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A recent post on this blog concerned the posting of our paper MIP*=RE on the arXiv and gave a personal history of the the…
A recent post on this blog concerned the posting of our paper MIP*=RE on the arXiv and gave a personal history of the the…
Brian Feldman has a newsletter called BNet and on May 30th, he published an insightful and whimsical take on facts and…
The Global South is not anywhere specific, neither a specific race, ethnicity, gender or epistemology, but everyone who is a…
Errors in published work are easily propagated. And senior people make mistakes as well. A recent paper in AMPPS by someone who…
How much bandwidth do we have? It seems that each of our eyes has 1 megabyte per second. That’s about 100GB per day assuming…
Also this week: Twitter trolls are so 11th century, sloppy citations and what to do about them, the attributes of philosophers…
Allan Dafoe writes: I just came across this article about academic urban legends spreading because of sloppy citation practices.
By Brian D. Earp (@briandavidearp) * Note: this article was first published online at Quillette magazine. The official version…
By Brian D. Earp (@briandavidearp) * Note: this article was first published online at Quillette magazine. The official version…
The man who set the world record for fastest drive across the US did it in 28 hours 50 minutes in a heavily modded car, with…
Many of the messages presented in respectable scientific publications are, in fact, based on various forms of rumors. Some of…
A great cultural epidemiology story by Ole Bjørn Rekdal, "Academic urban legends," in Social Studies of Science (2014, 44(4)…
Short post today. Go and read this paper: Academic urban legends (Rekdal 2014). It’s open access, and an easy and fascinating…