I already wrote an earlier essay about science as crowd source enterprise. Funding initiatives and funding selection of scientific projects, however, have never been transparent to me (even with all the EU announcements and lobbying before setting out the large framework programmes).
Reading now at david-campbell.orgabout a photo project in Afghanistan (Show me more…)

Some fascinating new paper at PLoS ONE

Placebo treatment can significantly influence subjective symptoms. However, it is widely believed that response to placebo requires concealment or deception [...] Placebos administered without deception may be an effective treatment for [irritable bowel symptoms]

I have no idea, how this is working…

I have just subscribed to the junkchart RSS feed that I found during the preparation of my forthcoming talk about data visualization. Well, and here is another spin-off – a picture how wordle sees this blog’ front page

With an ever growing archive of pictures, I have considered recently to buy an account at livebooks as I really like their clean flash templates.
All their demo sites, however loaded awfully slow and produced never ending traffic – both annoying factors for a visitor and inacceptable to this earth’ power consumption.
So I needed an alternative and had to bite that sour apple to reconstruct my own portfolio. (Show me more…)