Tuesday Triple Trivia Tease for September 23, 2014
3 Questions. 3 Hints. 3 Answers. Every Tuesday. 1. Look at your computer screen (in 5 years). What do you see? Hint: Answer: meet your doppelgänger. John Smart, futurist and founder of the Acceleration Studies Foundation, predicts that we will soon be able to have a carbon copy our very selves in digital form. Our […]
Wednesday Web Watch: Public vs. Private Scientific Research – an ethical difference?
Wednesday Web Watch: Is a new blog component where we link to a relevant external blog and site and promote the site in a window (to right of our posts) for the duration of the month. This week’s site is The Guardian Headquarters which features an article by Chris Chambers entitled Facebook fiasco: was Cornell’s […]
Tuesday Triple Trivia Tease for May 20, 2014
3 Questions. 3 Hints. 3 Answers. Every Tuesday. 1. What recently reported spurious correlation emphasizes the importance of logical theory? Hint: Answer: though there is a correlation between U.S. spending on science and suicides by hanging (and suffocation & strangulation) it is a spurious correlation. There are many other examples of illusory correlations that have surfaced […]