How good is Google Scholar?
I found this paper: The expansion of Google Scholar versus Web of Science: a longitudinal study - See also other interesting papers by the same author: Joost de Winter Abstract…
Human Accomplishment (Charles Murray)
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/282085.Human_Accomplishment http://gen.lib.rus.ec/book/index.php?md5=735E143F5E5C9A49FD1188DA457E8287&open=0 This book was very interesting much of the time, somewhat interesting some of the time, and dumb at some time. However, the first part was much larger…
Review: The Signal and the Noise
The Signal and the Noise Why So Many Predictions Fail - but Some Don’t Nate Silver 544p It is a pretty interesting book especially becus it covers some areas…
Paper: A plea for science studies (Phillip Kitcher)
This was interesting. A_Plea_for_Science_Studies_Philip_Kitcher
Why Open Access is a moral imperative
i hav riten about it befor, but here is som mor i came acros. Found via: https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130117/03040821712/scientist-explains-why-putting-research-behind-paywall-is-immoral.shtml For general public: http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/blog/2013/jan/17/open-access-publishing-science-paywall-immoral http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/story.asp?sectioncode=26&storycode=417576&c=1 http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2012/jul/15/free-access-british-scientific-research Background material for the curious: Blog series:…
Proposal: A graphical tool to explore relationships between academic papers
Background Lately I've been interested in cluster analysis and factor analysis. These two families of analyses have extremely many practical data-related uses. So far I've begun cluster analyzing Wikipedia to…
Paper: “Positive” Results Increase Down the Hierarchy of the Sciences
http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0010068 The hypothesised Hierarchy of the Sciences (henceforth HoS) is reflected inmany social and organizational features of academic life. When 222 scholars rated their perception of similarity between…
Some random things that i read recently+thoughts
http://www.chicagotribune.com/sns-rt-brazil-prisonreadingl2e8hp75l-20120625,0,7694158.story This is an interesting idea. - http://news.yahoo.com/math-anxiety-school-scientists-too-190128180--abc-news-tech.html http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2012/06/22/1205259109 Not surprised. Surely, there is a similar aversion among filosofy students at my university to logic, since its the formal near-equivalent…