Goldacre presents some quick ways to identify when information is being with held, especially in medical studies.
Category: Notes
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“Fooled by Randomness” by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Taleb takes us on a journey through life (with a money market focus) and points out a variety of situations and events that we attribute, incorrectly, to skill. Instead, much of what we chaulk to patterns is actually random noise with no real pattern.
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Annie Murphy Paul: What we learn before we’re born
Babies cry in the accent of their mother’s spoken language. -
Rives: The 4 a.m. mystery
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“The Ultimate Mouthful: Lunge Feeding in Rorqual Whales” by Jeremy A. Goldbogen
We finally understand (mostly at least) how the biggest animals on the planet eat. This article describes the fascinating process that rorqual whales (e.g. blue whales, humpback whales, fin whales) go through to get a little food into their bellies.
It is especially interesting to me that we are barely (in the past decade) getting enough information to piece this process together.
http://www.americanscientist.org/issues/issue.aspx?id=8779&y=0&no=&content=true&page=2&css=print