Posts from — March 2008

More Expensive Placebos Bring More Relief

By BENEDICT CAREY

[From More Expensive Placebos Bring More Relief - New York Times]

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classic… people think they should benefit more, thus they do.

Knowledge Ecology Studies
KE Studies is an online publication that focuses on the creation, dissemination and access to knowledge goods. It is a multidisciplinary journal that draws on a number of specialties: sciences, technologies, public policies, the laws of intellectual property, business, free speech and privacy, telecommunications and other related knowledge disciplines.

[From Knowledge Ecology Studies]

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this looks like an interesting start.

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lord of the rings 2.0

why do you get up in the morning from cat and girl

[From Cat and Girl]

If science is neither cookery, nor angelic virtuosity, then what is it?
Modern societies have tended to take science for granted as a way of knowing, ordering and controlling the world. Everything was subject to science, but science itself largely escaped scrutiny. This situation has changed dramatically in recent years. Historians, sociologists, philosophers and sometimes scientists themselves have begun to ask fundamental questions about how the institution of science is structured and how it knows what it knows. David Cayley talks to some of the leading lights of this new field of study.

[From CBC Radio | Ideas | Features | How To Think About Science]

This is a podcast/radio show on the cbc that interviews many of the leading scholars interested in science and technology studies.

Music special: Five great auditory illusions
14:50 24 February 2008
NewScientist.com news service
Mike Marshall

[From Music special: Five great auditory illusions - being-human - 24 February 2008 - Print Article - New Scientist]

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this is a great set of demonstrations about how our mind works.