#hoax #physics The Seven Warning Signs of Bogus Science We all are aware of recent cases of fraud in science. The case of cloning in South Korea is the most recent one, but not the first or the last to happen. Identifying those cases is hard, since most of … ...
#journals #wiki The future of the science might be wiki The Edge has a summary-article on a Kevin Kelly’s talk on The Next 100 Years of Science: Long-term Trends in the Scientific Method. Kevin Kelly helped launch Wiredmagazine in 1993 and has published … ...
#brownian motion #kolmogorov #simulation #stochastic #wiener Writing bad letters of recommendation: the story of Bachelier and Lévy Take a coin and toss it a number \(N\) of times in a time interval of duration \(T\). Suppose that every time you get head you win \(a\) euros and that you lose the same amount of money when you get … ...
#Fluid #Stochastic Differential Equation #Simulation Spreading of Viscous Fluid Drops on a Solid Substrate Assisted by Thermal Fluctuations Authors: Benny Davidovitch, Esteban Moro, and Howard A. Stone Journal: Physical Review Letters 95, 244505 (2005). LINK ...
#brownian motion #diffusion #humans Humans are superdiffusive When tea is poured in a cup of hot water, we observe a phenomenon called diffusion: in the end particles of tea spread evenly throughout the mass of water and we enjoy our cup of tea. Diffusion occurs … ...
#causality #correlation #flying spaghetti monster Cum hoc ergo propter hoc Or… Correlation implies causality. This is a logical fallacy. Keep this in mind when analyzing data. There are numerous cases of how people use this logical fallacy nowadays (most typically in … ...
#curiosity #glaciers Meet the glaciers I have been on holidays during the last two weeks visiting Argentina. The picture above was taken on top of the Perito Moreno glacier, which is amazing. Most glaciers we found where blueish, … ...
#curiosity Folding paper You can’t fold a paper more than seven or eight times. Don’t believe me? Then try it. Thinner paper? Longer paper? It doesn’t matter; you just can’t do it. I used to play this game with my friends … ...
#email #marketing #response rate Why I didn’t answer your email In a recent Nature article, Albert-Lászlo Barabási and João Gama Oliveira, have found the perfect excuse for lazy people not answering some emails in their inbox: they analyzed the time response of … ...
#bibliometrics #h-index A number to rank them all UCSD physicist Jorge E. Hirsch has propose a quick-and-dirty way to measure quality of academic scientist’s output. His method is explained and studied in a paper to be published in the November 15 … ...
