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Scientific Clearing House
http://sciencehouse.wordpress.com/
In the past, scholars could gather in coffee houses and talk about the latest scientific or mathematical discoveries. The goal of Scientific Clearing House is to provide a venue for such discourse.
LATEST ARTICLES ( 294 )
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Catch-22 of Our Era
The screen on my wife's iPhone was shattered this week and she had not backed up the photos. The phone seems to still be functioning otherwise so we plugged it... Read more
Posted on 08 August 2018 BIOLOGY, SCIENCE -
Mosquito Update
It's been about two weeks since I first set out my bucket, although I had to move it to a less obtrusive location. Still no signs of mosquito larvae, although... Read more
Posted on 08 August 2018 BIOLOGY, SCIENCE -
The Mosquito Experiment
This month, Baltimore, along with much of the mid-Atlantic has been inundated with rain. It was already the rainiest July on record as of last week. My yard ha... Read more
Posted on 30 July 2018 BIOLOGY, SCIENCE -
The Wealth Threshold
The explanation for growing wealth inequality proposed by Thomas Piketty in his iconic book Capital in the Twenty-First Century, is that the rate of growth... Read more
Posted on 29 December 2017 BIOLOGY, SCIENCE -
Equifax Vs Cassini
The tired trope from free market exponents is that private enterprise is agile, efficient, and competent, while government is prodding, incompetent, and... Read more
Posted on 20 September 2017 BIOLOGY, SCIENCE -
Science and the Vampire/zombie Apocalypse
It seems like every time I turn on the TV, which only occurs when I'm in the exercise room, there is a show that involves either zombies or vampires. From my... Read more
Posted on 11 September 2017 BIOLOGY, SCIENCE -
The End of (video) Reality
I highly recommend listening to this Radiolab podcast. It tells of new software that can create completely fabricated audio and video clips. This will take... Read more
Posted on 01 August 2017 BIOLOGY, SCIENCE -
The Robot Human Equilibrium
There has been some push back in the media against the notion that we will "soon" be replaced by robots, e.g. see here. But absence of evidence is not evidence... Read more
Posted on 30 July 2017 BIOLOGY, SCIENCE -
Audio of SIAM Talk
Here is an audio recording synchronized to slides of my talk a week and a half ago in Pittsburgh. I noticed some places where I said the wrong thing such as... Read more
Posted on 24 July 2017 BIOLOGY, SCIENCE -
Talk at SIAM Annual Meeting 2017
I gave an invited plenary talk at the 2017 Society of Applied and Industrial Mathematics Annual Meeting in Pittsburgh yesterday. My slides are here. I talked... Read more
Posted on 16 July 2017 BIOLOGY, SCIENCE -
From Creativity to Anxiety
When I was a child, the toy Lego was the ultimate creative experience. There were basically 4 or so different kind of blocks from which you could connect... Read more
Posted on 03 June 2017 BIOLOGY, SCIENCE -
Trade and Income Inequality
The conventional wisdom in economics is that trade is mutually beneficial to all parties and the freer the trade the better. However, as David Autor and... Read more
Posted on 13 May 2017 BIOLOGY, SCIENCE -
The Demise of Barnes and Noble
Near the end of the twentieth century, there was a battle between small bookstores and the big chains like Barnes and Noble and Borders, typified in the film... Read more
Posted on 13 March 2017 BIOLOGY, SCIENCE -
Productivity, Marginal Cost, and Monopoly
In any introductory economics class, one is introduced to the concept of supply and demand. The price of a product is expressed as a function of the number of... Read more
Posted on 10 March 2017 BIOLOGY, SCIENCE -
Talk at Maryland
I gave a talk at the Center for Scientific Computing and Mathematical Modeling at the University of Maryland today. My slides are here. I apologize for the... Read more
Posted on 09 March 2017 BIOLOGY, SCIENCE -
Technology and Inference
In my previous post, I gave an example of how fake news could lead to a scenario of no update of posterior probabilities. However, this situation could occur... Read more
Posted on 23 January 2017 BIOLOGY, SCIENCE -
Fake News and Beliefs
Much has been written of the role of fake news in the US presidential election. While we will never know how much it actually contributed to the outcome, as I... Read more
Posted on 13 January 2017 BIOLOGY, SCIENCE -
CO2 and the Return of the Dinosaurs
The dinosaurs lived during the Mesozoic Era, which was divided into the Triassic, Jurassic, and Cretaceous Periods. Many of the iconic dinosaurs that we know an... Read more
Posted on 18 December 2016 BIOLOGY, SCIENCE -
Are Humans Successful Because They Are Cruel?
According to Wikipedia, the class Mammalia has 29 orders (e.g. Carnivora), 156 families (e.g. Ursidae), 1258 Genera (e.g. Ursus), and nearly 6000 species (e.g.... Read more
Posted on 09 December 2016 BIOLOGY, SCIENCE -
Insider Trading
I think one of the main things that has fueled a backlash against the global elites is the (correct) perception that they play by different rules. When they mak... Read more
Posted on 16 November 2016 BIOLOGY, SCIENCE