Encephalon 14 posted

By developinginte… on January 15, 2007.

Enjoy the holiday with some nice reading from Encephalon 14: Mixing Memory has posted the new issue.

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Encephalon 14

Encephalon 14 is up at Mixing Memory.

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The 14th edition of Encephalon is up on Mixing Memory.

Is most research false? New research addresses the question.

Two new articles tackle the issue of whether most research is false... Which raises the question: how do we know whether this research is true? Or whether any of the links which follow are true? Undaunted, I'll continue... Chris of Mixing Memory has a thoughtful article discussing research…

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