Assorted Links
- FT on the First Quantified Self Conference
- great library of articles about hormesis. Such as Hotel Hormesis (from the MIT undergraduate research journal).
- Pay attention to lunch. “Rated vividness of lunch memory was negatively correlated with snack intake.”
- Dean of medicine at the University of Alberta plagiarizes well-known graduation speech. Philosophy professor says this “merits no more than a wrist-slap.” In an apology, the dean says the actual author “was flattered by my use of his text and took no offense,” apparently unaware that boasting is not appropriate in an apology.
- More plagiarism by Canadian medical school professors — this time in a report on medical ethics.
- The philosophy of CureTogether
Thanks to Grace Jone, Anne Weiss and Bryon Castañeda.
June 14th, 2011 at 10:59 am
Adventures in fudging:
Lewis JE, DeGusta D, Meyer MR, Monge JM, Mann AE, et al. (2011) The Mismeasure of Science: Stephen Jay Gould versus Samuel George Morton on Skulls and Bias. PLoS Biol 9(6): e1001071. doi:10.1371/journal.pbio.1001071
June 14th, 2011 at 11:15 am
Hormesis presumably cuts both ways? Something in the diet that seems to be a Good Thing could become a Very Bad Thing if over-indulged in. Of course Mummy knew this, but does the Nanny State? Come to that, is hormesis at work with exercise for the middle-aged? A bit of light ambling = good, running marathons = bad?
June 14th, 2011 at 5:42 pm
RandomReal: Interesting article about Stephen Jay Gould. Thanks for the tip. Here’s a link to the full text:
http://www.plosbiology.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pbio.1001071
(I never did like Gould much.)