Random journeys through Science

Blog related to the forthcoming book "In the Country of the Blindfolded", which is a rather large report on personal view on the more curious and funny aspects of science. Unfortunately, quite often, it is funny and deeply disquieting at the same time.

Wednesday, 16 September 2009

You call this science???

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I have not written much in the past months, being focused on work and writing some articles on simulations of uman societies. However, the n...

Thursday, 23 July 2009

Interesting links

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This time for almost purely informational: I have stumbled upon a few very interesting links. The first is to a set of Richard Feynman physi...

Tuesday, 30 June 2009

Decision making efficiency

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I have been studying opinion formation for some time now, with a few papers published or to be published. Generally, my outlook on the capac...

Monday, 29 June 2009

Scare the public!!!

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It seems that one of the duties of so called "science journalism" is to scare the general public witless. It is not so difficult, ...

Friday, 26 June 2009

Where do wars come from?

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I have found - by a curious accident - a very interesting article by Samuel Bowles: Did Warfare Among Ancestral Hunter-Gatherers Affect the ...

Sunday, 26 April 2009

SkyNet?

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As the new terminator movie approaches the notion of people building Skynet Artificial Intelligence seems a dark prospect. Yet there is some...

Peer review in practice

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It is worse than I thought. submission date: March 6th sent to referees: March 24 (why wait almost three weeks?) on April 14h reminder...

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Wanderer in the country of blindfolded: I am an ex-physicist, who, while wandering through corporate high-tech jobs does not want to lose contact with science. On the contrary, since I have left my own discipline, I managed to learn more than ever. All my aim here is to encourage you to do the same.

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