Blogs about Science
24 blogs about Science. Page 2 of 2.
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SLIME MOLD TIME MOLD
“Mad Science Blogging.” 🇺🇸Updated
Links for May 2023 One month left in the mysteries contest! Get your submissions in by July 1st. Good luck! ExFatLoss: The Slightly Complicated Theory of Obesity In a sense, nutrition science has maneuvered itself into a corner here. …
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Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science
By Andrew Gelman. 🇺🇸Updated
“The traffic accidents study exposes the lamentable state of Covid-19 science” Kaiser has the story: The recent study tying lack of vaccinations to traffic accidents illustrates everything that is wrong with the state of our peer-reviewed scientific process. The study uses data that do not capture …
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Thinking about Science with David Hukins
“Understanding science NOT learning "facts".” 🇫🇷Updated
23.10 Frequency analysis and x-ray crystallography At the beginning of post 23.4, I described two routes to understanding x-ray crystallography. If you prefer the second, less mathematical, route – ignore this post! Before you read this, I suggest you read post …
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Watered Down Physics
“By Alan Reifman, Non-Physicist.”Updated
Vox Explains Henrietta Leavitt's 1908 Discovery of How to Measure Distances to Stars and Galaxies Vox provides a very clear explanation of Henrietta Leavitt's 1908 discovery that allows us to estimate the distance to stars and galaxies. The book Einstein's Greatest Mistake (which I previously reviewed here) also discusses Leavitt's …
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