13 things that do not make sense

An article in New Scientist. The first thing that makes no sense is the placebo effect, which may or may not be real.

Bioweka

An extension to weka for bioinformatics exists. Their added feature list is impressive.

Bioweka

Wheat

A fascinating history of wheat in the Economist. Link. Also: Golden rice

giftornot.com

Many real alive people are writing articles about this gift ideas website. I endorse this product.

Forecasting

An interesting New Yorker article on forecasting and ostensible expertise.


There are also many studies showing that expertise and experience do not make someone a better reader of the evidence. In one, data from a test used to diagnose brain damage were given to a group of clinical psychologists and their secretaries. The psychologists’ diagnoses were no better than the secretaries’.


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Spicy food and cancer

This article has some interesting statistics about cancer and spicy/Indian food. At least something that's good for cancer tastes good... Good blog too.

NY Times articles

I recently found out that you can read an NYT article all on one page, by adding ?pagewanted=all to the end of the url. This bookmarklet also does the trick.

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