O Crominho do Técnico

Holy shit, that’s a lot of data (read, work). In case you’re interested, you can read the paper here (it’s free!).

Maybe a bit too late this far along in my grad school experience, but I’d just like to share that I’ve been reading on my spare (cough, cough) lab time The Visual Display of Quantitative Information. I truly recommend this book for anyone dealing with quantitative data and that cares about presenting it in papers [...]

A Sarah Palin tem um artigo de opinião no Washington Post que remata da seguinte forma: In his inaugural address, President Obama declared his intention to “restore science to its rightful place.” But instead of staying home from Copenhagen and sending a message that the United States will not be a party to fraudulent scientific [...]

O NYT tem um artigo interessante intitulado “Banking on a Ph.D. ‘Ecosystem’ to Drive New Economies“. O artigo refere as dificuldades de países onde não existem Silicon Valleys – considerado um local com características únicas no mundo – conseguirem aliar um alto nível de educação com empreendorismo. A certa altura, o artigo refere: Translating research [...]

The marshmallow experiment is a famous test of this concept conducted by Walter Mischel at Stanford University and discussed by Daniel Goleman in his popular work. In the 1960s, a group of four-year olds were given a marshmallow and promised another, only if they could wait 20 minutes before eating the first one. Some children [...]

Or, actually, Texas:

Nature’s editor says (bolds are mine): A phylogenetic analysis of swine-origin H1N1 influenza A virus provides evidence that the virus is a reassortment possessing genes from avian, swine and human origin viruses. The pandemic virus appears to have evolved in way typical of swine flu sequences prior to entering humans, and is derived from several [...]

Here’s a report fresh out of science for your enjoyment. Get it here.

Algo pesado, mas interessante, nao obstante!