Shownotes

Spurious correlations
PowerPoint karaoke
Chatting about science communication with Jen Briselli. Okay...maybe it's more than a chat.

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Houdini holding court with Lincoln, just because he could.

The history of music history
Designing for culture education
Carbon sinks and mangroves
Debunking misconceptions and myths

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We use Fermi in honor of tortillas

In this episode we get a little silly, but we still manage to let Alex Reinhart raise the bar. It's our first interview!

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Writing for culture research
Defining “population”

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Computer privacy
Kevin Trudeau
Selling fake cures
Research methods
Validity
Reliability
Sound wave manipulation

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Troops_of_the_Eight_nations_alliance_1900.jpg

Culture research
Turning images into sound
False positives come from sampling error
Review standard deviation
Stopping Rules
Regression to the mean
Conjunction fallacy
Images into sound for the blind

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Information_visualization

Someone is wrong on the internet.
Apologies to Neuron, and maybe Maher...maybe.
More base rate fallacy.
Multiple comparisons problem.
Alpha correction.
Mars' jelly donut.
Sad science facts.
Julian Treasure.

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Ice and snow in Portland, Ken Ham and Bill Nye, Bill Maher is Rush Limbaugh Left, Publication Bias, Mice in a dark room, and Guy Hammond makes robots that make music

 

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