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Stephen Sekula (steve)'s status on Saturday, 21-Mar-2015 11:22:11 EDT
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Coffee? yes, please. https://chirp.cooleysekula.net/attachment/1738 -
Stephen Sekula (steve)'s status on Saturday, 21-Mar-2015 11:11:55 EDT
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--> Stephen Sekula :: Mini black holes and parallel universes at the LHC. So low expectations, then? http://status.hackerposse.com/url/6920 SCIENTISTS conducting a mindbending experiment at the Large Hadron Collider next week hope to connect with a PARALLEL UNIVERSE outside of our own. 2015 Sat Mar 21 10:09 -18000 :comment1 Stephen Sekula :: We like to keep expectations lo… -
Stephen Sekula (steve)'s status on Saturday, 21-Mar-2015 00:21:55 EDT
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Good to be home again. -
Stephen Sekula (steve)'s status on Friday, 20-Mar-2015 22:41:58 EDT
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Yay! Landed in Dallas. Journey home, almost done. -
Stephen Sekula (steve)'s status on Friday, 20-Mar-2015 18:42:00 EDT
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Boarded flight home from Seattle to Dallas. #LRT2015 -
Stephen Sekula (steve)'s status on Friday, 20-Mar-2015 14:32:12 EDT
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The use of the word "allopathic" is a red flag for pseudoscience and nonsense. Tries to make "evidence-based, scientific medicine" just seem like one choice of many. http://www.smu.edu/Dedman/Academics/InstitutesCenters/swcenter/Events/NoonTalks/Seman -
Stephen Sekula (steve)'s status on Friday, 20-Mar-2015 14:32:02 EDT
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Pseudoscience and SMU: talk tries to make distinction between "evidence-based, scientific medicine" and "medicine." No such distinction. http://www.smu.edu/Dedman/Academics/InstitutesCenters/swcenter/Events/NoonTalks/Seman -
Stephen Sekula (steve)'s status on Friday, 20-Mar-2015 11:52:28 EDT
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Last day of #LRT2015. We'll be leaving a bit early because we made our travel plans before the schedule of the conference was finalized. -
Stephen Sekula (steve)'s status on Thursday, 19-Mar-2015 18:32:42 EDT
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A gorgeous view of Mt. Ranier from near the mall by the Library at UW. https://chirp.cooleysekula.net/attachment/1734 -
Stephen Sekula (steve)'s status on Thursday, 19-Mar-2015 18:02:29 EDT
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Biology meets physics: microorganisms huge source of dimethyl polonium in groundwater. Filter water with care for sensitive experiments! #LRT2015 -
Stephen Sekula (steve)'s status on Thursday, 19-Mar-2015 15:22:37 EDT
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DEAP light guides (shown here) and acrylic vessel are things of beauty. #LRT2015 https://chirp.cooleysekula.net/attachment/1733 -
Stephen Sekula (steve)'s status on Thursday, 19-Mar-2015 14:03:03 EDT
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Dr. Christofferson walks us through the intricate procedure for electroforming pure copper for Majorana. Copper grows at 1mm/month! https://chirp.cooleysekula.net/attachment/1732 -
Stephen Sekula (steve)'s status on Thursday, 19-Mar-2015 13:02:59 EDT
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A common story at #LRT2015: A company grows crystals for you. The crystals are low background. You ask why. The company can't say. In order to get better crystals, which the company cannot produce, the scientists then have to reinvent what the company did, do it better, and then transfer R -
Stephen Sekula (steve)'s status on Thursday, 19-Mar-2015 11:23:53 EDT
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Texas set to allow college students to carry concealed weapons on campus http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/mar/19/texas-college-students-carry-concealed-weapons-campus -
Stephen Sekula (steve)'s status on Thursday, 19-Mar-2015 10:43:11 EDT
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Last evening's poster session at #LRT2015 was hands down one of the finest organized I have ever seen. -
Stephen Sekula (steve)'s status on Thursday, 19-Mar-2015 10:43:06 EDT
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Mt. Ranier at sunrise. You gotta love a good, slumbering volcano. https://chirp.cooleysekula.net/attachment/1730 -
Stephen Sekula (steve)'s status on Thursday, 19-Mar-2015 10:42:58 EDT
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A view over the UW campus at sunrise, with Mt. Ranier in the background. https://chirp.cooleysekula.net/attachment/1729 -
Stephen Sekula (steve)'s status on Thursday, 19-Mar-2015 10:38:44 EDT
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@steve The speaker who mentioned thus study at this conference pointed out that it was an effort to gather solid information to assess rumors, nearly all of which have been found to be misinformation. -
Stephen Sekula (steve)'s status on Thursday, 19-Mar-2015 01:03:01 EDT
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Shared from RSS: "Mayisha and Matthew Present Their Work at LRT2015 - 1" https://media.cooleysekula.net/u/sekula/m/mayisha-and-matthew-present-their-work-at-lrt2015-1/ ( Feed URL: https://media.cooleysekula.net/u/sekula/atom/ ) -
Stephen Sekula (steve)'s status on Thursday, 19-Mar-2015 00:21:54 EDT
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--> Stephen Sekula :: "We don't understand statistics, so you can't use that tool here." --BASP So much for your 5-sigma higgs particle. https://www.facebook.com/unsupportedbrowser Peer-reviewed journals have largely insisted on P values as a standard of worthiness. But now the editors of one journal have banned the statistical tool. 2015 Wed Mar 18 23:14 -18000 :comment1 Stephen Sekula :: 8 sigma. Suck it.