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The Greatest Show on Earth! A music video about Evolution
It’s extraordinary how a simple music video can so well convey the wonders of science. A musical celebration of the wonders of biology, including evolution, natural selection, DNA, and more. Featuring...
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Synthetic Biology
Science reporting is hard, and mistakes can be made. But I never expected the BBC could cover a subject this badly. Back in March, David Shukman (BBC Science Editor) published a short report on...
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Watts Up With YouTube Views
Anthony Watts often pokes fun at campaigns, or any public messaging, about global warming. This time he did it with the video in which president Obama states he’s going to announce his climate plans:...
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Why You Shouldn’t Use Alexa Traffic Statistics
Watts is known for using Alexa web traffic statistics to show how well his website is doing compared to other blogs. Often to boast he’s doing far better than for example Skeptical Science or Real...
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The Label It Yourself Campaign
As my regular readers will know I try to keep tabs on what is happening on social media in regards to climate change and global warming. Sometimes because of that I (eventually) notice other odd things...
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Watts Up With Alexa Statistics
Anthony Watts is very fond of using Alexa statistics for showing how popular his blog is. Especially when he can use it to show that his blog is more popular than websites that spread good information...
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This Is Why You Shouldn’t Use Alexa
That Alexa isn’t good at giving reliable statistics is well known in IT. Any website like Alexa that tries to estimate traffic to a website in a similar way via indirect measurements will encounter the...
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I Do So Like Monsanto And GMOs!
Don’t lynch me yet, there’s a point to the title I picked. It has to do with an image I saw on my Facebook feed that uses a drawing from a Dr Seuss story: I don’t know who originally made this image,...
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Another Reason To Not Use Alexa Statistics: They’re Too Easy To Manipulate
I’ve already written several blog posts about Alexa and how notoriously bad its statistics are. Not really surprising that they are bad if you know how the data for those statistics is gathered. For...
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Climate Science Deniers Are Again Trying To Game The Bloggies
Those that reject the science behind global warming have nothing to back them. They can’t rely on the scientific literature as it clearly shows they’re wrong. They can only point to the odd flawed...
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