Noam Chomsky Addresses the Adjunct Faculty Association of the United Steelworkers Edited transcript of remarks given by Chomsky via Skype on 4 February 2014 to a gathering of members and allies of the Adjunct Faculty Association of the United Steelworkers in Pittsburgh, PA. The tra[...]
Posts Tagged ‘Science’
March 3rd, 2014 - 10:10 am § in Uncategorized
FAUX SCIENCE
Earth’s gravity affects gene expression New York, March 2 – The Earth’s gravity, or the lack of it, surely affects us in more ways than one, and some of them in unexpected manner – for instance the expression of genes. In the case of cancer, some tumours are much less aggress[...]
Are Robots Writing Papers? Embroidering Facts Leads to Pubication
Nature reports that computer-generated fake papers are flooding academia Jeremy Stribling, Dan Aguayo and Maxwell Krohn. three MIT graduate students created SCIgen, a computer program that writes academic papers. In 2005, they submitted one of the papers to a conference, and it was accepte[...]
February 12th, 2014 - 4:52 am § in Schools & Colleges
Dumbing Down Math .. a Step Toward Abortion?
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Cell Charges Taxpayers $31.50 for Their Own Property
Tax payers here and elsewhere are being gipped by publishers who claim copyrights to the scientific literature. As an example, this article in Cell was supported by several grants from the National Institutes of Health (R01 AG034504, R01 AG030146, P30 AG10161, R01 AG17917, R01 AG15819, K08 AG034290,[...]
February 8th, 2014 - 2:36 am § in Schools & Colleges
US Science Sinks, End of an era.
All of my life, the promise of US, my country, as the home of science, has been true .. not so much anymore. Chris Spaeth, a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, having seen the federal budget that came out of the joint Appropriations Committee, is l[...]
BREAKING NEWS: Jimmy Carter Announces Near Wipe Out of a Disease
Guinea Worm Disease[...]
SUNDAY REVELATIONS: Why Science is Biblical
“We’re in for a thrill,” Based on a UCSF news release If religions are based on stories of miracles, this account of a symposium recognizing the winners of the 2014 Breakthrough Prizes is biblical. Chancellor of UCSF, Susan Desmond-Hellman, MD, MPH, started the meeting o[...]
Test Tube Fusion
Fusion energy research has reached a significant milestone, Nature magazine reported Wednesday. Scientists at Lawrence Livermore Laboratory have achieved “fusion fuel gains exceeding unity on the US National Ignition Facility using a ‘high-foot’ implosion method.” In plain English,[...]