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2012-07-19 14:53:10     Our Frugal Future: Lessons from India’s Innovation system - Nesta

http://www.nesta.org.uk/...ons_from_indias_innovation_system

Drawing on the latest data and over 130 interviews with ... policymakers, entrepreneurs and academics, this report e... policies, institutions and industries that are driving r... innovation. It measures how India's research strengths a...
Innovation

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2008-02-27 21:19:43     Estimated impact of publication venues in Computer Science [CiteSeer; Steve Lawrence, Kurt Bollacker, Lee Giles]

http://citeseer.ist.psu.edu/impact.html

Estimated impact of publication venues in Computer Scien... better) - May 2003 (CiteSeer)
Generated from documents in the CiteSeer database. This ...
Impact is estimated using the average citation rate, whe ...

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2016-09-06 13:12:19     Cognitive bias cheat sheet – Better Humans

https://betterhumans.coach.me/...heat-sheet-55a472476b18#...

Every cognitive bias is there for a reason — prima... brains time or energy. If you look at them by the proble... to solve, it becomes a lot easier to understand why they... they’re useful, and the trade-offs (and resulting ment... they introd

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2014-07-11 08:15:41     Scholarly journal retracts 60 articles, smashes ‘peer review ring’ - The Washington Post

http://www.washingtonpost.com/...s-smashes-peer-review-ring/

Every now and then a scholarly journal retracts an artic... errors or outright fraud. In academic circles, and somet... retraction is a big deal.
Now comes word of a journal retracting 60 articles at once.

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2016-09-07 09:15:20     Frontiers for Young Minds

http://kids.frontiersin.org/

Frontiers for Young Minds provides a collection of freel... scientific articles by distinguished scientists that are... audiences by the input of their own young peers.

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2016-04-22 20:55:34     How politicians poisoned statistics - FT.com

http://www.ft.com/...e8-01c7-11e6-ac98-3c15a1aa2e62.html#...

ft.com > life&arts >
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Home UK World Companies Markets Global Economy Lex Comme ...
... icks them out, or makes them up, to suit his purpose.”

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2009-12-28 08:13:43     Hills Criteria of Causation

http://www.drabruzzi.com/hills_criteria_of_causation.htm

Hills Criteria of Causation outlines the minimal conditi... establish a causal relationship between two items. Thes... originally presented by Austin Bradford Hill (1897-1991)... medical statistician as a way of determining the causal ... specific fa

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2007-08-13 08:48:37     TIPS: How to Do Research

http://www.ifs.tuwien.ac.at/~silvia/research-tips/

How to Do Research
* Marie desJardins, SRI International Menlo Park, CA ...
o How to Succeed in Graduate School
o How to Succeed in Postgraduate Study
... ine Sammlung bitterböser Geschichten von Florian Schiel

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2016-03-04 13:43:56    

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/20.../160303145733.htm

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/03/160303145733.htm

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2011-08-23 11:03:49     Writing the Dissertation: One Reason Why it is Difficult « Beki's Blog

http://beki70.wordpress.com/...e-reason-why-it-is-difficult/

I have a theory about why writing the dissertation is su...
The dissertation is a reflective document. It requires i ...
And what self-critical researcher (which of course is wh ...
This is not the writer’s fault. This is the fault of r ...
... I’d l

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2011-11-12 13:26:05    

http://alumni.media.mit.edu/...arlo-rota-10-lessons.html#...

I have been collecting some random bits of advice that I...
Lecturing
Blackboard Technique
Publish the same results several times.
... Be prepared for old age.

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2011-09-05 14:52:06     The Paradox of Openness: Attribution (network ‘whispers’) | Heloukee: EdTech and Digital Culture

http://heloukee.wordpress.com/2011/09/05/attribution/

I’m now going to briefly explore ‘network whispers‮.. content are shared easily through open platforms, and ye... be masked in the flow of dissemination: does credit alwa... due?

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2016-03-31 10:59:42    

https://lareviewofbooks.org/...l-matter-in-the-age-of-google

If anything, the reference system provided by a good citation style has come to matter even more in the age of the internet, rather than being rendered obsolete by the seemingly infinite networking and searchability of texts and other cultu...

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2017-02-06 08:46:22     In referees we trust?: Physics Today: Vol 70, No 2

http://physicstoday.scitation.org/doi/full/10.1063/PT.3.3463

In 1936 refereeing was not a universal practice at the w... scientific journals. It was not even a universal practic... Review. Einstein’s previous submission to that journal... Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen (EPR) paper, was not sent out fo...
So Einstein

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2012-07-27 10:08:19     SerenA | chance encounters in the space of ideas

http://www.serena.ac.uk/

In a recent blog post, Ikka warns that it is all too eac... ‘trapped’ in mindsets and personal routines that shu... potential serendipitous experiences. I think we’ve all... traps at some point in our lives; being too busy to be a...
In this blo

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2010-12-11 00:38:15    

http://psychsciencenotes.blogspot.com/...d-precognition.html

In case you missed it, the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, a flagship APA journal, published a study by Daryl Bem containing evidence for psi (precognition). I didn't really want to post in too much detail about this study (wh...

