Science Education & Policy
- When Smart Kids Fail
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Bright people run into two curses in life that others mistake as blessings. The first is that many tasks come easy to them. The second is that they can do okay for a long time without experiencing failure or set-backs. Both of these lead to a life of un ...
Article - Alex "Sandy" Antunes - May 16 2011 - 8:48am
- The Ohio State Science Day
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Article - Mark Berman - May 18 2011 - 4:01pm
- Should Scientists Be Exempt From Freedom Of Information Requests?
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During the ClimateGate scandal, researchers at East Anglia were not found to be manipulating data but were stonewalling Freedom of Information requests, the bedrock of a democratic science society since the work is financed by taxpayers. ...
Blog Post - Hank Campbell - May 26 2011 - 1:00pm
- Complexity And Randomness
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Complexity and Randomness This pattern is from System's thinker Gerald Weinberg, and has been extremely helpful to illustrate the difference between complexity and randomness. It is also a nice example of the self-referential methodology of PAC, as t ...
Article - Kees Pieters - Feb 27 2013 - 10:21pm
- The Pattern Of Contextual Diminution
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The Pattern of Contextual Diminution This pattern is a bit more involved,as it combines a number of other patterns. It also adds to theself-referential nature of PAC, as it describes the dynamics of anepistemological system, such as PAC. MethodologicalStu ...
Article - Kees Pieters - Jun 8 2011 - 11:00am
- Complexity And Postmodernism
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In my previous post, I defended a 'post-modern' stance in science, as I consider quest for singular concepts to explain all kinds of things to be somewhat outdated. Or, to be more precise, it is rather stupid to consider oneself a 'complexi ...
Article - Kees Pieters - Feb 27 2013 - 10:20pm
- Obama's "Gainful Employment" Rules For Colleges And What It Means For Science
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You've seen the advertisements on television; schools that market heavily with dubious promises of how wonderful the job market is, but then students who incur student loan debt to get those degrees- loans which are unlimited since the government in t ...
Article - Hank Campbell - Jun 14 2011 - 6:21pm
- Complexity And Rationality
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Now we've covered the relationships with postmodernity in the previous post, (I promise not to bring it up again, but I have recently been accused quite often to be 'almost postmodern', which-being an engineer myself- I find rather absurd) ...
Article - Kees Pieters - Jun 20 2011 - 2:45pm
- The Singularity Hypothesis: A Scientific and Philosophical Assessment
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Springer has commissioned an edited volume about the singularity hypothesis and related questions, intelligence explosion, acceleration, transhumanism, and whole brain emulation. “The book examines answers to central questions which reformulate the singul ...
Blog Post - Sascha Vongehr - Jun 17 2011 - 11:40pm
- Complexity And Professionalism
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According to Karl Popper, there are two contexts at work when trying to understand science. One is called 'the context of discovery', the other 'context of justification'. In many ways all human cognitive activities share similar divisi ...
Article - Kees Pieters - Feb 27 2013 - 10:19pm
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