ben goldacre witters on and on and on about things that are too long to post on twitter and not clever enough to post on his main blog at www.badscience.net
Fun piece from Julian Todd at Scraperwiki about teaching IT and what tech's for, nice nugget at the end. I think that an interesting future for stimulating IT in schools is hacking real world things with programming.http://blog.scraperwiki.com/2012/01/13/the-long-dark-tea-time-of-the-computer-programmer/ While this change in Government policy is absolutely vital, it is odd the way the people lobbying for it haven’t branched outside of their narrow fields of computer games and computer graphics – which are ultimately...
Via my friend and fellow synthnerd Fabio Masseti, one of the strangest composing gigs ever. Vangelis, epic washy synth composer behind "Blade Runner" and "Chariots of Fire", does a soundtrack to... 12 hours of neurosurgery instructional videos: http://thegrowingbin.blogspot.com/2012/01/vangelis-tegos-tapes.html This publication by dr. Tegos is divided into three sections, the first giving a general review of the commonest pathology of the spinal cord, the second detailed descriptions of 35 representative patients...
(this post is updated with examples below, for those that don't see how sharing what you listen to might be a bad idea) Privacy is a big issue online. When you sign up for websites, they often make you agree to a zillion page document that nobody ever reads, and they also often seem to end up sharing lots of personal data. It's creepy, and I mostly avoid Facebook for that reason. http://www.pcworld.com/article/240592/facebooks_frictionless_sharing_a_privac... I signed up for Spotify today. For the first 30 minutes...
This paper reports a simple-ish way to do meta-analysis and forest plots in Excel, using a template. I'm not saying amateur DIY meta-analysis is a great idea, maybe Stata competence is an appropriate entry cost (I don't really think that): anyway, this seems to be a pretty interesting idea, if it's all solid. Paper here: http://www.biomedcentral.com/1756-0500/5/52/abstractTemplate here:www.biomedcentral.com/imedia/6438653856618287/supp1.xlsx Wiki on meta-analysis:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meta-analysisCompeting...
I have few words. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2090556/Life-Venus-Russian-scientist-claims-seen-scorpion-probe-photographs.html
This is a really neat service. US medical students grade US medical schools on the policies they have for regulating relationships with the pharmaceutical industry. I'm sad there's nothing like this...
viahttp://www.b3ta.com/links/So_imagine_you_are_a_crow andwww.twitter.com/robmanuel
I absolutely shit you not. Original FOI document from Met Police website below. http://www.met.police.uk/foi/pdfs/disclosure_2011/december/2011110000259.pdf via https://twitter.com/#!/johnnykud...
there's a post on tech-crunch here about how machines and algorithms will be able to take over from doctors in diagnostics and treatments. http://tcrn.ch/yz3V9c i think it's a nice idea, but i'd like to see the evidence. as it happens, there's a large literature on decision support tools, and shared decision making, and all that. stretching that data to the extreme, going close to the hopes of this fantasy piece, i'd be interested to know, where you would get? essentially, if someone could rewrite that tech-crunch...
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