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Hypothes.is - Taking peer review to the Internet. by Dan Whaley - Kickstarter - 3 views

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    An open-source Internet platform to crowdsource peer-review on information everywhere.
thinkahol *

An illustrated guide to the latest climate science « Climate Progress - 0 views

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    "In 2009, the scientific literature caught up with what top climate scientists have been saying privately for a few years now: * Many of the predicted impacts of human-caused climate change are occurring much faster than anybody expected - particularly ice melt, everywhere you look on the planet. * If we stay anywhere near our current emissions path, we are facing incalculable catastrophes by century's end, including rapid sea level rise, massive wildfires, widespread Dust-Bowlification, large oceanic dead zones, and 9°F warming - much of which could be all but irreversible for centuries. And that's not the worst-case scenario! * The consequences for human health and well being would be extreme. That's no surprise to anybody who has talked to leading climate scientists in recent years, read my book Hell and High Water (or a number of other books), or followed this blog. Still, it is a scientific reality that I don't think more than 2 people in 100 fully grasp, so I'm going to review here the past year in climate science. I'll focus primarily on the peer-reviewed literature, but also look at some major summary reports."
Todd Suomela

Strange Horizons Reviews: The Shock of the Old by David Edgerton, reviewed by Bruce Ste... - 0 views

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    Edgerton's major line of attack is the assertion that we falsely imagine that "technology" is the same as "innovation" and "invention." That the vast bulk of "technology" is the installed base. The old stuff.
farhad nipu

Technology update and reviews - 0 views

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    ActualTechReview is a great technology portal which provides all types of technology news updates, product reviews, home entertainment systems, gadgets and more. It also covers the most important technology news, developments and trends with insightful analysis.
thinkahol *

YouTube - Think faster focus better and remember moreRewiring our brain to stay younger... - 0 views

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    October 24, 2008 - Google Tech Talks June 16, 2008 ABSTRACT Explore the brain's amazing ability to change throughout a person's life. This phenomenon-called neuroplasticty-is the science behind brain fitness, and it has been called one of the most extraordinary scientific discoveries of the 20th century. PBS had recently aired this special, The Brain Fitness Program, which explains the brain's complexities in a way that both scientists and people with no scientific background can appreciate. This is opportunity to learn more about how our minds work-and to find out more about the latest in cutting-edge brain research, from the founder of Posit Science and creator of the Brain Fitness Program software, Dr. Michael Merzenich. Speaker: Dr. Michael Merzenich, Ph.D. Michael M. Merzenich, PhD: Chief Scientific Officer Dr. Merzenich leads the company's scientific team. For more than three decades, Dr. Merzenich has been a leading pioneer in brain plasticity research. He is the Francis A. Sooy Professor at the Keck Center for Integrative Neurosciences at UCSF. Dr. Merzenich is a member of the National Academy of Sciences. He is the recipient of numerous awards and prizes, including the Ipsen Prize, Zulch Prize of the Max Planck Institute, Thomas Alva Edison Patent Award and Purkinje Medal. Dr. Merzenich has published more than 200 articles, including many in leading peer-reviewed journals, such as Science and Nature. His work is also often covered in the popular press, including the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, Time and Newsweek. He has appeared on Sixty Minutes II, CBS Evening News and Good Morning America. In the late 1980s, Dr. Merzenich was on the team that invented the cochlear implant, now distributed by market leader Advanced Bionics. In 1996, Dr. Merzenich was the founding CEO of Scientific Learning Corporation (Nasdaq: SCIL), which markets and distributes software that applies principles of brain plasticity to assist children with language
Todd Suomela

Scientific Explanation (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy) - 0 views

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    Reviews deductive-nomological (Popper, Hempel); statistical relevance (Salmon); causal mechanical; and unificationist (Friedman and Kitcher
Todd Suomela

Science Studies | An Interdisciplinary Journal for Science and Technology Studies - 0 views

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    Science Studies is an international peer-reviewed journal dedicated to publishing articles on the study of science and technology studies.
thinkahol *

CES: Smart Grid, Smarter Home  - Technology Review - 0 views

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    Expect a wave of new appliances in the home.
thinkahol *

Among Students, Web Connection More Important than Car - The Daily Stat - September 26,... - 0 views

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    64% of college students in a global survey said that if forced to choose, they would opt for having an internet connection rather than a car. 40% said the internet is more important to them than dating, going out with friends, or listening to music. The Cisco Connected World Technology Report draws on surveys of some 1,400 students in 14 countries.Source: Is the Internet a Fundamental Human Necessity?
Todd Suomela

On the Pew Science Survey, Beware the Fall from Grace Narrative : Framing Science - 0 views

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    This traditional fall from grace narrative about science argues for the need to return to a (fictional) point in the past where science was better understood and appreciated by the public... Yet you would be hard pressed to find this type of rhetoric in the peer-reviewed literature examining public opinion about science, the role of scientific expertise in policymaking, or the relationship between science and other social institutions.
thinkahol *

A $1.50 Lens-Free Microscope - Technology Review - 0 views

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    The device could diagnose disease in the developing world and enable rapid drug screening.
Todd Suomela

The Back Page - 0 views

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    The Future of Science: Building a Better Collective Memory By Michael A. Nielsen
Todd Suomela

Technology Review: Keeping Tabs - 1 views

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    But the tab as an information technology metaphor is everywhere in use. And whether our tabs are cardboard extensions or digital projections, they all date to an invention little more than a hundred years old. The original tab signaled an information storage revolution and helped enable everything from management consulting to electronic data processing.
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