The brightest genius in our young millennium:
The brightest genius in our young millennium:
Corina Tarnita
CV: http://www.princeton.edu/eeb/people/data/c/ctarnita/CV.pdf
The brightest genius in our young millennium:
Corina Tarnita
CV: http://www.princeton.edu/eeb/people/data/c/ctarnita/CV.pdf
Classic by Sidney Harris.
Great new book by Jutta Person.
(http://www.amazon.de/dp/3882210788/)
"[Man kommt] in die Versuchung, alle großen Fragen vom Esel her zu beantworten." (Eckhard Fuhr, Die Welt)
From the same series.
(http://www.amazon.de/dp/3882210486/)
"Buddha bei die Fische." (Woodprint on vat paper, Cologne, early 21th century.)
DIY Archimedes Basic Globe Set, with crayon markings. (100% reclaimed rubberwood, Vietnam, early 21th century.)
Woodsplitting stone tool from Bronze Age. (Basalt, found in Sandwiese/Hesse/Germany.)
Back side with marks from bronze pickaxe.
Neolithic all-purpose stone tool. (Near Schönhagen airport, Brandenburg/Germany.)
Grating = 1cm.
Neolithic grindstone, Odenwald (Hesse/Germany).
Randy Schekman says his lab will no longer send papers to Nature, Cell and Science as they distort scientific process
Randy Schekman, a US biologist who won the Nobel prize in physiology or medicine this year and receives his prize in Stockholm on Tuesday, said his lab would no longer send research papers to the top-tier journals, Nature, Cell and Science.
Schekman said pressure to publish in “luxury” journals encouraged researchers to cut corners and pursue trendy fields of science instead of doing more important work. The problem was exacerbated, he said, by editors who were not active scientists but professionals who favoured studies that were likely to make a splash. Read More »
Salty Water Seen Flowing Down Martian Slopes?
Book on the method of thought experiments in science.
http://www.amazon.com/dp/3518293427/
(cheeper via amazon.de: http://www.amazon.de/dp/3518293427/)
Free online papers on thought experiments by the same author:
http://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/4700/1/TE_Toronto090522_kuehne.pdf (in English)
http://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/3498/1/UKuehne_1997_BremerPhilosophica.pdf (in German)
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