Macroscope

To Throw Away Data: Plagiarism as a Statistical Crime

Thu, 18 Apr 2013 00:00:00 EST

Whether data are numerical or narrative, removing them from their context represents an act of plagiarism

The Music of Math Games

Thu, 14 Feb 2013 11:00:00 EST

Video games that provide good mathematics learning should look to the piano as a model

Do We Really Need the S-word?

Thu, 13 Dec 2012 11:00:00 EST

The use of “significance” in reporting statistical results is fraught with problems—but they could be solved with a simple change in practice

An Interlude with Dirac

Mon, 15 Oct 2012 11:00:00 EST

A geodesist remembers Paul Dirac’s visit to the University of Hawaii Lunar Laser Ranging Observatory

The Survival of the Fittists

Thu, 09 Aug 2012 11:00:00 EST

Understanding the role of replication in research is crucial for the interpretation of scientific advances

Accounting for Climate in Ranking Countries’ Carbon Dioxide Emissions

Thu, 14 Jun 2012 11:00:00 EST

A system that includes the variable of local climate provides a fairer measure of carbon dioxide emissions

Science Needs More Moneyball

Thu, 12 Apr 2012 11:00:00 EST

Baseball’s data-mining methods are starting a similar revolution in research

The British Longitude Act Reconsidered

Thu, 09 Feb 2012 11:00:00 EST

Was it responsible governance or was it subterfuge?

Freakonomics: What Went Wrong?

Mon, 12 Dec 2011 16:00:00 EST

Examination of a very popular popular-statistics series reveals avoidable errors

Lessons of the Lost

Thu, 13 Oct 2011 13:00:00 EST

Amphibians are all but gone, bequeathing us lessons that must not be squandered

From Research to Reality

Thu, 11 Aug 2011 00:00:00 EST

To understand her son’s birth defect, a mother makes an emotional and scientific journey

Aging: To Treat, or Not to Treat?

Mon, 13 Jun 2011 15:00:00 EST

The possibility of treating aging is not just an idle fantasy

The Man Behind the Curtain

Thu, 14 Apr 2011 11:00:00 EST

Physics is not always the seamless subject that it pretends to be

When PPLO Became Mycoplasma

Thu, 10 Feb 2011 00:00:00 EST

The smallest cell has had a long career in the spotlight

Spectator at the Disaster

Fri, 10 Dec 2010 11:00:00 EST

Nature in violent action can be spectacle, tragedy and object of scientific wonder all at once

Strategy Versus Evolution

Thu, 07 Oct 2010 00:00:00 EST

Reaching President Obama’s CO₂ emissions goal for 2050 will require strategic planning

Zeroing in on Cancer

Thu, 12 Aug 2010 14:00:00 EST

As targeted cancer therapies get more specific, the targets get rarer

The Widening Gyrus

Thu, 10 Jun 2010 11:00:00 EST

Concert pianists could be model organisms for studying the physiological basis of intellectual greatness

Designing Minds

Thu, 15 Apr 2010 11:00:00 EST

How should we explain the origins of novel behaviors?

Just-as-good Medicine

Tue, 09 Feb 2010 10:30:00 EST

Less expensive, lower-quality innovations abound in every economic sector—except medicine