Tweet Michael Nielsen has a great post on why open science is failing to take off. His main point is that science was never that open to start with, but thanks to the communication needs of the time and the technology available people developed the peer review system. A system that is now hauting us, [...]
Archive for August, 2008
August 15, 2008
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Academics: What are the one or two biggest wastes of time?
By jose in Time managementTweet I think if we all put together a list, it’s going to be easy to identify these troublemakers and avoid them. Actually, a better question would be what are the activities that get the most bang for your time, but they may vary a lot from discipline to discipline. Straightforward application of Pareto’s principle [...]
August 15, 2008
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The non application of cognitive psychology to learning
By shane in Time managementTweet I was recently involved in a project where I needed to examine some research literature on learning and memory. In particular, I was investigating the spaced learning effect on memory. Memory research has been central to psychology for as long as psychology has existed as an academic discipline, and the spacing effect (also known [...]
August 12, 2008
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Why productivity fades with age: The crime–genius connection
By jose in Resources, WritingTweet I found interesting this paper by Kanazawa (2004). It proposes that ‘both crime and genius stem from men’s evolved psychological mechanism which compels them to be highly competitive in early adulthood but ‘‘turns off’’ when they get married and have children.’ He thinks testosterone may be one reason for productivity. This part is particularly [...]