Tuesday, January 31, 2006

Today I felt as if I was not in Japan, but in the Alabama of the 1950s. I've been made to feel less than human, like an animal

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Japanese resident Steve McGowan yesterday, having just lost his case for racial discrimination after a shop-keeper refused him service for b...
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"Stark warning over climate change"

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The BBC News got itself into a tizzy recently over a "major report" which apparently said Rising concentrations of greenhouse gas...
Monday, January 30, 2006

OK, don't eat it then!

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Following on from this story , and the ongoing fuss over Japanese "research" whaling, I was amused by the wording in this story i...
Tuesday, January 24, 2006

Probability, prediction and verification IV: More on Bayesian vs frequentist uncertainty

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Having received some correspondence relating to this post, I think it might be worth exploring the issues in a little more detail. The ques...
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Monday, January 23, 2006

Quote of the day

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"Encouragingly, we did also find some evidence of the penetration of the Mediterranean diet into Scotland, albeit in the form of deep-f...
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Sunday, January 22, 2006

University of Tokyo professor fakes paper on human enzyme experiment

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Wonder how much attention this fraud will get, coming hot on the heels of the Korean scandal. It seems like he's been under investigati...
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Yuki Daruma

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Shortly after arriving in Japan, we found a postcard with a picture of our local temple (Zuisenji) in deep snow. We wondered what we had let...
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Saturday, January 21, 2006

Just eat it!

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According to the BBC, the nation is gripped by the story of a lost whale stuck in the Thames. I can guess what would happen if it turned u...
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Friday, January 20, 2006

Peer Review

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The Hwang stem cell thing has provoked some soul-searching about the peer review process and whether it could be improved. Kevin Vranes a...
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Wednesday, January 18, 2006

Prometheus: Myanna Lahsen's Latest Paper on Climate Models Archives

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Roger Pielke Jnr has posted up excerpts from an interesting paper by Myanna Lahsen on climate modellers and the "trough of uncertainty...
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