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Category Archives: Silliness
On the Evolution of Camouflage in Urban Environments
One of my offices is in the Geozentrum in the Goethe University here in Frankfurt. This morning this was on the side of the building: I only saw it because it was flapping about a bit in the wind. If … Continue reading
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How oil companies are helping to combat global warming
I just saw this news that Statoil is to be allowed to drill holes in the bottom of the North Sea: Sure many will be pleased to hear that Statoil have been permitted to conduct a huge development in the … Continue reading
Posted in Friday Fun, Silliness
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Prizes Straight from the Pits of Hell
This should make predicting this year’s science Nobels easier. Last month, Republican congressman Paul Broun, who also happens to be a member of the US House of Representatives science committee, described evolution, the big bang theory and embryology as ‘lies … Continue reading
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Research with impact
After Stephen’s posts about impact factors and the like, I have a couple of serious posts brewing. But for now (and because it’s Friday), I want to admit to my reaction today to an advert I got about a journal, … Continue reading
Posted in Science Publishing, Silliness
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lme4: destined to become stable through rounding?
(this would have appeared on my blog on Nature Network, but the pulled the plug the day before. Sometimes correlation does not mean causation) Fans of R and mixed models are aware of the lme4 package. This started out as … Continue reading
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Stupidity Molecule Identified
Researchers at the University of Utrecht have identified a molecule that could play a key role in controlling how stupid headlines develop in scientific press releases. Neurobiologists are trying to understand how titles that are at first sensible differentiate into … Continue reading
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Selecting Your LOLcats
The internet is a great thing, but it brings with it some problems. One of the future problems that we, as a civilisation, will face is the increased time we will be forced to spend finding the ideal photo for … Continue reading
Posted in Friday Fun, Silliness
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The Reality of Pervasive, err, Something
I’m a fan of good quality graphs, and some just stand out. Including this one, from PLoS Biology last year:
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Friday, Friday
Because it’s Friday, and as a result of something I wrote a couple of weeks ago, I think I need to blog this: see more LOLcats
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Of Variance Interpreted
Last week Tom Webb tweeted this post about R<sup2. In it the Cosma Shalizi argues that it’s wrong to say that “R2 is the proportion of variance explained by the model”. I say not so fast.
