Who Googled You? This Website Knows
Kind of a fun site, got a B+ score, not bad 
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Friday, 4 May 2012
Thursday, 3 May 2012
Analytical Trend Troubles Scientists
Very interesting article on observational vs experimental studies.
"In 2010, two research teams separately analyzed data from the same U.K. patient database to see if widely prescribed osteoporosis drugs increased the risk of esophageal cancer. They came to surprisingly different conclusions.
One study, published in the Journal of the American Medical Association, found no increase in patients' cancer risk. The second study, which ran three weeks later in the British Medical Journal, found the risk for developing cancer to be low, but doubled. Which conclusion was correct?
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WSJ link
In case you do not have a subscription, here is the PDF
Average space between airline seats
The average space between economy airline seats has decreased by 3 inches since 1978. All to put more seats, to supposedly let us buy tickets at cheaper prices. Bah, don't buy it.
Wednesday, 2 May 2012
Edvard Munch's The Scream
Edvard Munch's The Scream fetched $120 million today from an anonymous buyer at Sotherby's New York. A new world record for a work of art sold at auction.
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