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Interactive and reproducible science papers with jupyter (and mathematica)? - 6 views

www.theatlantic.com/...556676 science
shared by koskons on 12 Mar 19 - No Cached
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  • darioizzo2 on 12 Mar 19
     
    I agree soooo very much. An increasing number of journal and scientists are finally coming on board with this open science philosophy and I bet we will soon see a radical change of the whole peer review process and publication business
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ESA article on magnetic reconnection, related: solar flares, earth magnetic field jets,... - 0 views

sci.esa.int/...index.cfm PHY science space ESA CLUSTER
shared by johannessimon81 on 22 May 13 - No Cached
  • johannessimon81 on 22 May 13
     
    ESA Science & Technology: A leap forward in probing magnetic reconnection in space: Magnetic reconnection is a fundamental physical process in the Universe, playing a major role in various phenomena such as star formation or solar explosions, but also preventing plasma confinement in fusion reactors on Earth. However, a lack of precise measurements at the heart of this physical process prevents a full understanding of this phenomenon.
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Amateur planet hunters find a world with a four star rating | Bad Astronomy | Discover ... - 4 views

blogs.discovermagazine.com/...-world-with-a-four-star-rating astronomy science space
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  • LeopoldS on 17 Oct 12
     
    One more reason why we should be much more open about all these EO data we have .... The two citizen scientists, Kian Jek and Robert Gagliano, are listed as authors on the scientific paper recently published. I love this: the digital nature of these data make it far, far easier to analyze the science than it was in the past, and also easier to get the data out to people. Because of this, we have an explosive growth in these kinds of projects. Planet Hunters is great, but then so is Galaxy Zoo, Moon Mappers, Ice Hunters, and so many others. You can find several of these collected at the CosmoQuest website.
  • Marcus Maertens on 18 Oct 12
     
    Wiktor is also collecting these science games in the ACT-wiki. You should have a look at: http://sophia.estec.esa.int/actwiki/index.php/On-line_Games_4_science
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Proof of the Riemann Hypothesis utilizing the theory of Alternative Facts - 0 views

www.scribd.com/...he-theory-of-Alternative-Facts science math fun
shared by Alexander Wittig on 31 Jan 17 - No Cached
  • Alexander Wittig on 31 Jan 17
     
    An excellent science coffee topic! This is a true breakthrough in pure mathematics with plentiful applications in the lesser sciences (such as theoretical physics). People tell me quantum gravity is already practically solved by this. Conway's powerful theory of Alternative Facts can render many difficult problems tractable. Here we demonstrate the power of AF to prove the Riemann Hypothesis, one of the most important unsolved problems in mathematics. We further suggest applications of AF to other challenging unsolved problems such as the zero-equals-one conjecture (which is also true) and the side-counting problem of the circle.
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The Genome Project-Write | Science - 2 views

science.sciencemag.org/...science.aaf6850.full BIO genome project
shared by jaihobah on 03 Jun 16 - No Cached
  • jaihobah on 03 Jun 16
     
    These people want to construct a synthetic human genome
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Fly into Solar Radiation Storm (First ACT member into space !) - 1 views

science.nasa.gov/...19apr_camilla Solar radiation storm nasa
shared by Vincent C on 25 Apr 12 - No Cached
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  • Vincent C on 25 Apr 12
     
    " This isn't Camilla's first adventure. The chicken has also flown on a NASA T-38 training jet, traveled onboard a helium balloon to the stratosphere over Louisiana, visited the Yuri Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center in Star City, Russia, and visited hundreds of elementary students in classrooms around the country. " Pretty impressive Camilla ! Congratulations :)
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South Africa wins science panel's backing to host SKA telescope : Nature News & Comment - 0 views

www.nature.com/...-to-host-ska-telescope-1.10205 Science space south africa telescope
shared by santecarloni on 12 Mar 12 - No Cached
  • Final decision on Square Kilometer Array's location not expected before April.
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Rhapsody for Hungarian science - 3 views

www.nature.com/...y-for-hungarian-science-1.9619 science funding
shared by tvinko on 16 Dec 11 - No Cached
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  • tvinko on 16 Dec 11
     
    time to move to Hungary?
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Why Don't We Have Abundant Solar Power? Blame Financing, and Industry, not Science | Si... - 3 views

singularityhub.com/...ncing-and-industry-not-science solar power technology science
shared by santecarloni on 23 Jan 12 - No Cached
  • LeopoldS on 28 Jan 12
     
