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Vaughan Bell of Mind Hacks links to a forthcoming Perspectives on Psychological Science article by Edward Vul et al. that is sure to prove a “bombshell” for the field of cognitive neuroscience. Vul’s analysis demonstrates, in rigorous detail, how the too-good-to-be-true results of (mostly) headline studies are produced by complex statistical errors and biases.
Vul’s analysis [...]
Nick Montford of Grand Text Auto unveils his students’ beautiful new Web edition of the first anthology of Imagist poetry, edited by Ezra Pound and published in 1914. “Des Imagistes was not (as far as I could determine) previously available online, isn’t in print, and is not even very easily found in libraries. We don’t [...]
In a story related to yesterday’s post on the new NYC Transit window ads, it was noted that the semi-transparent film on which these ‘wrap ads’ are printed is manufactured by 3M for specifically that purpose.
Paul J. Fleuranges, a spokesman for New York City Transit, said the agency hoped that the film, called Scotchcal, would [...]
Massimo Pigliucci of Rationally Speaking has a short post up on the many problems with “the idea that the DNA sequence of an organism’s genome is analogous to a computer ‘program,’ and that it provides the ‘blueprint’ for building said organism.”
He then goes on to list the many ways in which this idea of ‘mapping’ [...]
I’ve been racking my brain trying to recall other instances where advertising has been used as a crime deterrence strategy - or at least this is what NYC Transit authorities are giving as the reason behind their new ad policy. According to Jennifer 8. Lee of the New York Times:
“Despite the M.T.A. budget shortfall, transit [...]
Squatter City has a post up describing one Miami group’s success in solving two not-unrelated problems: homelessness and foreclosure.
“A brilliant program from a Miami group vets homeless families and then moves them into foreclosed housing. The program is, at least technically, illegal. But no arrests have been made, and it seems a clearheaded way to [...]
Void Manufacturing has posted a translation, by Patrice Riemens, of an interview with Paul Virilio, where he discusses the ongoing financial collapse. He begins by applying his well-known theory of accidents to the current crisis:
“With Tchernobyl, we have entered the era of global accidents, whose consequences are in the realm of the long term. The [...]
Reviewing Roberto Esposito’s Bios, Steven Shaviro of The Pinocchio Theory gives an excellent two-fold argument for how biopolitics scholarship generally fails to adequately reflect on global shifts in medical and economic practices since Foucault first put forth the theory in the late 70s/early 80s.
It is telling that Esposito says nothing whatsoever about the ways in [...]
Location: The Change You Want To See, Brooklyn, NY
Address: 84 Havemeyer Street, Storefront, Brooklyn, NY
Date: 17 December 2008 @ 7.30 PM - 10.30 PM
Over the past two years, Web 2.0 technologies have matured and so have the methods activist use to employ them. In 2008, activists from around the world used Web 2.0 to take [...]
In his recent Reason article on “justice porn” Greg Beato notes, in passing, that the realistic sets of tv courtrooms reimagine real courts as so many “fetish props” assembled.
“But instead of emphasizing their status as private arbitrators who offer a different approach to dispute resolution than the U.S. court system, they present themselves as that [...]
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