Wednesday, November 02, 2011

Links


  1. Three Biggest Myths about Women in Tech by Allison Scott and Freada Kapor Klein.

  2. Do Government School Teachers in Tamil Nadu educate their own children in Government schools or Private Schools? by Satyanarayan at Education in India.

  3. The New Einsteins Will Be Scientists Who Share, adapted from Michael Nielsen's Reinventing Discovery: The New Era of Networked Science.

  4. Chart: One Year of Prison Costs More than One Year at Princeton by Brian Resnick at The Atlantic.

2 Comments:

  1. Anonymous said...

    Re. #3:

    So, the answer to the FTL neutrino puzzle should be here any time now---on some or the other blog---shouldn't it?

    (Don't accuse me of cynicism---I didn't mention finding cure for cancer via collaborative blogging. (...Yes, I am now happy to hit the "Post Comment" button.))


    --Ajit
    [E&OE]

  2. MP said...

    Here is something even more revolutionary -- non-scientists, including 13-year-olds, solving complex scientific problems, and getting the results published in Nature. Sharing is only part of the problem, the real key is re-representation of the problems.

    http://www.wired.com/medtech/genetics/magazine/17-05/ff_protein?currentPage=all

    http://fold.it/portal/blog?page=1

    http://www.cs.washington.edu/homes/zoran/NSMBfoldit-2011.pdf