    The linked queen Mary report is the actual interesting part of this post ...
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Demonstration of Blind Quantum Computing - 0 views

www.sciencemag.org/...303 quantum computer Quit science IT
shared by LeopoldS on 20 Jan 12 - No Cached
  • LeopoldS on 20 Jan 12
     
    Another Zeilinger article in science
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The Science Behind the Pacific Rim Mind Meld - Science on the Web - YouTube - 1 views

www.youtube.com/watch fun science
shared by Marcus Maertens on 04 Aug 13 - No Cached
  • Marcus Maertens on 04 Aug 13
     
    Lets start the Jaeger-program, shall we?
  • Beniamino Abis on 05 Aug 13
     
    I don't have a project right now....
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Climate scientists told to 'cover up' the fact that the Earth's temperature hasn't rise... - 5 views

www.dailymail.co.uk/...emperature-risen-15-years.html climate temperature
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  • Dario Izzo on 20 Sep 13
     
    This is becoming a mess :)
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  • Athanasia Nikolaou on 20 Sep 13
     
    I would avoid reading climate science from political journals, for a less selective / dramatic picture :-) . Here is a good start: http://www.realclimate.org/ And an article on why climate understanding should be approached hierarcically, (that is not the way done in the IPCC), a view with insight, 8 years ago: http://www.princeton.edu/aos/people/graduate_students/hill/files/held2005.pdf
  • Dario Izzo on 20 Sep 13
     
    True, but fundings are allocated to climate modelling 'science' on the basis of political decisions, not solid and boring scientific truisms such as 'all models are wrong'. The reason so many people got trained on this area in the past years is that resources were allocated to climate science on the basis of the dramatic picture depicted by some scientists when it was indeed convenient for them to be dramatic.
  • Athanasia Nikolaou on 20 Sep 13
     
    I see your point, and I agree that funding was also promoted through the energy players and their political influence. A coincident parallel interest which is irrelevant to the fact that the question remains vital. How do we affect climate and how does it respond. Huge complex system to analyse which responds in various time scales which could obscure the trend. What if we made a conceptual parallelism with the L Ácquila case : Is the scientific method guilty or the interpretation of uncertainty in terms of societal mobilization? Should we leave the humanitarian aspect outside any scientific activity?
  • Dario Izzo on 20 Sep 13
     
    I do not think there is anyone arguing that the question is not interesting and complex. The debate, instead, addresses the predictive value of the models produced so far. Are they good enough to be used outside of the scientific process aimed at improving them? Or should one wait for "the scientific method" to bring forth substantial improvements to the current understanding and only then start using its results? One can take both stand points, but some recent developments will bring many towards the second approach.
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The known unknowns - the outstanding 49 questions in Earth sciences (Part I) - 4 views

geolog.egu.eu/...49-questions-in-earth-sciences planetary science PHY climate space. materials
shared by Athanasia Nikolaou on 05 Sep 14 - No Cached
  • Athanasia Nikolaou on 05 Sep 14
     
    Open questions in geoscience. Food for thought
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Nature podcast - Music and the making of science - 2 views

www.nature.com/...ndex-audiofile-2015-03-12.html science music podcast
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  • jcunha on 24 Apr 15
     
