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recent bookmarks from jmHeat pump myths2023-03-30T13:18:18+00:00
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/debunking-heat-pump-myths-dr-jan-rosenow/
jmmyths mythbusting heat-pumps heating house homehttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:e4640e264708/Neurosexism: the myth that men and women have different brains2019-09-25T10:46:53+00:00
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-00677-x
jmThe history of sex-difference research is rife with innumeracy, misinterpretation, publication bias, weak statistical power, inadequate controls and worse. Rippon, a leading voice against the bad neuroscience of sex differences, uncovers so many examples in this ambitious book that she uses a whack-a-mole metaphor to evoke the eternal cycle. A brain study purports to discover a difference between men and women; it is publicized as, ‘At last, the truth!’, taunting political correctness; other researchers expose some hyped extrapolation or fatal design flaw; and, with luck, the faulty claim fades away — until the next post hoc analysis produces another ‘Aha!’ moment and the cycle repeats. As Rippon shows, this hunt for brain differences “has been vigorously pursued down the ages with all the techniques that science could muster”. And it has exploded in the past three decades, since MRI research joined the fray. Yet, as 'The Gendered Brain' reveals, conclusive findings about sex-linked brain differences have failed to materialize.
]]>brain men nature women gender sexism neurology neurosexism myths debunkinghttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:dd52aac392c2/Europe Is Warmer Than Canada Because of the Gulf Stream, Right? Not So Fast2013-02-19T23:07:35+00:00
http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/smartnews/2013/02/europe-is-warmer-than-canada-because-of-the-gulf-stream-right-not-so-fast/
jmThe common tale—the one bandied around for more than a hundred years—goes something like this: Warm water flowing to the northeast out of the Gulf of Mexico—the Gulf Stream—cuts across the North Atlantic ocean, bringing extra energy to the Isles and driving up temperatures relative to the comparatively-frigid North Americas. The only problem with this simple explanation, say Stephen Riser and Susan Lozier in Scientific American, is that it doesn’t actually account for the difference.
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