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Things just got worse if you put your faith in the "consensus" about catastrophic anthropogenic global warming (AGW).  You'll recall that the disclosure of internal emails undermined confidence in both the surface temperature record and the peer-review process that qualifies research for inclusion into the...

James Watson, co-discoverer of DNA's double-helix structure recently called for a back to basics approach in dealing with cancer.  In previous post threads I've discussed cancer's complexity and in particular the confounding and scary implications of somatic evolution, which underscores some of the reasons...

The truth is out there. Finally. The NYTimes has a piece on the problems and differences between generic and brand name drugs. Think they are the same? Think again. The article is excellent and I recommend everyone read it. As usual, I will quote liberally, with some of my own commentary. But there is a...

How do we know what we know? If you grew up like me you were brought up in a culture based on a dualist metaphysics, one that asserts that there is an objective reality outside of ourselves (whatever "we" are) and that we know about it indirectly through our senses and conscious reasoning.  This is the...

As you may have heard, an unknown hacker breached the Hadley Climatic Research Centre and disclosed a large volume of email and documents, thus giving us a peek inside the sausage factory. First, let me say that the breach itself rather concerns me. We're talking about a government sponsored research...

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Should be of interest to everyone who reads this blog.  Here's the program, here's the website, and here's some more info that you can't get from either yet: Dear all: Just wanted to share with you all a couple of updates for our Fall Symposium.  We're very pleased to have two invited speakers so far:...

This is a very complex topic, as the following talk suggests: [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eeXtGHSt-5o&feature=related [/youtube] The main takeaways from this that I got are: Cancers for which sunlight deficit is a risk factor are orders of magnitude more prevalent than the few for...

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Heng, et al recently published a review paper that brings together and touches on many different aspects of cancer complexity.  I thought this an opportunity to selectively quote the paper and organize the quotes loosely around various complex systems concepts they relate to.  I'm curious whether this...

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Normally, I don't debate random bloggers on Anthropogenic Global Warming (AGW).  However, I made an exception for Robin Hanson.  For those who don't already know of him, he was both an early proponent of decision markets and has a reasonably well known journal article on why two Bayesian rationalists can't...

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Has anyone played Foldit, the protein-folding game that is designed to advance the science?  This Wired article makes it sound like Ender's Game meets biochemistry!  Sounds like the Poehlman kid is the protein-folding equivalent of Stephen Wiltshire.  I love the crowdsourcing, the meta-evolutionary...

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I have been having a 140 character discussion with Ciarán Brewster (@macbruski) via twitter.  And while it's kind of interesting to force complex subject matter into very few characters, it is limiting the discussion, so I will summarize it so far here and hopefully others can weigh in too. Ciarán...