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"There is a biological story with information. I have been repeating that in a natural environment, a stressor is information. So too much information would be too much stress, exceeding the threshold of antifragility. In medicine, we are discovering the healing powers of fasting, as the avoidance of too much hormonal rushes that come with the ingestion of food. Hormones convey information to the different parts of our system and too much of it confuses our biology. Here again, as with the story of the news received at too high a frequency, too much information becomes harmful. And in Chapter x (on ethics) I will show how too much data (particularly when sterile) causes statistics to be completely meaningless. Now let's add the psychological to this: we are not made to understand the point, so we overreact emotionally to noise. The best solution is to only look at very large changes in data or conditions, never small ones"

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William Gunn The Top 10 papers in Biological Sciences by Mendeley readership. With the Mendeley for Life Scientists webinar coming up on Thursday, I thought I would take a look at the readership stats for Biological Sciences. Biological Sciences has long been our biggest discipline, and having done my doctoral work in the Life Sciences, I knew this would be interesting. Overall, researchers in bioinformatics contributed most strongly to the most read papers, along with the older disciplines of micro- and molecular biology. Regardless of discipline, however, it's clear that the days of toiling away in isolation to thoroughly study one gene are over. Today, it's all about huge consortia and massive data. Here's what I found

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Becoming Human is an interactive documentary experience that tells the story of our origins. Journey through four million years of human evolution with your guide, Donald Johanson.

"Science is a scheme for thinking and solving issues using evidence. It requires hypotheses, i.e. potential truths that require examination. A hypothesis or scientific idea is only as strong as the evidence to support it. Strong evidence is predictive and reproducible, weak evidence is less so. Scientific thinking gives greater weight to the stronger evidence base."

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"Michael Nielsen ist Buchautor und ein Vertreter der Open Access/Open Science Bewegung. Sein Buch, „Reinventing Discovery" wird im Oktober bei Princeton University Press erscheinen. Michael Nielsen hat als international renommierter Physiker die Forschung an Quanten-Computern mit begründet, das Standard-Lehrbuch des Gebiets verfasst und über 50 wissenschaftliche Fachartikel publiziert bevor er seine Professur 2008 aufgab um sich voll und ganz der Open Access/Open Science Bewegung zu widmen."

"A Scicurious CV In which Sci can boast about herself. http://scicurious.wordpress.com/ http://scienceblogs.com/neurotopia Professional Honors Semifinalist in the 3 Quarks Daily 2010 Prize in Science: Featured in The Open Laboratory: Best Science Blogging 2008 Blogging Anthology. "Uber Coca, by Sigmund Freud" Featured in The Open Laboratory: Best Science Blogging 2009 Blogging Anthology. "Addiction and the Opponent-Process Theory" Nominated for Eureka's Top 30 Science Blogs at the Times Online."

"Die meisten klassischen Publikationsformen der Wissenschaft entstanden im 17. Jahrhundert: Sie gehen zurück auf Briefsammlungen, die wissenschaftliche Gesellschaften untereinander verschickten. Die Verteilungszyklen richteten sich nach der Frequenz des Postkutschenverkehrs, weshalb man die Briefe für den Versand zusammenband. Dieses Prozedere aufgrund von fast vierhundert Jahren alten Strukturen brachte schließlich die in Ausgaben bestimmter Journale organisierten Artikel hervor."

Cybrary Man's Educational Web Sites The internet catalogue for students, teachers, administrators & parents. Over 20,000 relevant links personally selected by an educator/author with over 30 years of experience.

"Um das Gedächtnis auf Trab zu halten, lösen gerade ältere Menschen oft Kreuzworträtsel oder Sudokus. Das ist laut der neuen Studie von Dewar und ihren Kollegen nicht die Ideallösung, zumindest nicht, wenn direkt nach dem Erlernen der Neuigkeit gespielt wird. Einfach einmal zehn Minuten hinsetzen und nichts tun ist besser - denn dann hat das Gehirn Zeit und Ruhe, sich das neu Erlernte einzuprägen. Das Team von der University of Edinburgh hat dazu zwei Studien durchgeführt. In der ersten erzählten die Wissenschaftler älteren Menschen zwischen 61 und 87 Jahren zwei Kurzgeschichten. Danach durfte eine Gruppe zehn Minuten in einem dunklen Raum pausieren, während die andere ein „Finde den Unterschied"-Spiel am Computer spielte. Anschließend sollten die Probanden die Geschichte möglichst detailgetreu nacherzählen. Nach einer Woche forderten die Forscher sie erneut dazu auf."