Archive for October 6th, 2006

Rethinking Peer Review

October 6, 2006Troy Hicks No Comments »

Given the discussion that the Critical Studies had earlier this week about Morville and folksonomies — and what counts when doing background reading for research — this article from Wired makes me rethink how the research gets done in the first place.
Scientists frustrated by the iron grip that academic journals hold over their research can [...]

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Re: Popular Media Representations of Scientific Methods

October 6, 2006Troy Hicks No Comments »

Steve asks, “can you think of any examples of representations of “scientific method” in popular media?”
I am not often on the look out for this, let alone watching TV, so I am sure that there are some examples that are embedded in shows other than CSI that have implications for you.
However, the one show that [...]

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