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The Media's Innumeracy and Sciencific Illiteracy: March 2012
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The Media's Innumeracy and Sciencific Illiteracy. Monday, March 19, 2012. Proteins as small as Neutrons! In the Feb 27 issue of Forbes Magazine, they have a quick, relatively harmless article about a doctor who thinks we should spend more time and money on healthy lifestyles and preventative medicine over, say, classic cancer research. However, toward the end of the article, this little zinger is in there:. The trouble is, tracing proteins is hard to do - they are the size of a single neutron.". Teaching...
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The Media's Innumeracy and Sciencific Illiteracy: April 2010
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The Media's Innumeracy and Sciencific Illiteracy. Monday, April 26, 2010. Just turned me onto this one: No more four or five sided snowflakes, please! The real six sided (always six sided! Ones are beautiful enough:. No big deal, though - right? When the moon is not full, is it still there? Of course it is, but many paintings and drawings will show a crescent moon with a star (or stars) right in the middle of the dark side of the moon. Children's books are some of the worst offenders. For example...A dar...
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The Media's Innumeracy and Sciencific Illiteracy: Tsk Tsk, History Channel
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The Media's Innumeracy and Sciencific Illiteracy. Wednesday, October 19, 2011. Tsk Tsk, History Channel. Tonight, we checked out the History Channel's "How the Earth was Made" (2009). It was humming along until this line about Carbon dating caught my attention "Because of its molecular structure, Carbon 14 decays after a plant has died and ." Ouch! First off, Carbon-14 is an atom, a radioactive isotope of regular carbon and the whole point is that is binds in molecules just like regular Carbon 12.
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The Media's Innumeracy and Sciencific Illiteracy: Innumeracy, Polling Data, and Statistical Models
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The Media's Innumeracy and Sciencific Illiteracy. Thursday, November 15, 2012. Innumeracy, Polling Data, and Statistical Models. It was suppose to be a close election, wasn't it? Sophisticated models like those used by Nate Silver. Actually called it correctly. I had thought that political pundits were saying the election was going to be close as a get-out-the-vote ploy, but according to this recent Scientific American Blog. The pundits really just didn't understand the model. Statistical projections.
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The Media's Innumeracy and Sciencific Illiteracy: January 2012
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The Media's Innumeracy and Sciencific Illiteracy. Sunday, January 8, 2012. Colbert Get 'Em Good. Thanks to Irene who forwarded me this video from the Colbert Report: http:/ www.colbertnation.com/full-episodes/wed-january-4-2012-john-heilemann. From 8:10 to about 8:50 he mocks a reporter who. When the reporter says "Again with the math! I think to myself if the reporter could not pronounce something on the teleprompter, would he say "Again with the spelling! Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Colbert Get Em Good.
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The Media's Innumeracy and Sciencific Illiteracy: September 2012
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The Media's Innumeracy and Sciencific Illiteracy. Sunday, September 23, 2012. Next Town Over: Only 2 Gallons Away! Wired Magazine comes through again on p. 157 of the October 2012 issue (in bold no less): ".and releases 2 joules of force onto the glass -". Joules for energy, Wired; Newtons for force. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Next Town Over: Only 2 Gallons Away! View my complete profile. Http:/ riddicisms.blogspot.com/. My blog of random thoughts and musings. Http:/ ikuoreviews.blogspot.com/.
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The Media's Innumeracy and Sciencific Illiteracy: February 2010
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The Media's Innumeracy and Sciencific Illiteracy. Sunday, February 14, 2010. In today's Boston Globe, in an otherwise insightful book review. The reviewer felt obliged to place the famous Fibonacci Series. 1,1,2,3,5,8,13,.) in the reader's mind by reminding them the series was "made famous by ' The Di Vinci Code. Indeed, just like when you reference Shakespeare, you'd best remind me that he was the main character in that movie "Shakespeare in Love. Or else I might not know who you were talking about!
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The Media's Innumeracy and Sciencific Illiteracy: Colbert Get 'Em Good
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The Media's Innumeracy and Sciencific Illiteracy. Sunday, January 8, 2012. Colbert Get 'Em Good. Thanks to Irene who forwarded me this video from the Colbert Report: http:/ www.colbertnation.com/full-episodes/wed-january-4-2012-john-heilemann. From 8:10 to about 8:50 he mocks a reporter who. When the reporter says "Again with the math! I think to myself if the reporter could not pronounce something on the teleprompter, would he say "Again with the spelling! Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom).
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The Media's Innumeracy and Sciencific Illiteracy: Next Town Over: Only 2 Gallons Away!
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The Media's Innumeracy and Sciencific Illiteracy. Sunday, September 23, 2012. Next Town Over: Only 2 Gallons Away! Wired Magazine comes through again on p. 157 of the October 2012 issue (in bold no less): ".and releases 2 joules of force onto the glass -". Joules for energy, Wired; Newtons for force. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Next Town Over: Only 2 Gallons Away! View my complete profile. Http:/ riddicisms.blogspot.com/. My blog of random thoughts and musings.
