remote controlled cockroach A Kickstarter launched a couple of days ago is already half way to letting you control a cockroach with your phone, but is this ethical?I’m not sure where to begin on the ethics of this. On the up side, inspiring kids to learn about technology such as this could directly lead to promising careers resulting in the next generation of treatments. On the down side, we’re seeing completely uncontrolled experimentation on the brains of …

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Panopticom Is big brother watching you?A spine chilling new documentary addresses the myriad of new tools for surveillance that are now being put to use in the the UK’s capital city.

We learn of the case of a French man whose home was raided and who still remains on a terrorist watch list eight years later because algorithms in …

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Measles Epidemic cover One man, a media circus and an epidemicWith the Welsh measles epidemic only now beginning to slow I thought now would be a good time to repost …

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Statistical significance chasing A borderline definite marginally mild notably numerically increasing suggestively verging on significant resultMatthew Hankins over at Psychologically Flawed has harvested an amusing list of quotes from studies that failed to find a significant result..

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Mystery of the missing experiments The mystery of the missing experimentsCan experimental findings look too good to be true?
Last week I wrote a blog post about some experiments showing a counterintuitive finding regarding how the need to urinate affects decision making. It’s since been brought to my attention that these experiments (along with dozens of others) have …

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