Category: Blogging
I don't know if you caught it on these two posts, but I have started to add the Blogging on Peer-Reviewed Research Icon whenever I am analyzing a peer-reviewed paper specifically....
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Posted by NotoriousLTP at 2:06 PM • 0 Comments •
Category: Evolution
There is a really cool paper in Current Biology about the how even an animal's sensory apparatus adapt to their particular evolutionary niche. Greiner et al. looked at four closely-related species of ants from the genus Myrmecia. (As you can...
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Posted by NotoriousLTP at 1:55 PM • 0 Comments •
Category: Atheism
Writing in the City Journal, Theodore Dalrymple criticizes the equivalence of religion with the immoral and atheism with the moral: Lying not far beneath the surface of all the neo-atheist books is the kind of historiography that many of us...
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Posted by NotoriousLTP at 1:45 PM • 10 Comments •
Category: Synapses
Researchers at UCSF show a way to watch AMPA receptor insertion.
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Posted by NotoriousLTP at 11:29 AM • 1 Comments •
Category: Disasters
California wildfires continue to blaze, but this caught my eye: Almost 200 square miles of California, including nearly 700 homes burned since the last official measure. But far fewer homes are threatened and more emergency personnel have arrived. Here are...
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Category: History
People do remember what they use to do at CSHL, right?
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Posted by NotoriousLTP at 9:50 AM • 8 Comments •
Category: Economics
Improving the general caliber of economics understanding is a critical goal.
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Posted by NotoriousLTP at 9:44 AM • 3 Comments •
Category: Intelligence
Here is a must-read post on g-factor by Three Toed Sloth: Anyone who wanders into the bleak and monotonous desert of IQ and the nature-vs-nurture dispute eventually gets trapped in the especially arid question of what, if anything, g, the...
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Posted by NotoriousLTP at 2:22 PM • 1 Comments •
Category: Math
Bettencourt et al. in PNAS looked a variety of cities of various sizes. They wanted to determine what the effect of population size of the city has on their properties including physical properties like roads, but also economic properties like...
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Posted by NotoriousLTP at 4:24 PM • 1 Comments •
Category: Healthcare
From the Economist, medicine is not going well in rural China: Since 2004 the government, for the first time, has been giving direct subsidies to grain farmers in an effort to keep them growing grain and to curb grain-price rises....
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Posted by NotoriousLTP at 3:24 PM • 1 Comments •