Friday, January 21, 2011

Links

  1. Jacopo della Quercia at Cracked.com: 5 Ridiculous Things You Probably Believe About Islam.

  2. Scicurious at Neurotic Physiology: Friday Weird Science: The Magnificent Mammal Menage a Trois. It's about wild whale sex.

  3. Apoorva Mandavilli in Nature: Peer review: Trial by Twitter: "Blogs and tweets are ripping papers apart within days of publication, leaving researchers unsure how to react."

  4. Pam Belluck in NYTimes: To Really Learn, Quit Studying and Take a Test. "Test-taking actually helps people learn, and it works better than repeated studying, according to new research."

  5. Christine Carter at The Berkeley Blog: How to raise an unhappy child.

1 comment:

  1. Peer-review , Trial by twitter is interesting article .

    Particularly in the Social science like sociology , economics or management - it will extremly relevant to have some platform to collate the comments on the newly published papers....

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