Let’s talk about lay research, one of the cornerstones of science, and reproducibility, another, and doing one’s research and homework…
Category: Science
I used to be a paid scientist (Grad school, research fellowship). Speciality: Physical Chemistry. I also grew up a scientist with a scientist Dad. One of my summer jobs was doing plant tissue cloning work for/with my Dad. This was before scientists could clone animals or animal or human tissue, so it was pretty cutting edge! Anyway, since I’m a geek, I have lots of Opinions and geekeries about science.
Toxic Masculinity, the Real Scoop on What it’s Like to be a Man in it, and Related Thoughts
Let me start by laying my cards out and saying why I’m writing this. I was assigned male at birth.…
Statistics – This could be you! – Bayesian Conditional Probability and Medical Tests
As many of you know, I’m taking, for career change and self improvement, a certified curriculum offered by Columbia University…
The notability of $latex (82,000)_{10}$
The title is meant to read , but WordPress’s Jetpack Plugin’s Beautiful Math component doesn’t execute latex markup in the…
Visual Rhetoric – Some feedback for MSNBC
Over the years, MSNBC has been using and reusing a particular visual rhetorical style for presenting job growth numbers since…
Measuring and Calibration – Science Geek Series
A lot of bakers and chefs and chemists will tell you that they’re in the same business. So, in a…