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• Bad Science » The end of homeopathy?
  Time after time, properly conducted scientific studies have proved that homeopathic remedies work no better than simple placebos. So why do so many sensible people swear by them? And why do homeopaths believe they are victims of a smear campaign? Ben Goldacre follows a trail of fudged statistics, bogus surveys and widespread self-deception.
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• CHANGING ONE SPECIES TO ANOTHER
  Craig Venter has announced the results of his lab's work on genome transplantation methods that allows for the transformation of one type of bacteria into another, dictated by the transplanted chromosome. In other words, one species becomes another.
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• Climate change: A guide for the perplexed - earth - 16 May 2007 - New Scientist Environment
  So for those who are not sure what to believe, here is our round-up of the 26 most common climate myths and misconceptions. There is also a guide to assessing the evidence. In the articles we've included lots of links to primary research and major reports for those who want to follow through to the original sources.
  There's a lot at stake with global warming, so for those not sure what to believe, we've debunked the most common climate myths
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• Creating Passionate Users: The Asymptotic Twitter Curve
  Creating Passionate Users: The Asymptotic Twitter Curve (tags: web2.0, culture, psychology, lifehacks, article)
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• Duguit (2006). Limits of self–organization: Peer production and "laws of quality"
  People often implicitly ascribe the quality of peer–production projects such as Project Gutenberg or Wikipedia to what I call “laws” of quality. These are drawn from Open Source software development and it is not clear how applicable they are outside the realm of software. I look at examples from peer production projects to ask whether faith in these laws does not so much guarantee quality as hide the need for improvement.
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• Edgar Whitley: In cyberspace all they see is your words
  Examines the claims that cyberspace allows individuals to create sustainable new identities. It examines these claims in relation to the ongoing argument about embodiment and information systems. Accepts that computer mediated communication changes the nature of the interaction by removing bodily cues from the process, but argues that creating new identities is not simply a case of using new words. Argues that the choice of words is the result of socialized learning into a particular role, a process that cannot be taught explicitly. Analyses an existing case study and highlights the limitations of playing with an identity into which one has not been socialized. Ends with a discussion of the implications of the ideas presented.
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• Epidemix » Why Does Wikipedia Suck on Science?
  But I find that when it comes to science topics, I often find Wikipedia more of a hinderance than a help. Curious about just what epigenetics is? Figure you really should know what mitochondria do? Don’t count on Wikipedia - odds are their analysis is too pedantic for you, as it is for me.
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• Find Articles - News, Magazine back issues & Reference on all topics
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  Contains articles from the back issues of over 900 magazines, journals, trade publications and newspapers. Search our online article archive or browse by category list or publication name
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• Is Google Too Powerful?
  Is Google Too Powerful? (tags: google, business, web, internet, media, future, microsoft, yahoo, article, toread)
  As the Web giant tears through media, software, and telecom, rivals fear its growing influence
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• Lithoguru » In Defense of Beer-Drinking Scientists
  I was pleased to see that careful reading and analysis of the original published work led to an easy debunking of the silly notion reported in the press that somehow beer drinking was bad for scientific performance.
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• Microsoft is Dead
  When did Microsoft die, and of what? I know they seemed dangerous as late as 2001, because I wrote an essay then about how they were less dangerous than they seemed. I'd guess they were dead by 2005. I know when we started Y Combinator we didn't worry about Microsoft as competition for the startups we funded.
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• MINIX: what is it, and why is it still relevant?
  MINIX: what is it, and why is it still relevant? (tags: os, unix, hackers, article)
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• Pan et al. (2007). In Google We Trust: Users' Decisions on Rank, Position, and Relevance
  An eye tracking experiment revealed that college student users have substantial trust in Google's ability to rank results by their true relevance to the query. When the participants selected a link to follow from Google's result pages, their decisions were strongly biased towards links higher in position even if the abstracts themselves were less relevant. Pan, B., Hembrooke, H., Joachims, T., Lorigo, L., Gay, G., and Granka, L. (2007). In Google we trust: Users' decisions on rank, position, and relevance. Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication, 12(3)
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• The atheist delusion | By genre | guardian.co.uk Books
  An atmosphere of moral panic surrounds religion. Viewed not so long ago as a relic of superstition whose role in society was steadily declining, it is now demonised as the cause of many of the world's worst evils
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• The Economic Consequences of Mr. Bush: Politics & Power: vanityfair.com
  The next president will have to deal with yet another crippling legacy of George W. Bush: the economy. A Nobel laureate, Joseph E. Stiglitz, sees a generation-long struggle to recoup.
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• Windows Is Free (A TLUG Article)
  any debate based on feature, security, or stability comparisons between Linux, Mac, and Windows is a battle of grey perceptions, not black and white certainties. As such, they are eclipsed entirely by the issue of the market distortions of software piracy.
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