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Jean Lievens: Adriend Truille on Crowdsourcing Science (YouTube 5:21) – Humans Beat Computers and Learn Faster Than Computers

From www.youtube.com – February 10, 8:55 PM Can gaming cure disease? By creating games like EteRNA for protein folding and nano-engineering, Adrien Treuille and his colleagues are outsourcing research, each week scoring and then actually synthesizing top players’ work. By studying players’ strategies, scientists can improve their computer modeling while also creating new ways to …

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Anthony Judge: Metascience Enabling Upgrades to the Scientific Process

Metascience Enabling Upgrades to the Scientific Process Beyond Science 2.0 in the light of polyhedral metaphors? Introduction Enhanced simulation of scientific processes Topography of the challenges of humanity Reconsidering the imaginary unit (i) — the “fudge factor” of science Symbolic implications: ICSU as a case study Psychosocial coherence as a resonance hybrid? Global conversation and …

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Reflections: Policy Makers and Social Science — Distant & Lacking Value-Added Decision-Support

Carnegie and the Stimson Center are exploring the distant and largely dysfunctional relationship between policy makers and the social sciences. This is an important topic that could usefully be expanded to explore the similar distance between government and the other information tribes.* Below are two seminal references in this area. Carnegie Stimson National Security Programs …

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M. Johanna Smith: Science of Water Being Undermined by USG and EPA — Poisoned Water is Government Policy

At the August 2012 Gordon Research Center Conference on DBPs of Chloraminated Drinking Water Systems multiple researchers presented material regarding the ulra carcinogenic DBPs of chloraminated water. In an extraordinary and draconian measure, EPA had one of their own researchers taken into federal remand. Dr. Susan Richardson At the time the then EPA Risk Management Lab …

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Stephen E. Arnold: Data Science Explained With an Infograpic [Science without Art Tends to be Stupid]

Data Science Explained With an Infographic Data Science is a hot career. Even though data scientists have been around for decades, but it is only the proliferation of new devices and data streams that have brought the career to the Internet spotlight. Data Science is more than monitoring reports about data or even the big …

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Naomi Klein: How science is telling us all to revolt

Posted by Contributing Editor Berto Jongman Naomi Klein: How science is telling us all to revolt Is our relentless quest for economic growth killing the planet? Climate scientists have seen the data – and they are coming to some incendiary conclusions. By Naomi Klein NewStatesman, 29 October 2013 In December 2012, a pink-haired complex systems …

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