Monthly Archives: August 2010

Links 8/19/10

Happy Thursday. Some links for you.
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About Gazelles, Elephants, Blue Whales and Dodos: A Microbial Perspective

Have we reached the point where advances in sequencing capacity are yielding decreasing marginal returns?
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Some More Thoughts About Value-Added Teacher Evalution

Not convinced by the stats, and overestimating teacher effects.
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Links 8/18/10

Links for you.
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Obama’s Bait-and-Switch on Social Security

Anatomy of a sucker play.
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Letters About Hate-Mongering Science Bloggers

The Sunday Magazine printed two letters, both critical of Heffernan, which suggests to me, that there were very few, if any, supporters of Heffernan’s position.
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Some Concerns About the LA Times’ Attempt at Teacher Evaluation

If the data, including the raw scores, are released to the public, this will be a very interesting exercise. As currently constructed, though, I’m concerned the shoddy approach could do more harm than good.
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Links 8/16/10

Alford: What Kind of Science Should Economics Be When It Grows Up? (actually mentions physics envy among other things) Why are there so few female chess grandmasters? Living fossils don’t exist… Other: Michal Kalecki – The Political Aspects of Full … Continue reading

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Regarding Genomics and the Ethics of Data Release, I Declare BLOGWAR!!

The questions we should be working on are too important to be parochial about ownership–and to NIH’s credit, much of the genomics funding reflects this idea.
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Links 8/15/10

Links for you.
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