Greg Kochanski

Interesting External Links

• Divest Pittsburgh from fossil fuels.
• Trillium Asset Management's Guide to Divestment ( Extracting Fossil Fuels from Your Portfolio )
• Citizendium (Like Wikipedia, but with expertise.)
• Discriminating between complexity and bullshit.
• Scientific Commons
• Very well-written discussion of nature vs. nurture in language learning.
• photographers seem to be a recent casualty of the fear and storytelling about terrorists.
• Someone else's opinion on problems with the way the world does research.
• British Academy report on copyright in the Humanities. Our report, done for the AHRC also talks about copyright issues.
• Natbib package for BibTeX and LaTeX. Good for bibliographic references.
• There is an alternative to rule by the bean counters. Recognize uncertainty and Guess.
• Net neutrality.
• Thinking about the huge cognitive surplus that has so far been wasted watching TV.
• Are you touched by His Noodly Appendage?
• The Evolutionary Tales. Science and evolution in the form of the Canterbury Tales.
• Irving Langmuir's famous talk on Pathological Science
• What's New: intelligent and honest look at society from the viewpoint of physics. The only problem is that Bob Parks has an axe to grind against space flight, especially manned space flight.
• Fun science songs (including the classic "Oxidative Phosphorylation").
• English spelling and pronunciation. The Chaos, by Gerard Nolst Trenité.
• Free market economics and evolution. An interesting article in the Guardian, which has a good science section.
• Economics and why making extra work doesn't help the economy.
• Good music.
• Bell Laboratories also [here]
• Making comments visible in WordPress.