Category: Scientific method
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The true Turing Test. Thinking like a woman. Being a true scientist.
You may have heard that the Turing Test, that old test of machine intelligence proposed by pioneering mathematician Alan Turing in 1950, has been passed (or at least claimed to have been passed) by computer bots emulating human responses to questions. What you may not have heard, though, is how profoundly bizarre Alan Turing’s original…
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Bad science, humility, virtues.
Among Stanford University's palm trees and sandstone arches—the picture of ivory-tower—there's going to be a center dedicated to chipping away that ivory, The Economist reports. The university plans to open a Meta-Research Innovation Center: a center for the study of bad science. The center will take aim at biomedical studies that are poorly designed, are…
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Science, scientific method, knowing...
The closest and brightest supernova in decades, SN 2014, brightens faster than expected for Type Ia supernovae, the exploding stars used to measure cosmic distances, according to astronomers. Another recent supernova also brightened faster than expected, suggesting that there is unsuspected new physics going on inside these exploding stars. (1) We expect things to happen.…
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Hunting dark matter. Creating our ghosts...
The hunt for dark matter. (1) I will not stop saying again and again the obious: Calling something by a name does not necessarily make you a "scientist". Letting others call something by a specific name (e.g. "God") does make you a FREE thinker though... Science needs imagination. Not crude definitions.
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I know the "involved" mechanism... (and other science jargon tricks)
Scientists have identified a key molecule responsible for triggering the chemical processes in our brain linked to our formation of memories. The findings, published in the journal Frontiers in Neural Circuits, reveal a new target for therapeutic interventions to reverse the devastating effects of memory loss. The BBSRC-funded research, led by scientists at the University…
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