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2016-04-18 07:58:36     Here's Richard Feynman's simple technique for sorting science from pseudoscience - ScienceAlert

http://www.sciencealert.com/...ng-science-from-pseudoscience

It turns out, all you need to do when you read or hear s... that sounds smart, is try to translate it back into ord... better yet, have the person explain it for you - without... scientific jargon or terms, and see if it still makes sense.

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2007-02-22 10:18:22     Literature Reviews

http://www.unc.edu/depts/wcweb/han.../literature_review.html

Literature Reviews
What this handout is about...
This handout will explain what a Literature Review i ...

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2015-08-21 16:33:55     Academic urban legends

http://sss.sagepub.com/content/44/4/638.full

Many of the messages presented in respectable scientific... in fact, based on various forms of rumors. Some of these... frequently, and in such complex, colorful, and entertain... can think of them as academic urban legends. The explana... phenomenon

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2012-02-27 07:20:15     Nature Editorial: If you want reproducible science, the software needs to be open source

http://arstechnica.com/...-source-according-to-editorial.ars

Modern scientific and engineering research relies heavil... programs, which analyze experimental data and run simula... would be hard-pressed to find a scientific paper (outsid...
Reproducibility refers to the ability to repeat some wor ...
Reproducibi

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2015-08-28 10:23:35     Study reveals that a lot of psychology research really is just 'psycho-babble' - Science - News - The Independent

http://www.independent.co.uk/...t-psychobabble-10474646.html

More than half of the findings from 100 different studie... leading, peer-reviewed psychology journals cannot be rep... researchers who followed the same methodological protocol.
A study by more than 270 researchers from around the wor ...

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2007-10-14 11:32:58     Welcome to the Purdue University Online Writing Lab (OWL)

http://owl.english.purdue.edu/

OWL at Purdue Logo The Purdue Online Writing Lab (OWL)
Welcome to the Purdue OWL. We offer over 200 free resour ...
* Writing and Teaching Writing
* Research
... * Job Search and Professional Writing

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2011-01-14 11:35:11     Papers : mekentosj.com : Software for Research

http://mekentosj.com/papers/

Papers · your personal library of research
Repository of knowledge
Search article repositories and download articles withou ...
All your papers at a glance
... Full screen reading, article notes

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2016-03-08 16:55:15     Statisticians issue warning over misuse of P values : Nature News & Comment

http://www.nature.com/...over-misuse-of-p-values-1.19503?...

Policy statement aims to halt missteps in the quest for ...

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2016-12-27 09:25:00     BBC - Future - The man who studies the spread of ignorance

http://www.bbc.com/...an-who-studies-the-spread-of-ignorance

Proctor had found that the cigarette industry did not wa... know the harms of its product, and it spent billions obs... the health effects of smoking. This search led him to cr...
Agnotology is the study of wilful acts to spread confusi ...
It comes fr

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2016-03-08 16:55:01     Statistics: P values are just the tip of the iceberg : Nature News & Comment

http://www.nature.com/...just-the-tip-of-the-iceberg-1.17412

Ridding science of shoddy statistics will require scruti... not merely the last one

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2014-07-11 08:15:58     SAGE Publications busts “peer review and citation ring,” 60 papers retracted | Retraction Watch

http://retractionwatch.com/...tion-ring-60-papers-retracted/

SAGE Publishers is retracting 60 articles from the Journ... Control after an investigation revealed a “peer review... ring” involving a professor in Taiwan.

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2011-09-19 15:23:54     Science Exchange // The Online Marketplace For Outsourcing Science Experiments

http://scienceexchange.com/about

Science Exchange is an online marketplace for science ex... is to make it easier for researchers to access core reso... institutions. Our first product, ScienceExchange.com bri... research scientists looking to outsource experiments wit... at core fac

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2016-12-06 14:36:27     Cut-throat academia leads to 'natural selection of bad science', claims study | Science | The Guardian

https://www.theguardian.com/...-bad-science-claims-study?...

Scientists incentivised to publish surprising results fr... journals, despite risk that such findings are likely to ... research

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2013-03-06 00:42:37     Can humour make students love statistics? - Vol. 22, Part 3 ( March 2009)

http://www.thepsychologist.org.uk/ar.../archive_home.cfm?...

So this article is my attempt to summarise what I have d... use of humour in teaching. There is rather more written ... students, so I have unashamedly drawn upon the sociology... literature. However, there are similarities between soci... psychology

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