by Tom | Mar 3, 2010 | Science
Interesting to see that current research is suggesting that multitasking is harmful to performance. There’s even an expert lecturer who has banned note taking in his lectures. It seems that a large chunk of the research is on people who are learning something...
by Tom | Mar 1, 2010 | Science
…is very poor according to a new study, and the ones that preceded it. Summary: few claims in medical drug advertisements refer to high-quality studies that support the claims. This is not a good situation vis-a-vis homeopathy, for example.So my positive take...
by Tom | Mar 1, 2010 | Science
Apparently we’ve invented the mathematical techniques to recover high-resolution images from low-resolution samples. So all my harrumphing as CSI zooms in on CCTV images may be about to be invalidated. The technique uses the concept of sparsity (a friend’s...
by Tom | Feb 25, 2010 | Science
Lovely Mash on homeopathy:The report could see government funding into the not-treatment being stripped back to £1 as according to homeopathic theory it will have the same effect as giving them £100 million.Let’s hope the Simon Singh appeal goes...
by Tom | Feb 24, 2010 | Reading, Science
Useful to read some challenge to thinking, but always critical to weigh new point evidence against the full set.The contention from Stanford is that some farmers may find increasing crop prices beneficial. And this could well be true, just as the Southern UK should...
by Tom | Feb 15, 2010 | Reading, Science
I loved the story behind the Alpher-Bethe-Gamow paper, but the Cox-Zucker has to be up there as well.
