Science 2.0

Alistair Clarke probably fits the definition of pop psychology, but his book is a lot more insightful than these findings: http://www.scientificblogging.com/news_releases/source_all_humor_alast…

http://www.scientificblogging.com/news_releases/study_low_income_equal… "low income equals high obesity"

It's clever but your job search may be difficult given your ideal job description... http://www.scientificblogging.com/rogue_neuron/creativity_crime_passio…

The entire "field" of memetics is a form of pseudoscience, without clear presuppositions, by the way, Dawkins is a die hard fan of bogus scientific definition: http://www.scientificblogging.com/gadfly/extended_phenotype_how_richar…

Sodium is important to brain function. It's recently been linked with antidepressant properties: http://www.scientificblogging.com/news_releases/salt_may_be_antidepres…

People in richer countries have fewer children and the birth rate falls with economic growth. My personal observation is that people in Salford (not a nice area at all) have more children and MUCH earlier than those in Wimbledon (fairly affluent). The study also found that education is negatively correlated to number of offspring: http://www.scientificblogging.com/rationally_speaking/so_much_absence_…

Here is a recent research result suggesting a possible mechanism of action for DHA (a component of fish oil) lowering the risk of onset for Alzheimers. It's not clear that it would be useful in a case of extreme dementia but DHA increases the level of a brain protein, LR11 (also known as SorLA), that helps clear the brain of amyloid precursor protein(APP), essential for production of the brain-gumming beta-amyloid plaque that clogs the brains of people with Alzheimer's disease. http://www.jneurosci.org/cgi/content/abstract/27/52/14299 http://www.webmd.com/alzheimers/news/20071226/fish-oil-prevents-alzhei… http://www.scientificblogging.com/news_releases/lr11_and_why_fish_oil_…

> I've never heard of influential people in quantum mechanics trying to get a journal shut down because it published something critical of many worlds. You're making a poor choice by using 'many worlds', which is as much/more about philosophy as it is about physics. But if you're looking for blacklisting, banning, etc, here's an example for you, specifically from influential people in quantum mechanics: Arxiv blacklists topics/people all the time. http://www.scientificblogging.com/quantum_diaries_survivor/does_arxiv_… http://www.archivefreedom.org/ http://archivefreedom.org/freedom/Cyberia.html > We could, I dunno, hack their email to try and see if they try to suppress dissenting opinions? If what's been brought to light consists of anything more than angry muttering I'd like to see it. Personally I'd say the anger is more than justified, although it was stupid to bring it out of the bar and into public record. > Well, actually we can't, since they deleted the data (oops, I mean lost it accidentally, they never acted on the emails in which they said they would delete it)... It's my understanding that the 'lost' data is (a) available from original sources, since it was a compilation of weather station data; (b) still fully available in 'cleaned-up'/scrubbed form (e.g. deleting data that was duplicated from multiple sources), (c) not the data referred to in the hacked emails (it was about other emails, no?). If you're determined to find…

One person's opinion ... You will never read math like English. I'm a Ph.D., I've had this discussion with many other graduates and post-graduates. Math is different from English (or any other natural language). In my circles of math, programming and education there is even a phrase "Read like Math" as opposed to "Read like a comic book". Math is its own language, and it is dense. When interpreted into English a single equation can become several paragraphs. Learning to read and visualize an equation is possible, but always necessary. Simple equations are easy, but if there's real content, it's hard. You need to ask what you're trying to accomplish, really. If you want to learn stuff, you need to do it. You can learn about it by reading about it, but you can only learn to do it by doing it (under guidance or with hints). See also: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=672067 http://www.scientificblogging.com/carl_wieman/why_not_try_scientific_a… EDIT: added reference: http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?MathForProgrammers Quoting from the this last: I'm not certain that reading like prose is a benefit. When algebra was first invented, people didn't use variables, operators or other notation. They just wrote things out in natural language. Here is an example from Al-Khwarizmi's famous book: If the instance be, 'ten and thing to be multiplied by thing less ten,' then this is the same as 'if it were said thing and ten…