Posted on Jul 17, 2014 | Comments Off on Fisher v. University of Texas at Austin – Appeals Court Upholds Race-Based Admissions
“The way to stop discrimination on the basis of race is to stop discriminating on the basis of race” – Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts, Parents Involved in Community Schools v. Seattle School District No. 1 ruling (2007)
In 2007, Roberts issued those words, because a Seattle school district failed to show how its racial policies to achieve desegregation by mandating segregation...
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Posted on Jul 15, 2014 | Comments Off on Environmental Accountability: What America Gets Wrong, Canada And India Get Right
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In America, radical environmental groups get something of a cultural free pass. It's understandable, because America is a two-party country. Due to that, otherwise scientifically literate Democrats will rationalize the anti-vaccine, anti-GMO and anti-nuclear members under their umbrella as being 'anti-corporate' while scientifically literate Republicans don the same blinders about climate...
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Posted on Jul 15, 2014 | Comments Off on The Big Data Problem Will Also Be A Problem For Science 2.0
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George Dyson. Credit: edge.orgIf you read about Big Data for very long, a quote from science historian George Dyson is sure to come up: "Big data is what happened when the cost of keeping information became less than the cost of throwing it away." That will be a platform to talk about the challenges, etc.But there is a bigger problem that shows the challenges of Big Data - that isn't what...
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Posted on Jul 15, 2014 | Comments Off on Going Deep With David Rees – Fun Science For The Family
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"Going Deep" With David Rees premieres tonight on National Geographic Channel and if you have little time to decide whether or not to watch it, you are in luck because I can be brief - it's a good show. "Going Deep" is fun for all ages and levels of expertise because he starts into the concepts and then really goes deep, just like he says he will.
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Posted on Jul 14, 2014 | Comments Off on Sexist Weather And Hermaphroditic Frogs: The Problem Of Faux Peer Review
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In today's Wall Street Journal, I have an article discussing recent problems in peer review.
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