Thanks to Brian Lim.

Assorted Links

animals that live with us are getting fat
Drug trials in poor countries. “The F.D.A. does so little monitoring [in these countries] that the [drug] companies can pretty much do and say what they want.”
New York obesity researcher re-invents numerical integration

Thanks to Gary Wolf and Bruce Charlton.

Thanks to Oskar Pearson.

Plagiarism by Dr. Shervert Frazier, a Harvard psychiatrist and at one point director of the National Institute of Mental Health
David Shenk on talent & genius: why rely on homilies when we have data?
Should practice tests have warning labels? Apparently. A University of Central Florida business professor creates a test using a test bank, tells students he wrote the test, and says students who studied questions from the test bank are cheaters!

Thanks to Vic Sarjoo.

Fermented salsa
Vitamin D and schizophrenia
Gut bacteria control fruit fly sex. “Imagine taking a course of antibiotics and finding your sexual preferences have changed.”
The New York Times misdescribes Japan. Eamonn Fingleton is an excellent writer.

Thanks to Paul Sas, Anne Weiss, and JR Minkel.

Thanks to Peter Spero, Dave Lull, and David Kramer.

meaning-based computing
academic plagiarism. “One of my own students turned in a paper on “Great Expectations” which was an exact copy of Dorothy Van Ghent’s essay – an essay so celebrated that I recognized it right off and, at the first opportunity, raised the issue with my student. “Shit!” she said. “I paid seventy-five dollars for that.” “
The dark side of fermentation. I am very pleased to see that Edward Jay Epstein is writing a book about the 9-11 Commission.

Thanks to Robin Barooah, Paul Sas, and Brent Pottenger.

Category: Assorted Links