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Zhu et al. convincingly show that horizontal gene transfer rises in step with antibiotic resistance. Our short interlude of curable disease is all but over, we’ll soon be back to sitting up and praying as our grandparents did. Read the rest of this entry »
Der Versandhändler Amazon hat in der Vorweihnachtszeit – was niemanden überraschen sollte – befristet einen massiven Anstieg der Bestellungen zu verzeichnen. Um dieses Ansturms Herr zu werden stellt er, auch über Leiharbeitsfirmen, eine große Zahl zusätzlicher Aushilfen, auch aus dem Ausland, befristet ein. Dies nahm die ARD zum Anlaß, vom Hessischen Rundfunk eine Fernsehreportage mit schwersten Vorwürfen drehen zu lassen. Read the rest of this entry »
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For decades I have been unmoved by doomsayers, it’s when I read the optimists that I become afraid. Take food. The supply keeps growing faster than population and there’s still lots of room for more intensification – at more than one fossil calory for every calory on the plate and growing. Read the rest of this entry »
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I have grave doubts abouts Chimps’ ability to evaluate abstract tokens correctly, in fact I expect most humans to act differently when using symbolic tokens from what they’d do when actually distributing tangible goods. That said, if Proctor et al.’s result is good enough for Milinski, whom I’ve found always to be exemplary in his rigour, then it’s good enough for me. Read the rest of this entry »
In den ersten Jahrzehnten nach 1945 zeichnete sich Deutschland durch eine außerordentliche Pressevielfalt aus. Einseitigkeiten und Voreingenommenheiten eines Mediums wurden von der Konkurrenz sofort aufgegriffen und richtiggestellt. Heute sind die Zeitungen auf nur wenige Konzerene vereint, scheinbar konkurrierende Lokalzeitungen z. B. im Kölner Raum oder im Ruhrgebiet stammen aus jeweils einer Hand. Read the rest of this entry »
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Castle et al. claim to have excluded confounding cohort effects. I’m not fully convinced. Only a few decades ago it was very rare to interact with anyone commercially you did not expect to deal with many times in the future too. Anonymous strangers were a rare occurrence, one’s grandnieces and grandnephews did not stay out of touch Read the rest of this entry »
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The exact equality between male and female results seems a dead giveaway that something must be fishy in Gregoricka & Sheridan’s result. Looking at the urban setting of Jerusalem I expect the agriculture in its surroundings to have been quite intensive with lots of manuring. No samples of grain were measured and it’s rather probable that they and the bread baked from them were elevated in heavy nitrogen Read the rest of this entry »
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The distribution of radiocarbon dates shows characteristic peaks and troughs stemming not from true temporally denser or looser clustering of finds but are artifacts of the calibration curve. Armit et al. offer a new method for trying to extract the signal from the data.
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Looking at Lourenco et al.’s figure 3 their correlation between guessing precision and mathematical aptitude depends on very few outliers alone and is completely absent for the bulk of the data. Their claimed difference between geometry and arithmetic is patently nonexistent. In all another glaring example of a non-result.
I fully endorse Zorzi et al.’s remark in their reply to Skottun and Skoyles. The journals are full of purely statistically valid but practically meaningless results Read the rest of this entry »