    "Is music simply a pleasant accompaniment to thought, or a driving force behind it? This show examines music's influence on the development of modern science and the foundations of acoustics." See also http://www.nature.com/news/strike-a-chord-1.17127
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A Puzzling Collapse of Earth's Upper Atmosphere - 1 views

science.nasa.gov/...15jul_thermosphere phy atmosphere solar_forecast
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  • NASA-funded researchers are monitoring a big event in our planet's atmosphere. High above Earth's surface where the atmosphere meets space, a rarefied layer of gas called "the thermosphere" recently collapsed and now is rebounding again.
  • pacome delva on 22 Jul 10
     
    Wow, this is a bit frigthening. Another proof that we understand very little about our atmosphere !!!
  • LeopoldS on 22 Jul 10
     
    very interesting indeed!
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Students Record Spellbinding Video of Disintegrating Spacecraft - 1 views

science.nasa.gov/...25jun_hayabusa space
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  • pacome delva on 22 Jul 10
     
    cool the video!
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Short-term meditation induces white matter changes in the anterior cingulate - PNAS - 3 views

www.pnas.org/...1011043107 bio INF science BMI
shared by LeopoldS on 24 Aug 10 - Cached
  • LeopoldS on 24 Aug 10
     
    one more try to get you interested in this ... seems that it is slowly but surely moving into the domain of serious science ...
  • Ma Ru on 25 Aug 10
     
    Why don't you try this out? 10 minutes group meditation before every ACT meeting... Should be fun!
  • Luzi Bergamin on 25 Aug 10
     
    Great, just great!! The conclusion seems to be "Thus IBMT could provide a means for improving self-regulation and perhaps reducing or preventing various mental disorders." Why all this neuro-bio-nonsense?? Wasn't this conclusion known before just using good old classic psychology and similar? Again one of these studies that thinks to provide new evidence just because they made a boring brain scan...
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BBC News | SCI/TECH | 'Tractor beam' technology advances - 2 views

news.bbc.co.uk/...1310771.stm
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  • duncan barker on 16 Aug 10
     
    Here is the tractor beam I mentioned from fridays science coffee. At the moment its used for microscopic particles only. This could be looked into to see if it could be scaled up to deflect particles in space
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The importance of stupidity in scientific research. - 10 views

jcs.biologists.org/...1771
shared by Giusi Schiavone on 07 Sep 10 - Cached
  • Giusi Schiavone on 07 Sep 10
     
    I suggest you this easy reading ( is on a peer-reviewed scientific journal, IF = 6.14) 'We just don't know what we're doing!!!'
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  • LeopoldS on 08 Sep 10
     
    as a start of a peer reviewed paper this is an interesting first paragraph: "I recently saw an old friend for the first time in many years. We had been Ph.D. students at the same time, both studying science, although in different areas. She later dropped out of graduate school, went to Harvard Law School and is now a senior lawyer for a major environmental organization. At some point, the conversation turned to why she had left graduate school. To my utter astonishment, she said it was because it made her feel stupid. After a couple of years of feeling stupid every day, she was ready to do something else."
  • Ma Ru on 08 Sep 10
     
    Hilarious! Mr Schwartz, who made a PhD at Stanford(!) and apparently is working as a postdoc now, has finally discovered what science is about!!! Quote: "That's when it hit me: nobody did. That's why it was a research problem." And he seems so excited about it! I think he should not only get published in 6.14 journal, but also get the Nobel Prize immediately! Seriously, after reading something like this, how one may not have superstitions about the educational system in the US?
  • LeopoldS on 10 Sep 10
     
    I tend to agree with you but I think that you are too harsh - its still only an "essay" and one of his points of making sure that education at post graduate level is not about indoctrinating what we know already is valid ...
  • Francesco Biscani on 20 Sep 10
     
    I think this quote by Richard Horton is relevant to the discussion: "We portray peer review to the public as a quasi-sacred process that helps to make science our most objective truth teller. But we know that the system of peer review is biased, unjust, unaccountable, incomplete, easily fixed, often insulting, usually ignorant, occasionally foolish, and frequently wrong." :P
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