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David Stern's Blog on Energy, the Environment, Economics, and the Science of Science
Tuesday, April 21, 2009
Take an Economics Test
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U.S. High School "Advanced Placement Economics Test courtesy of the New York Times. I got 18/18 but for a couple of questions that was...
Thursday, April 2, 2009
Academia.edu
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I just got an e-mail about a new social media things called Academia.edu . The organizers state: "Academia.edu was founded by Richard P...
Tuesday, March 17, 2009
How to Get Cited a Lot
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Ultimately for an academic researcher the goal is to get your research cited and used by other people whether in their pure science work or ...
Tuesday, March 10, 2009
Book Reviews: Gladwell
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I read Blink by Malcolm Gladwell. While it is a good read I found it rather frustrating. I agree totally with the tone of the Wikipedia arti...
Wednesday, March 4, 2009
Book Reviews: Zilliak and McCloskey and Taleb
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Shuang brought home borrowed copies of Ziliak and McCloskey's "Cult of Statistical Signficance" and Taleb's "The Bla...
Tuesday, February 3, 2009
Why $950?
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The Australian government announced its second stimulus package today . Included is a bonus payment of "up to $A950" for every wor...
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