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Stephen Wolfram shares interesting Facebook data analysis finds from the Data Donor program of Wolfram|Alpha Personal Analytics for Facebook. 
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High school science teacher Tyler DeWitt was ecstatic about a lesson plan on bacteria (how cool!) -- and devastated when his students hated it. The problem w...
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Nature looks ahead to the key findings and events that may emerge in 2013.
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We found the God particle, learned to make clean energy work, tapped the healing power of germs, explored ancient streams on Mars, and made 96 other stirring advances.
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When scientists and artists don’t typically have professional reasons for mixing, what are the mechanisms that enable collaboration? Is it the sort of thing that happens at a dinner party, where a painter and a biologist unwittingly decide that a collaborative project would be a good idea? That certainly could be the case, but there are other ways in which these things happen.
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Teaching embryos the password for food helps parents avoid having to feed imposters.
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As should be evident, animist ideas are not simple projections of souls and spirits onto the world and everything in it. The animist worldview is far more sophisticated than that, and in some respects science and philosophy have only recently come to understand what animists have known for a very long time.
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Without math, would our seafaring ancestors ever have seen the world? Great mathematical thinkers and their revolutionary discoveries have an incredible story. Explore the beginnings of logarithms through the history of navigation, adventure and new worlds.
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A social media life-vest, a building shaped like a bad acid trip, an abstract look at volcanoes, and more of our favorite images from this week...
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Steve Jones explains why men, scientists, professors and the British are less likely to believe in God than women, children and Americans. Via Religulous
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Economists have shown that cognitive skills — especially math and science — are robust predictors of individual income, of a country’s economic growth, and of the distribution of income within a country (e.g. Hanushek & Kimko, 2000; Hanushek & Woessmann, 2008).
Lindsay Pappalardo's curator insight,
December 11, 2013 7:18 PM
This is great for students who don't think algebra is necessary. This is a different way math can be taught. It would be the teaching of quantitative skills rather than a bunch of abstract formulas. |
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PLOS Biology is an open-access, peer-reviewed journal that features works of exceptional significance in all areas of biological science, from molecules to ecosystems, including works at the interface with other disciplines.
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The New York Times published a little trend piece that argues "social media and science found each other in 2012." Evidence cited: there were scientific
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This image is of a Yanomami indigenous person from the tropical rainforest of the Amazon. Researchers conducting a study in the Rupununi region of Guyana recruited and trained local native people like these to help gather data. They found that the native people were just as capable of systematically recording accurate data as trained researchers, dispelling a theory that some scientists have that the cultural and educational differences between the two are too great for data collected by the former to be reliable.
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A multimedia feature published this week in the New York Times, “Pushing Science’s Limits in Sign Language Lexicon,” outlines efforts in the United States and Europe to develop sign language versions of specialized terms used in science, technology, engineering and mathematics
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If the Earth pulls on the moon, why doesn't the moon fall into the Earth? This has to do with the nature of force and motion.
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Don't aim to be a version of someone else. The greatest people in our society, Tyson argues, are those who have been able to "carve niches that represent the unique expression of their combination of talent."
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Using biological building blocks found inside a living cell, researchers have created a material that moves itself.
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Einstein didn't like quantum mechanics because it wasn't able to make perfect predictions... but science is not about what you like, it's about what's true!
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Wild canines commonly form long-term attachments to their mates, partnering until death. But when resources are plentiful, monogamy is often abandoned.
lagrimitaslililedy's curator insight,
July 24, 2013 3:37 PM
"But when resources are plentiful, monogamy is often abandoned"
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"The web is the Grand Oracle. It sees all and answers all. I wish we had the educational and self-learning edge it gives to today’s generation. In a snap, you can tap it to ask anything about the world we live in, and generally it is pretty accurate answering back. Perhaps, apart from the ‘question of life’ it can answer anything. Who knows, someone might come up with that answer too in due time. But for now, from the purely scientific point of view, you can ask away about life sciences…and all the associated disciplines. Via Shayne Swift, NikolaosKourakos, Lynnette Van Dyke, Lou Salza
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New research methods reveal that babies and young children learn by rationally testing hypotheses, analyzing statistics and doing experiments much as scientists do.
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For those who cannot follow the mathematics, belief in the Higgs is an act of faith, not of rationality. (...) I am an atheist, and I fully recognize science’s indispensable role in advancing human prospects in ways both abstract and tangible. Yet, whereas the Higgs discovery gives me no access to insight about the mystery of existence, a walk through the magnificent temples of Angkor offers a glimpse of the unknowable and the inexplicable beyond the world of our experience.
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August 22, 2012 12:28 PM
Thank you Fico for sharing with us your ideas and your experience.
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We’re starting to be able to train a serious “computational telescope” on the “social universe”. And it’s letting us discover all sorts of phenomena. That have the potential to help us understand much more about society and about ourselves. And that, by the way, provide great examples of what can be achieved with data science, and with the technology I’ve been working on developing for so long.