Most of medical science is erroneous? Turns out the scientific method has a lot of holes through which reputation, the pharmaceutical industry, and human bias wreak havoc: http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2010/11/lies-damned-lies-and-medical-science/308269/2/ “We could solve much of the wrongness problem, Ioannidis says, if the world simply stopped expecting scientists to be right. That’s because being wrong in science is fine, and even necessary—as long as scientists recognize that they blew it, report their mistake openly instead of disguising it as a success, and then move on to the next thing, until they come up with the very occasional genuine breakthrough. But as long as careers remain contingent on producing a stream of research that’s dressed up to seem more right than it is, scientists will keep delivering exactly that.” And that’s the problem in the environmental sciences…where a politicized challenge has re-framed the scientific expectations.
Fascinating, “In cities with higher rates of automobile use (roughly 30 percent more driving), about twice as much land is committed to parking for each resident and employee.” More cars leads to less efficient cities: http://www.theatlanticcities.com/commute/2013/02/cars-and-robust-cities-are-fundamentally-incompatible/4651/
And, from the same source, an article about digital shadows. How does access to, writing of, and track-reinforcement in internet communities perpetuate inequalities? http://www.theatlanticcities.com/technology/2013/02/how-internet-reinforces-inequality-real-world/4602/ “The results show, for instance, that the Tokyo metropolitan region is more densely layered with digital content than all of Africa.”
This is one of the most brilliant, useful websites I have come across in a long time. A recipe generator with personality: http://www.whatthefuckshouldimakefordinner.com/
Explore the brain! http://headneckbrainspine.com/web_flash/newmodules/Brain%20MRI.swf
Finally, let’s put our planet, and ourselves, in perspective: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/0f/Earth%27s_Location_in_the_Universe_SMALLER_%28JPEG%29.jpg
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