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One of the delights of the books and the blog is the authors’ willingness to play with ideas and consider alternative explanations. But unquestioning trust in friends and colleagues combined with the desire to be counterintuitive appear in several cases to have undermined their work. They—and anyone who wishes to convey economics and statistics to a popular audience—just need to take the next step and avoid, in any given example, privileging one story over all other possibilities.
Freakonomics: What Went Wrong?
posted by RogerB
on Dec 13, 2011 -
52 comments
"Tired of arguing with climate change deniers in 140 character quips, [programmer Nigel Leck] wrote a script to do it for him. Chatbot
@AI_AGW scans Twitter every five minutes searching for hundreds of phrases that fit the usual denier argument paradigm. Then it serves them up some science." (
via by way of
via)
posted by m0nm0n
on Nov 4, 2010 -
57 comments
Need some light reading? Popular Science has put its entire 137-year catalog online for
free.
posted by backseatpilot
on Mar 4, 2010 -
36 comments
Better than blood? A man-made, pure-white compound called Oxycyte carries oxygen 50 times as effectively as our own blood.
An interesting development for brain trauma patients, HIV in blood transfusions, and the artificial human.
posted by YoBananaBoy
on Jun 5, 2007 -
38 comments
Your iPod is Doomed! Or it can be, it can also be
Zelda'ed if you prefer!
ipodlinux.org has ported Linux to the iPod (for Linux, Windows and Mac) and, once its installed, you can load up all
kinds of good stuff including the aforementioned Doom, as well as the entire
Wiki or use your iPod as a
Gameboy! And all without screwing up your existing music files (though there are no guarantees).
posted by fenriq
on Jun 21, 2006 -
32 comments
