The science of boiling an egg. http://bit.ly/jfgsOT

..a lack of openness to experience, and a need for order, structure, and closure. http://www.badscience.net/?p=2314

Scientists seek to implant embryos with genetic material from three parents http://bit.ly/hzLge3

We have a duty to base our judgments on the best available information. This is not only because we owe it to other people to represent the issues fairly, but also because we owe it to ourselves not to squander our lives on fairytales. A great wrong has been done by this movement. We must put it right.

Millions of Spiders in Pakistan Encase Entire Trees in Webs http://bit.ly/hprB4Y

Letters: Irish giant should be buried, not gaped at http://bit.ly/hXtgnq

Cranberry Juice http://bit.ly/gQDpFe

In one area, however, philosophers have taken a great interest in fashionable nonsense and in many cases have also fallen for it. I refer to what the philosopher, poet and neurologist Raymond Tallis calls “neurotrash”. By this he means the rewriting of the human person as the human brain, and using the resulting pseudoscience as a purported answer to some philosophical problem – as in Libet on free will, Zeki on aesthetic taste, Ramachandran on self-knowledge and “mirror neurons”, Joshua Greene on moral reasoning, and a thousand similar attempts to reduce the I to the fMRI.

These cases have three things in common. First, they are all fears directed at technologies or policies with a clear public benefit. Second, the worry is always about some invisible or undetectable feature of our micro-environment, the alleged negative effects conjured out of radio waves, parts-per-billion, and statistical anomalies. And finally, the strong public resistance to these activities takes place not despite official statements that they are completely safe, but in many cases because of those assurances.

In effect, this gives the Egyptian state a monopoly on statistics, and for 30 years (at least) Capmas has been headed not by professional statisticians but by a succession of major-generals from the military.

ولكنى دخلت فى صراع مع البيروقراطية المصرية العتيدة طيلة السنوات الماضية دون أن أصل إلى شىء، هذه البيروقراطية العفنة التى يتمسك بها هؤلاء السادة، تخرج كالسيف من غمده عندما يريدون التخلص من إنسان، وتختفى تماما عندما يريدون الاحتفاظ بآخر، ورأيت فى النهاية أنه لابد لى أن أقدم استقالتى، وأنه لا فائدة من هذا الصراع مطلقا إلا تضييع الوقت والجهد، وليس كما يقول السيد العميد، إنهم رفضوا الاستقالة حرصا على مستقبلى، وهذا بالطبع هراء لا يمكن أن يصدقه أحد.

Good to know that someone is paying attention to what this guy is doing.

Ah and he thinks Gamal Mubarak should be the president because, like him, was raised in a 'military house' and that his dad is one of 3 people who fully understand the Middle East. Big crackpot 3ars.

Scientific journal Nature is being sued for libel by the former editor of another science journal.

An Egyptian charlatan/scientist who published his own papers in his journal (published by El Sevier). When exposed, he threatened with libel. Claims that his work deserves a Nobel prize.

A crackpot Egyptian physicist.

I went through eight years of training to become a surgeon, and yet I still see mistakes every week. So we decided to try something new, which was a checklist. We worked with Boeing to learn how they made checklists for cockpits. We made a two-minute checklist for operating rooms.

Readers have much to learn from Gladwell the journalist and essayist. But when it comes to Gladwell the social scientist, they should watch out for those igon values.

The uncertainty in the magnitude of a measured quantity is more important as the value itself.

I propose that the point of this isn't to replicate "open source" as we know it in software. The point is to create the essential foundations for distributed science so that it can emerge in a form that is locally relevant and globally impactful. We can do this. But we have to be relentless in questioning our assumptions and in discovering the interventions necessary to make this happen. We don't want to wake up in ten years and realize we missed an opportunity by focusing on the software model instead of designing an open system out of which open science might emerge on its own.

3.7m experiments on animals in one year!!!

the semen displacement theory

The Global Forum's vision is of a world in which the potential of research and innovation is fully utilized to address the health problems of the poor. Innovation is defined as the creation, development and implementation of a new product, process or service, with the aim of improving efficiency, effectiveness or competitive advantage. Research for health therefore goes far beyond medicine and biology, to include sectors such as economics, environment, politics, sociology and others. Innovating for the health of all involves both social and technological innovation.

Positivism is the most evolved stage of society in anthropological evolutionism, the point where science and rational explanation for scientific phenomena develop.

This sounds like a joke.