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Book Reviews

Wednesday, September 21, 2005

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Most scientific papers are probably wrong: "Assuming that the new paper is itself correct, problems with experimental and statistical methods mean that there is less than a 50% chance that the results of any randomly chosen scientific paper are true."

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Mac RSS Readers: The Good, The Bad, The Very Ugly: "Tiger Safari's use of RSS gives Mac users a way to check on dozens of web sites without using a standalone RSS reader. Is that good, or bad?"

Writing with a broken wrist -- Comment()
Last week I broke my wrist. I had an accident with the bicycle - I fell off while avoiding another biker suddenly appearing in front of me. The wrist in a cast for 4-6 weeks, so typing and many other things are twice as hard as previously. Today I'm having a check to see if the wrist needs to be operated or is it healing properly.

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Camera phones will be high-precision scanners: "New software, developed by NEC and the Nara Institute of Science and Technology (NAIST) in Japan, goes further than existing cellphone camera technology by allowing entire documents to be scanned simply by sweeping the phone across the page."