to Jackie Wullschlager’s question about the death of landscape (the question was “Why?â€). Theodore Dalrymple gives two reasons for the abandonment … Continue reading
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DOES EVOLUTION LEAD US TO LOVE LANDSCAPES?
DOES EVOLUTION LEAD US TO LOVE LANDSCAPES? Jonah Lehrer reviews Dennis Dutton’s new book, THE ART INSTINCT, which argues that our instinct for art and desire for beauty are the result of the evolutionary process. Lehrer describes how Dutton takes … Continue reading
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THE BIG BANG OR A BIG BOUNCE?
THE BIG BANG OR A BIG BOUNCE? I began this blog with a post expressing wonder that radio static was evidence of the Big Bang. What came before the Big Bang? I used to think that we could never know … Continue reading
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CHECKLISTS SAVING LIVES (REVISITED).
CHECKLISTS SAVING LIVES (REVISITED). I posted here on Dr. Atul Gutwande’s argument that doctors should use checklists just as house movers, wedding planners and tax accountants do. Today there is a report on a study by Dr. Guwande which tested … Continue reading
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AN EARLY VALENTINE.
AN EARLY VALENTINE. This is a report on a paper presented at the annual meeting of the Society for Neuroscience. The study used MRI’s to measure brain activity of 17 couples who had been married over 20 years and who … Continue reading
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FINDING A PATTERN IN RANDOMNESS.
FINDING A PATTERN IN RANDOMNESS. I posted here on the Random Walk Hypothesis in response to Annalisa’s comment that stock prices seem to move randomly. Humans see patterns even when there is no pattern and look for causation where none … Continue reading
WE KNOW LESS THAN COMPUTER MODELS SAY WE DO.
WE KNOW LESS THAN COMPUTER MODELS SAY WE DO. My post earlier this week on findings by John Ioannidis that a sizable percentage of published scientific studies are later invalidated is important for understanding the current financial crisis. Studies based … Continue reading
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JOURNALS OF NEGATIVE RESULTS.
JOURNALS OF NEGATIVE RESULTS. The Economist article on the explanations advanced by Ioannidis for why so many scientific articles in prestigious journals are wrong says that “There also seems to be a bias towards publishing positive results…. even though negative … Continue reading
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