[lagerstarfish]

oof

http://www.cmu.edu/news/stories/archives/2015/december/diet-and-environment.html

[lagerstarfish]

I suggest we eat the really fat people

[tomtom]

Have you noticed all the TV ads for bingo (or web based bingo shizz) have fat people playing/gambling....

I suggest we eat the really fat people

[lagerstarfish]

yeah, but is it science

social science is dodgy enough, but "youth studies"?

http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/13676261.2015.1020925?tokenDomain=eprints&tokenAccess=kZqDud4792xPwZWPq8Fv&forwardService=showFullText&doi=10.1080%2F13676261.2015.1020925&journalCode=cjys20

[slackline]

Is 'fat' to be defined in absolute terms or relative to the observer?

[Oldmanmatt]

Is 'fat' to be defined in absolute terms or relative to the observer?

Possibly relative to appetite during meal selection?

You could call it the Dahmer scale...



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[slackline]

Limited in scope but interesting, be good to see if the finding holds true in a broader subject and more forums assessed*...

Cole J, Watkins C, Kleine D Health Advice from Internet Discussion Forums: How Bad Is Dangerous? J Med Internet Res 2016;18(1):e4



* Many findings from small studies don't replicate in larger studies.

[Stu Littlefair]

Well. Fuck me.

http://m.caltech.edu/news/caltech-researchers-find-evidence-real-ninth-planet-49523

 Turns out hamlet was right.


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[slackline]

Cloudy with a Chance of Pain

[slackline]

The drugs don't work

[slackline]

Google AI algorithm has, without a handicap, beaten a professional Go player 

[galpinos]

The drugs don't work

Hmmm, I've got a Seratide Inhaler for asthma.

[slackline]

Constrained Total Energy Expenditure and Metabolic Adaptation to Physical Activity in Adult Humans

[mrjonathanr]

Activity intensity was inversely related to total energy expenditure

 

[slackline]

If you ever need a copy of a paywalled scientific paper

[36chambers]

If you ever need a copy of a paywalled scientific paper

I remember a time when you told me off for suggesting that someone without access to a paper could ask someone with access to get it for them.

[slackline]

Perhaps, although I doubt I will have outright remonstrated the activity since I have thought for a long time that academic publishing needs overhauling and in particular all publicly funded research should be open access.  More likely I will have said that people can get into trouble for doing so and its easier to detect when requests are posted on public forums so its best not posting about it.

The #Icanhazpdf approach avoids that since the interaction is very quickly taken out of public view, but still requires individual input, this takes out the need for human assistance as its automated, plus now its on the Tor network it makes tracking who's using it that bit harder.

And I'm not saying anyone has to use it, just conveying information of its existence.  The decision then falls to the individual.

[Rocksteady]

Gravitational waves. Sounds like this is a hugely significant discovery, with practical application in our ability to observe and understand the universe.

http://www.sciencemediacentre.org/expert-reaction-to-announcement-on-gravitational-waves/

[a dense loner]

A woman newsreader this morning who has quite obviously no talent reading the news with her only attribute being to appeal to a middle aged male audience actually said with a straight face, allowing for surgery etc, that "this news could confirm that Einstein was a genius".

I had to be told to stop staring at the tv.

[slackline]

Scientists are cynical. Can you blame them?

Reporting on...

How do scientists perceive the current publication culture? A qualitative focus group interview study among Dutch biomedical researchers

[the_dom]

I suggest we eat the really fat people

Ketogenic dieters may approve..

[DAVETHOMAS90]

Anyone else going?:

http://www.scienceweeksy.org.uk/event/164

(Link courtesy of Simon Nadin. Thanks Simon  )

First Direct Detection of Gravitational Waves with LIGO

Talk by Ed Daw, Reader in Physics, Sheffield Gravitational Wave Research Group, The University Of Sheffield

Date: Wednesday 9 March 2016

Time: 5:00pm-6:00pm

Venue: The Diamond Building, University of Sheffield, Leavygreave Road, Sheffield, S3 7RD. (Lecture Theatre 1)

...

Exactly 100 years ago, Albert Einstein predicted that waves in the fabric of spacetime propagate across the Universe at the speed of light. The LIGO experiment uses the world's largest and most sensitive laser interferometers to attempt direct detection of these oscillations, which have tiny amplitudes, less than 1/1000 the diameter of a proton!
smaller than the holds on the crux of Mutation! 

[SA Chris]

First Direct Detection of Gravitational Waves with LIGO

Didn't know they used a construction toy?

[Andy F V2.0]

First Direct Detection of Gravitational Waves with LIGO

Didn't know they used a construction toy?

Sod quarks, leptons etc, the classic 1 by 2 is the true building block of the universe.

[petejh]

Scientists are cynical. Can you blame them?

Reporting on...

How do scientists perceive the current publication culture? A qualitative focus group interview study among Dutch biomedical researchers

God (doesn't exist) that makes depressing reading. And sounds just like what a prof friend was saying last year about the competitiveness and publication bias. Glad I can just explore my uninformed layman's opinions and follow my curiosity without any worries of appearing correct!